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Bellisario vs. Strawman – A Response of Sorts to Bellisario
Over at his blog, the Catholic Champion, Matthew Bellisario has decided to characterize his latest assault on a straw man as a response to one of my recent posts (link to Bellisario)(link to my recent post). Bellisario’s headline reads: “Vatican II and the Papacy- No Redefinition.” Well, no kidding. Formally speaking, Vatican II didn’t define…
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The Thomas Jefferson + Creed Hermeneutic
I was (at first) amused to read a post by Mark Olson (Orthodox Church in America) titled “Noetic Noah and the Fluffy Hermeneutic.” Olson rejects large swaths of the historical text of the Old Testament with fluffy statements like “Giants are mythic or noetic creatures” and, referring to the location of the garden of Eden,…
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Response to David Meyer on Sola Scriptura
David Meyer wrote: “At the end of the Sola Scriptura authority tunnel I find a mirror and a clown suit. I’m not going to put it on. Christ either gave us a church that has a single knowable doctrine, or this is all just a big joke.” (source) I answer: I’ve found that the end…
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Typo in English Translation of Canon Law
I happened to be reading through the Vatican website’s English translation of the Code of Canon law and came across an interesting typographic error that appears in numerous places in the code. In those places “over” has been replaced by “offer” (in one instance “offerly” replaces “overly”) – the error even affects Canon 333, the…
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Calvin and the Perpetual Virginity (?) of Mary … plus the Real Francis Turretin
In his commentary on the synoptic gospels, Calvin wrote: And knew her not This passage afforded the pretext for great disturbances, which were introduced into the Church, at a former period, by Helvidius. The inference he drew from it was, that Mary remained a virgin no longer than till her first birth, and that afterwards…
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Rescuing Roman Catholicism from Papalism?
James Carroll has an interesting article in the Boston Globe, in which he argues that Roman Catholicism needs to be rescued from what he perceives as Roman Catholic fundamentalism (link to article). Carroll views Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, as a sort of ringleaders of excessive emphasis on the papacy. Carroll makes some often-overlooked observations.…
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Christ is Risen!
Truly he is Risen! 1Co 15:14 & 20 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. … But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Romans 8:33-34 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?…
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Augustine Against Idolatry
Augustine, commenting on Psalm 75, wrote: “For the cup in the hand of the Lord of pure wine is full of mixed” (ver. 8). Justly so. “And He hath poured out of this upon this man; nevertheless, the dreg thereof hath not been emptied; there shall drink all the sinners of earth.” Let us be…
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Ergun Caner – Son of a Devout Muslim Father
Some new evidence regarding Ergun Caner’s background has come to light (link to evidence). The evidence appears to confirm the central point of my previous discussion (here) namely that Ergun Caner is a real ex-Muslim, the son of a devout Muslim father. While I do invite folks to compare the new evidence above with Caner’s…
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Doug Wilson on Sola Fide
“I hold that a man is justified by the sole instrument of God-given faith, as that faith is placed by the grace of God in the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ alone, He who lived and died in our stead. I maintain that the only legitimate response that a creature may have toward…