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Scripture’s Clarity Confirmed Against Smudges – 2/25
Dave Armstrong has posted a series of “25 Short Arguments on the Difficulties of Perspicuity (Clearness of Scripture for Salvation)” (link) from his book “501 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: Is the Bible the Only Infallible Authority?” I can see that his list of arguments has received nearly a thousand views, so perhaps it makes…
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Scripture’s Clarity Confirmed Against Smudges – 1/25
Dave Armstrong has posted a series of “25 Short Arguments on the Difficulties of Perspicuity (Clearness of Scripture for Salvation)” (link) from his book “501 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: Is the Bible the Only Infallible Authority?” I can see that his list of arguments has received nearly a thousand views, so perhaps it makes…
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Cochlaeus Work On-Line
Further to my last post about the BSB digitization project, one may recall an informal debate that I conducted with Dave Armstrong last January on the issue of a spurious quotation attributed to Luther. The full work of that slanderer Cochlaeus, from which the quotation originated, has been digitized and is available freely on-line, though…
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Misquoting Athanasius
It’s very popular among Rome’s apologists today, to make claims that famous church fathers, those that “Protestants” would have heard of, held to the same views as Rome teaches today. Unfortunately for Catholicism, history is not her friend. So, while occasionally a church father or two will provide some seemingly helpful material for the apologist…
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Reading Material for Mr. David Armstrong
It may be that, for some reason or other, Mr. Armstrong still pops by my blog. If so, I think he’ll get get a kick out of this post (link). Mr. Armstrong’s policy of labeling those who say that Rome teaches another gospel “anti-Catholics,” leads to a conflation between what the author of the linked…
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There is One Mediator and Only One Mediator
In a recent blog post (link), Dave Armstrong (a lay advocate of Catholicism) has made the remarkable argument that “there is one mediator” in 1 Timothy 2:5 does not rule out what Dave calls “mini-mediators.” Dave doesn’t comment on whether “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD,” rules out mini-Jehovahs or whether…
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Rebuttals to Armstrong’s Ten-Step Program Against Sola Scriptura
Today, someone directed me to an article by Dave Armstrong entitled: “A Quick Ten-Step Refutation of Sola Scriptura.” (link to article) I’ll provide his points, and the brief rebuttal: 1. Sola Scriptura Is Not Taught in the Bible The briefest rebuttal is to simply respond: yes, it is taught in the Bible. Mr. Armstrong should…
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Biblical Evidence for the Veneration of Relics Ignored?
Previously, I discussed (and rebutted) the claim that the Scriptural discussion of the transport of Joseph’s bones from Egypt to Canaan was evidence of the veneration of relics in the Old Testament (link). Now, I turn to a second favorite passage that relic-venerators tend to appeal to, as allegedly supporting their position. That passage is…
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Biblical Evidence for Indulgences?
Dave Armstrong (DA), a lay apologist for Rome, asserts that there is “explicit biblical [sic] evidence for all the essential notions behind indulgences” (link to source of discussion) (link to quotation). Initially, it’s worth noting that the explicitness of the “explicit biblical [sic] evidence” is undermined by the fact that it is not for indulgences,…
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What’s Not to Like?
At Dave Armstrong’s blog, a post entitled: “Why is the Catholic Church so Hated?” caught my eye (to give you some background, Dave Armstrong is himself a papist). The format of the post is as follows: 1) A “Presbyterian” woman makes a claim that she sees a lot of “hatred” for “the Catholic Church.” 2)…