Reducing the argument to ‘if not Catholicism, therefore the Great Apostasy’ is a textbook non-sequitur.
In this video, I analyse the recent debate between Catholic apologist Joe Heschmeyer and Mormon apologist Jacob Hansen, and show how his central LDS argument for a “Great Apostasy” commits a fatal logical fallacy: if not Catholicism, then Mormonism. I explain why this reasoning collapses, why the burden of proof is on the one claiming the Church disappeared, and how the historical record actually ends up pointing straight back to Catholicism.
Timestamps
00:00 – Why I watched the Heschmeyer vs. Hansen debate
02:17 – Shifting the burden of proof: Great Apostasy
03:11 – The “new revelation” argument and why it backfires
04:00 – Jesus as the fullness of revelation in Scripture
05:51 – The bank-teller analogy: proving something stopped existing
07:19 – Why Jacob’s argument is a textbook non-sequitur
08:29 – Accidentally providing evidence for Catholicism
09:24 – What evidence a real Great Apostasy would require
10:34 – Why the historical record looks overwhelmingly Catholic
11:39 – Presupposing Mormonism
12:49 – The dilemma that accidentally proves Catholicism
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