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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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Response to Hoffer's Inquiries on Christian Liberty
PH wrote: I would like to get your thoughts on the role of the Church in deciding whether to [celebrate] certain holidays or not. PH went on to provide the following: Chapter 21 of The Westminster Confession titled “Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day,” states in part: “The reading of the Scriptures with godly…
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To the Lord, I will not be Celebrating Christ's Birth
As an exercise of my Christian liberty, I will not be celebrating Christ’s birthday on December 25, 2008. I will not be attending a “mass” or any substitute thereof. I do not plan to set aside any business concerns that would interfere with such religious exercises. Instead, by engaging in worldly employments and recreations, I…
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Does Mary's Non-Rosary Usage Miss the Issues?
In a previous post (link), I had mentioned the fact that Mary never prayed the Rosary. It is a point that I made to help folks recognize that the Rosary is a non-apostolic innovation. I got a most peculiar comment on this post from Mr. Greco. The salient part of his comment was: Turretinfan stated:…
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30 Seconds on God's Knowledge of the Future
Team Pyro has a post that takes 30 seconds to read but concisely states one of the arguments against the Arminian world-view (link). I’ve expanded on this same theme in a previous post, entitled, “The Diary” (link). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Criticism of Rome's Celibate Priesthood – Rebuttals to Objections
A while back I had blogged a post on the Married Priest Movement (link), which garnered a variety of criticism, from one guy who insists that I must use the word “dissent” the way he says his church does – to several more interesting comments that I’d like to discuss below. The people are being…
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Christ's Voluntary Death
I greatly enjoyed the following video by Dr. James White, explaining to a Muslim antagonist the voluntary nature of Christ’s death on the cross: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRdmuVEVcM&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] I would add that there is more revelation that declares that Jesus’ sacrifice was voluntary, namely in the prophecy of that great prophet, the prophet Isaiah (prophecying of Jesus…
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Not Something One Would Have Seen in Calvin's Geneva
Vatican politically supports construction of additional mosques in Italy (first link) (second link). One would not see Calvin’s Geneva supporting mosque construction. Frankly, I don’t think one would even see Leo X (author of Exsurge Domine, against Luther) supporting mosque construction. Who would like to claim that this view expressed by the Vatican is fully…
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Update on Dr. White and God's Desire
On today’s Dividing Line radio program, Dr. White provided Tom Ascol’s discussion regarding the decrees of God, and the sense in which we can say that God desires that his commands be obeyed. Ascol also apparently noted that repenting and believing are God’s commands. Dr. White indicated that he agreed with Ascol’s comments. Presumably, this…
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More Batting About On the Blind Quest to Besmirch "Protestantism"
Bellisario, not the biggest fan of rap music (as discussed previously), has decided to try to remedy his previous deficient selection of a rap music video. He now claims, When I posted my last blog article on bad Sacred Music I had several Protestants try and [sic] tell me that it was never used in…