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Rome's Meaningless Claim to "Unbroken Chain" Of Succession
The following is an example of Rome’s claim of “unbroken succession” – provided by pope John Paul II: Nevertheless, the Roman Pontiffs have exercised their authority in Rome and, according to the conditions and opportunities of the times, have done so in wider and even universal areas, by virtue of their succeeding Peter. Written documents…
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False Dichotomy Between Infallible Church and "Subjective, Individualistic" Conclusions
Over at the GreenBaggins blog, in a comment box, Roman Catholic Bryan Cross wrote: If we deny that the Church has such a gift [a gift (or charism) of infallibility in matters of faith and morals], then we are left with a subjective, individualistic, “changes hearts” criterion of canonicity, and such a subjective criterion is,…
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World's Worst Serial Killer
No one really knows who the world’s worst serial killer is, and one normally thinks of murderers as being mostly male, but this lady would certainly receive my vote as the most prolific serial killer (link to story). To God be the Glory!
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Innocent III vs. Benedict XVI — Use Scripture as Your Standard Instead
“Here I wish to affirm once more that religion can never justify intolerance or war. We cannot kill in God’s name!” (Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, September 30, 2010, Part 3) Desiring with an ardent desire to liberate the Holy Land from the hands of the ungodly, we decree with the advice of…
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Today's ISI Discussion on Formal Sufficiency
We meandered off into a few other topics related to Roman Catholicism, but the bulk of the discussion was on the formal sufficiency of Scripture (link to mp3). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Formal Sufficiency of Scripture: Early Christian Writers (Guest Series)
Formal Sufficiency of ScriptureStated and Examined from Scripture and the Fathers, with scholarly confirmation regarding the Fathers’ views. In an introduction section (link), we discussed the nature of formal sufficiency that we, the Reformed, affirm. In the next section (link), we saw Scripture’s own testimony to its own sufficiency. If we were simply establishing the…
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Always Remember
The fifth of November is remembered as the day upon which the gunpowder plot, an attempt by a Roman Catholics to blow up the Protestant Parliament, was foiled by the Providence of God. Guy Fawkes was caught on November 5, 1605, and after a few days of torture gave up his co-conspirators and revealed the…
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November 4, 1982 – What Really Happened?
Testimony in Unveiling Islam The Caner brothers’ book, Unveiling Islam states that Jerry Tackett was “an active member at Steltzer Road Baptist Church.” Jerry invited Ergun Caner to revival services there. (Unveiling Islam, p. 18) Unveiling Islam goes on to state that on some unspecified day, which was a Thursday, Ergun came to Christ. Then,…
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Response to Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher
Recently, Bill Maher triumphed over Bill O’Reilly in an interview on Fox news (link to video). Why did Mr. Maher triumph? He triumphed because he exposed Mr. O’Reilly’s inconsistencies. Mr. Maher’s first point was that 60% of Americans believe that the Noah’s ark story is literally true. Mr. O’Reilly stated that he doesn’t know any…
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Scripture has its Own Authority – and Christ Alone is Our Mediator – A Response to Michael Liccione
Roman Catholic Michael Liccione recently provided a comment in the comment box of a Roman Catholic blog that I think highlights two of the problems with Roman Catholic theology: (1) the disparaging of the authority of Scriptures themselves; and (2) the deification of “the Church.” He said: What’s needed is a concrete, communal, continuous locus…