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Patrick’s Pejoratives vs. Rhology’s Writing
Patrick Madrid tweets: “Yet another example of the misguided, myopic #Protestant bluster about #SolaScriptura & #sects. Wow. http://t.co/tkoX1PMw #blind #clueless “ His link takes you to this comment by the redoubtable Rhology. Responding to this: The fact that there are thousands is enough to show sola Scriptura’s fruits: the individual as ultimate interpretive authority of…
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Mark Shea on Me on Hitchens and Fry
Mark Shea seems unhappy (link to his post). He states: Speaking of weird partisanship, here’s yet another Calvinist sitting in the peanut gallery and cheering on the atheists because they happen to be quarreling with Catholics. Better that God be blasphemed than that any slight pettiness of the 16th Century quarrel be abandoned for one…
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Is Roman Catholicism a Force for Good in the World?
The following is a debate featuring Roman Catholics Archbishop John Onaiyekan and MP Anne Widdecombe (Conservative) against Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens. The debate went well for the Negative according to the poll results released during the debate. Patrick Madrid, who brought this to my attention, agreed with Richard Dawkins in characterizing the debate as…
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Blueprint for Reliability Following the Lord’s Example
Gennadius (died about A.D. 496) on James of Nisibis (aka “the Wise”) (died after A.D. 350): “He composed also a Chronicle of little interest indeed to the Greeks, but of great reliability in that it is constructed only on the authority of the Divine Scriptures.” (Gennadius, Supplement to Jerome’s Illustrious Men, Chapter 1) Gennadius (died…
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Blueprints for Anarchy
Patrick Madrid wrote an article attacking Sola Scriptura as though it were a “blueprint for anarchy,” which is the title that he gave to the article (link to article). The phrase is catchy among contemporary Roman apologists, and it should be no surprise then that we sometimes need to respond to these claims. Here are…
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Clarification on the Madrid Issue
A few of the folks who read my blog have taken umbrage with my recent comments (link) regarding Patrick Madrid’s apologetics forum, ironically titled “Speak Your Mind.” Two of those I’ve already addressed in part in a previous post (link) and another has posted comments on his own blog as well (a post creatively titled…
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Patrick Madrid Turtles
One may recall that Patrick Madrid has a web forum called Speak your Mind Apologetics Forum. He uses the URL “SurprisedByTruth” for his web site. I noted with little surprise that he had recently decided to stop my friend who uses the nick “Algo” from speaking his mind and surprising the Roman Catholics in that…
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Response to Steve Ray on the Pseudographic Papyrus of Turin
Introduction As you may recall, we recently identified a spurious quotation from Athanasius that a number of apologists for Rome had been using, including Mr. Steve Ray. Sadly, rather than correct his error and be honest with his readers, Mr. Ray has chosen to pretend the problem doesn’t exist, directing his readers, once again, to…
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Madrid vs. Augustine on Bodily Presence
In a recent post on his blog (link), Mr. Madrid took the time to respond (without naming me) to a post I had presented on the Alpha and Omega Ministries web site http://www.aomin.org/ – but Mr. Madrid couldn’t actually address Augustine’s comment, opting instead to rely on his own assertion and a number of pasted…