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Why I'm Against the 150 Mile Fence Suggestion
The Scriptures tell us how various family relations crimes should be punished (all verse references are to Leviticus 20): Cursing Mother or Father – Death (9) For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon…
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The "Here I am" Girl or the "Where were you" Girl?
As reported by the Vatican Information Service, Benedict XVI stated (on 18 May 2012): Mary of Nazareth is the woman of a full and total “Here I am” to the divine will. In her “Yes”, repeated even when faced with the sorrow of the loss of her child, we find complete and profound beatitude”. A)…
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Congratulations to Triablogue
The Triablogue has racked up 10,000 posts. Congratulations! To God be the Glory!
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Quiz – Are You Loving or Unloving?
Defending-Contending has a good post up on the subject of being loving. To God be the Glory!
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Steve Rays' Reasons
Steve Ray, now a Roman Catholic, formerly a Protestant congregant attempted to answer some questions about why he decided to trust the Papal see: I explained my reasons for converting to the Catholic Church in my book Crossing the Tiber and on my Conversion CD. Here I provide a few of the quotations that had…
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Why Men Shouldn't Be Ordained?
I understand the purpose of the top-ten list at this link, identifying supposed reasons that no men should be ordained. That is, the purpose is to take some of the arguments against women’s ordination and try to turn them on their head. Ultimately, the list ends up refocusing us on the real issue why men…
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Minority of IUers Make the Rest Look Bad
It’s interesting watching hopelessly clueless college student “activists” trying to bully Doug Wilson at IU. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lq5AX4lPHQ&w=560&h=315]He does a great job of responding to them. *** Warning, Atheist Speech in the Video *** -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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A Curious Dilemma
A lot of American Presbyterians don’t believe that the papacy is the Antichrist. In fact, the American revisions to the Westminster Confession of Faith allow for both views (he is, and he is not). Confessional Lutherans, like Presbyterians who hold to the original WCF, consider the papacy/pope to be the Antichrist. One might think that…
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Don't Sweat that History Stuff …
Carl Trueman expresses his frustration with attempts to force Roman apologists to confront history: Thus, as all sides need to face empirical facts and the challenges they raise, here are a few we might want to consider, along with what seem to me (as a Protestant outsider) to be the usual Roman Catholic responses: Empirical…