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Response to Dave’s "Debate/Informal Discussion" Offer
I) Whereas at sundry times, mostly recently, 1) Dave Wrote: “Tyhe debate ain’t about justification, but about why anti-Catholics think Catholicism ain’t Christian.” (all errors/irregularities in original) [But of course the issue of justification is central to Christianity proper.] 2) And again: “I will resist all attempts to pigeonhole this into yet another Reformed preaching…
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Pretext Illustrated
By this new logo (link). Who was it that said that every heresy seeks to justify itself from Scripture? This is nothing new. The logo is cleverly worded to confuse Protestants (who will think that it means Scripture teaches Catholicism, which it does not) while corresponding to the objective of the author of that blog,…
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JP2 in Flames in the Afterlife
Is this an ironic claim or what (link)? All humor aside, God alone knows the heart. Since I don’t pray to the dead, I don’t have to worry about disembodied spirits trying to motion “stop” (cf. link). But then again, if I didn’t listen to Moses’ prohibition of necromancy and idol-worship, I’m not going to…
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Pray for Rain
Apparently the southeast United States is suffering under an unusually severe drought. More than a few Christian brethren live in that part of the World, and a goodly number of them live off the land as farmers. Pray that God will provide for their material need, in this case of water: (more details) (and especially…
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Response to Pat Condell – With Asides
Pat Condell is an atheist who more or less openly mocks Christianity. Here’s an example (link) NOTE BEFORE CLICKING: Blasphemy is used in the video, so don’t click if that will cause you to stumble. Part of the problem, however, is that Pat Condell, as an atheist is unable to distinguish between Christianity and its…
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Notable Quotable – Non-Responsiveness
The Testimony of the Man “if a man is not willing or able to defend his own arguments, he is not worth all that much time dealing with publicly” (source) Thrice (at least) the man’s arguments were rebutted by the present author (link) (link) (link) (link) The man’s unwillingness or inability to defend his own…
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Misuse of "Anti-Catholicism" Documented
Misuse of “Anti-Catholicism” DocumentedAnd Some Suggestions Made Peter Pike (as quoted by Dave Armstrong) wrote: Calling someone an anti-Catholic is like calling someone an anti-semite. The connotations are the same, and Armstrong fully knows that. Dave Armstrong responded: Sheer nonsense. As I’ve stated a million times now, including to Pike, I use the term simply…
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Armstrong Correctly Predicts …
“… I will hear the usual droning complaints about the length of this paper, and a bunch of hooey about my supposedly straying from the topic, as it is …” (source) (consider it commented, that’s 27 pages if printed on normal paper and adjusting font size up from 8.5 to 12, and there were plenty…
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Reminder to Guardian
An Internet poster named Guardian wrote this post (link) in response to which Dr. White asked him to call into the Dividing Line radio program. Guardian did so, and was much more respectful and reasonable than the brief post linked above would suggest. When Guardian called in on July 17, 2007, and suggested that he…
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Communications to the Departed
From time to time, one hears folks claim that they hold to their views because they found them in the Bible. For example, one hears claims from Roman Catholic apologists that they figured out that Roman Catholic theology was scriptural, and consequently became Roman Catholics. One area where such a claim cannot be true (and…