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The Purpose of this blog – In Arabic
I’m sorry, I do not speak Arabic. Still, I can express to you, in Arabic, the purpose of this blog: . وَأَمَّا هَذِهِ فَقَدْ كُتِبَتْ لِتُؤْمِنُوا أَنَّ يَسُوعَ هُوَ الْمَسِيحُ ابْنُ اللَّهِ وَلِكَيْ تَكُونَ لَكُمْ إِذَا آمَنْتُمْ حَيَاةٌ بِاسْمِهِ I hope you will. It is the only hope you have for the life to come.…
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Methodist Pastor Jumps Ship
A man who was, until recently, a senior pastor at what is the third largest Methodist church recently made the move from non-Catholic synergism to Catholic synergism (link). To God be the Glory!
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Luther Citation Discussion – Status Report
Data: 1. Partial “original” from Cochlaeus.2. English translation of Luther, apparently from the German original.3. Armstrong has the German original of Luther as produced in his “works,” which we expect will simply reveal that the English translation is accurate.4. We also have a practically illegible (to me) photograph of a single page from a manuscript…
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Selection from “That These Words of Christ, ‘This is My Body,’ etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics,”
Once Scripture had become like a broken net and no one would be restrained by it, but everyone made a hole in it wherever it pleased him to poke his snout, and followed his own opinions, interpreting and twisting Scripture any way he pleased, the Christians knew no other way to cope with these problems…
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Speculative Luther Citation Tree
LutherGerman Original statements in “These words, ‘this is my body,’ etc.”toCochlaeus’ inaccurate gloss on a single sentence from that work.toBellarmine and Chrismann (independently of one another)with Bellarmine serving as major node, with many Catholic apologists (possibly including Gregory Martin, de Sales, and so forth) and Leibniz obtaining it from Bellarmine or from someone who relied…
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Thoughts on Free Will
Dear Non-Calvinist Reader, As you think about your views on free will, here is something to consider: There is a future, one future, and only one future. What that future is, is already known to God and to those to whom God has revealed it. Their knowledge of the future cannot (present tense) be otherwise,…
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The Real Turretin – on Christian Liberty
Andrew Compton has provided a transcription (with commentary) of what the Real Francis Turretin had to say about Christian Liberty (first part) (second part). These thoughts are especially timely in a day when the Baptists are drawing new battle lines over the issue of forbidding folks from drinking. Thanks, Andrew, for publishing his remarks! -Turretinfan…
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A Quick Footnote to the Luther Citation Dialogue
UPDATE: I note that as of this update, Armstrong has micharacterized this post as: ” that [] Robert Bellarmine is the original Latin source (at least for the quote in isolation, if not its translation) .” That’s not what this post says or means. I invite readers to read the post for themselves. I’m not…
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Luther's New Testament (in German)
Martin Luther’s New Testament (complete with the Epistle of James, no matter what you may have heard) can be found here (link). Sadly the scanning quality was not great – several pages are practically illegible, and the font used (while a traditional, noble, German font) is hard to read, especially for moderners, who are used…