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"We Have Apostolic Tradition"- The Unofficial Catholic Apologist Commentary #10
To a certain extent I’m treading on Mr. James Swan’s toes in posting this episode to the “We Have Apostolic Tradition” series. Mr. Swan had noticed that Roman Catholic apologists often let us know how crucial it is to have an infallible magisterium and church Tradition in order to interpret the Bible correctly. With so…
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Response to Nick on "Censorship" vs. Publicity
Responding to my recent post on Patrick Madrid’s turtling of his apologetics forum (head and legs well in shell), one Roman Catholic seems to have missed the point. Nick writes: “I agree with you, if censorship (via difficult registration) is what is going on, then that’s wrong and Catholics should not be engaging in that.”…
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Response to Nick on "Censorship" vs. Publicity
Responding to my recent post on Patrick Madrid’s turtling of his apologetics forum (head and legs well in shell), one Roman Catholic seems to have missed the point. Nick writes: “I agree with you, if censorship (via difficult registration) is what is going on, then that’s wrong and Catholics should not be engaging in that.”…
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Patrick Madrid Turtles
One may recall that Patrick Madrid has a web forum called Speak your Mind Apologetics Forum. He uses the URL “SurprisedByTruth” for his web site. I noted with little surprise that he had recently decided to stop my friend who uses the nick “Algo” from speaking his mind and surprising the Roman Catholics in that…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 8
In this eighth section of my reflections on my recent debate with Mr. William Albrecht on the veneration of Mary, I respond to a video that Mr. Albrecht put out (link to Albrecht’s video). Since he put out a video, I’ve also provided this response in video form. Mr. Albrecht’s video, after an introduction section,…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 7
This is the seventh section of my reflections on my recent debate on the veneration of Mary with Mr. William Albrecht. This one may discuss a few different miscellaneous points as I try to round up the last of my thoughts on the debate itself. I. No Logical Link Between Mary’s Being Blessed and Mary’s…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection 5a
One Eastern Orthodox reader (he calls himself “orthodox” – we’ll just call him “O”) has provided five points against part 5 of my thoughts on reflection. He may be the only one to think this way, but just in case it may be edifying to others, here are some brief responses to his points: orthodox…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 6
This is the sixth part of some reflections on the recent debate conducted with Mr. Albrecht on the subject of the veneration of Mary. One of the topics that came up briefly in the debate was the subject of calling Mary, the mother of Jesus, “Mother of God.” As I noted, such a title is…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 5
This is the fifth segment of my thoughts about the recent debate I had with Mr. William Albrecht on the subject of the veneration of Mary. In this section, I’ll be discussing the issue of “all generations shall call me blessed” (Luke 1:48), which came up during the debate. One reason that this came up…
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Limited Atonement – Response to OneTrueChurch
In the following video, I respond to a video from “OneTrueChurch” on the topic of Calvinism and Limited Atonement (link). OneTrueChurch calls (in the title of his video) Calvinism a “Heresy” although he does not explain why he thinks that, and picks on Limited Atonement as key to the whole issue of Calvinism (much to…