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Response to Jay Dyer on Calvinism (Part 2 of 13)
This is part 2 of the thirteen part series in response to Jay Dyer. The previous part may be found here (link). Jay Dyer says:1) “[A consistent Calvinist must be] Nestorian, in that the Logos cannot assume a fallen human nature.” I answer: a) The Calvinist Position (whether right doctrine or error let Scripture decide)…
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Church Discipline and Holiness
Criticism of “Protestant” church discipline, with a positive example illustrated in this video by Dr. James White (just under 15 minutes long): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPtxSFK9g8&hl=en&fs=1] This is partly to provide balance to my criticism of Rome in these two recent posts (first post) (second post). Notice that Rome is not alone in failing to do proper church…
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SSPX is Back – JP2 heading out? Implications for Unity
The so-called Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is back. Their excommunication has been lifted by Rome. This is an interesting development on several levels. 1) SSPX seems to teach that Vatican II was not infallible From their website (link): Not by reason of the extraordinary magisterium, for it refused to define anything. Pope Paul…
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Response to Jay Dyer on Calvinism (Part 1 of 13)
I had never heard of Jay Dyer before, but he is a non-Calvinist, ex-Protestant. He has eleven claims (source) with respect to what a consistent Calvinist must be. At first, I thought I’d give a quick answer to each and make this a single blog post. However, the more I looked at the issues, the…
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Catholicism’s Double Standard
Officially, Rome is opposed to abortion. Unofficially, prominent pro-abortion politicians are permitted to continue to commune with Rome. Case in point, America’s first papist vice-president, who not only takes communion but receives a standing ovation (link). Nota Bene: he is now the VP, but the communion-taking and standing-ovation-receiving were 2 days before, when he was…
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Latria/Dulia Debate with GNRHead
Mr. Lane Chaplin, who moderated the Latria/Dulia Debate that I had with GNRHead has very kindly hosted it as a full-length video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56NLGlTg1g&hl=en&fs=1] In case you would like to follow along by reading the debate, Matthew Lankford has kindly provided a transcript, to which I have made a few minor edits. If anyone sees ways…
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Response to Benedict XVI on Christmas
No, Benedict XVI did not visit this humble blog. No head of state (to my knowledge) has visited this blog. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2008, Benedict XVI provided some comments that are (perhaps) worth addressing: The birthday of Christ, which we are currently celebrating, is entirely suffused with the light of Mary and, even as…
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The Eucharist
The Thirsty Theologian has pointed me to an excellent article by William Webster on the Romanist view of the Eucharist (link to Webster’s article). Webster provides a very interesting historical analysis of the Eucharist, tracing it from ancient times, through to Trent. In the process, Webster demonstrates that Trent has departed not only from Biblical…
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Many "Saints" Were Wicked Men
The title of this post, “Many ‘saints’ were wicked men,” was one of the Reformers charges against the saint-venerating papists of the day. Off hand I cannot recall the Reformers providing many specific examples. Allow me to provide one: San Simon of Guatemala (reasonably full background). San Simon is an example of a wicked man…
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Can Papists Properly Call Reformed Churches, Churches?
Mr. Paul Hoffer referred to Reformed churches by the rather modernist/pluralist terminology of “faith communities. Mr. Mike Burgess has come to Mr. Hoffer’s aid by suggesting that Mr. Hoffer is just being proper, and that properly Reformed churches cannot be said to be churches because they are not part of the true Church. We deny.…