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The Real Turretin on: The Church of Rome (in his day)
To the same effect Turrettin denies that the modern Church of Rome can, without qualification, be called a true Church of Christ; but to explain his position he says: “The Church of Rome may be viewed under a two-fold aspect, as Christian in reference to the profession of Christianity, and of the evangelical truths which…
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Saint and Sinner – Hard at Work
Saint and Sinner has been hard at work providing well-composed, concise responses what he characterizes as “High Church” arguments: The Infallible Knowledge Argument The Doctrinal Chaos Argument The Argument from Apostolic Tradition and Succession (Related: The Influence of Greco-Roman Culture on Early Christianity) The Argument from Canon Certainty Most of his arguments/assertions seem reasonable. Even…
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Dr. Godfrey on Sola Scriptura
Dr. W. Robert Godfrey provides an excellent introduction to Sola Scriptura (here), one of several key doctrinal issues that separate Reformed Christians from Roman Catholics. To God be the Glory!
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Indulgences for Reading Scripture
One Catholic blogger, who found a cute way to avoid mentioning Dr. White’s name without being offensive, has a post in which he points out that Indulgences can be gained in Roman Catholicism by reading Scriptures. (link) He believes this to be a counter-argument to Dr. White’s point that it is useless for Catholics (given…
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Armstrong vs. Aquinas – Classifying Reformed Christians
As recently noted by the “Shrine for the Holy Whapping,” a Catholic blog, Aquinas quoted with approval, the following (link to source): “We believe that the bodies of the saints, above all the relics of the blessed martyrs, as being the members of Christ, should be venerated in all sincerity” and “If anyone holds a…
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Snow-Covered Dung-Heap – Luther / Langland / Chrysostom?
It’s often claimed (mostly by Roman Catholics) that Luther compared justification to a snow-covered dung-heap. None have to date (and this author’s knowledge) been able to document precisely who originated the phrase, or where it occurs in Luther’s voluminous writings, although at least one guy has given it a shot. Considering that we recently demonstrated…
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2 Thessalonians 2:15 – Responding to "Orthodox"’s Counter-Objections
One reader of the blog, “Orthodox,” has provided some counter-objections to the rebuttals I’ve presented so far on the abuse of 2 Thessalonians 2:15. I think “Orthodox” is a bit confused, as some of his objections have already been answered in earlier posts. For example, “Orthodox” seems to think that he can use a verse…
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Two Methods of Apologetics towards Catholics
Passionately (link). The link is to a Catholic blog, in which is embedded a video of a man dressed a Catholic priest shouting a message of repentance to an assembled congregation of Catholics, apparently during their service. The audio is somewhat indistinct – a combination of amateur recording equipment and lousy acoustics / camera location.…
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Comparing the Mass to Animal Sacrifices
Reginald, who had been providing some interaction on 2 Thessalonians 2:15 appears to have lost interest in that discussion because he didn’t like this comment I made in passing in another (completely unrelated) discussion: As to (1), the application to transubstantiation is too easy. So, I’ll leave it at that. Reginald doesn’t really explain why…
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2 Thessalonians 2:15 – Additional Clarification
This is the third post in a series on 2 Thessalonians 2:15 (main post) (comment answered – additional examples). Reginald has provided some additional comments in a new post (link). Preliminary Clarifications Before going through Reginald’s comments in detail, I think it would be worthwhile to address a couple matters briefly and generally. 1. I…