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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 25/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 25/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 25) If Christianity is a “book religion,” how did it flourish during the first 1500 years of Church history…
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You Cannot Balance Out Sins with Virtues
I recently came across an article from “CathNews” that “Australia is the ‘most sinful’ nation on earth.” (link to article) There are some obvious problems with a methodology that uses plastic surgery as the measure of pride, but I’d like to talk about the reaction provided the article. A Melbourne priest named Bob Maguire responded:…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 24/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 24/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 24) How were the bishops at Hippo and Carthage able to determine the correct canon of Scripture, in spite…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 23/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 23/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 23) Why do Protestants follow postapostolic Jewish decisions on the boundaries of the Old Testament canon, rather than the…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 5)
[Cont’d from previous section] Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 5) Continuing to analyze the problem with Bryan’s argument, we might characterize the problem as Bryan wanting to get a…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 22/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 22/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 22) Why do Protestant scholars recognize the early Church councils at Hippo and Carthage as the first instances in…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 21/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 21/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 21) Who in the Church had the authority to determine which books belonged in the New Testament canon and…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 20/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 20/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 20) How did the early Church evangelize and overthrow the Roman Empire, survive and prosper almost 350 years, without…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 19/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 19/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 19) Protestants usually claim that they all agree “on the important things.” Who is able to decide authoritatively what…
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Response to Rev. Paul T. McCain regarding Smalcald Articles
Rev. Paul T. McCain (a Lutheran [LCMS] pastor) wrote: Don’t misunderstand. Luther is perfectly clear elsewhere that he does not deny that Roman Christians are still Christians; the question is whether the Roman Pontiff is the voice of the Church and whether the curia and bishops submissive to him are the voice of the Church.…