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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 2
Not every point that Mr. Albrecht raised during the debate was as unusual as his “titular form” argument addressed in my previous comment (link). For example, Mr. Albrecht made at least some oblique reference to one typical argument that we hear from Roman Catholics: the argument that Jesus honored his mother consistent with Jewish law.…
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Bellisario Providing Example of Mistakes to Avoid
How not to argue for Roman Catholicism – an example from Mr. Matthew Bellisario (link). Here are a few tips to avoid Mr. Bellisario’s mistakes (with a video presentation of the 10 points below): 10) If you’re going to cite statistics, don’t cite statistics that actually show Roman Catholic sexual abuse at about twice the…
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Veneration of Mary Debate – Thoughts on Reflection – Part 1
There were a few issues that arose during the Veneration of Mary Debate that I thought could use a little attention. Also, I see that Mr. Albrecht has posted some thoughts of his own regarding the debate (although I haven’t yet listened to his thoughts … I’ll save that for a later segment). One issue…
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Avoiding Landmines in Roman Catholic Apologetics
Introduction One branch of Apologetics deals with responses to the challenges to the faith brought by Catholicism. Since one apologist for Catholicism has recently posted a list of unsound arguments that are sometimes used by those defending Catholicism, I thought I’d post a similar list that at least identifies some areas of caution for Reformed…
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Response to Challenge to Calvinists
Jamsco at The Responsible Puppet has a challenge for Calvinists: “Show me any passage in the bible [sic] that says that God allowed or permitted something to happen.” (source) Answer: Two immediately come to mind. Job 1: God permitted Satan to variously hurt Job in his possessions, servants, and children but without touching Job himself.…
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Strawbridge vs. White Debate on Baptism – Some Caveats
Coram Deo at Defending Contending (link) has a post discussing the issue of infant baptism and the new covenant and promoting a debate between Dr. James White and Greg Strawbridge on the topic of infant baptism. He writes: Yet precisely WHAT does Christ mediate to those who are baptized as infants and grow to adulthood,…