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Hart on the Lord’s Day and the NFL
Darryl Hart points out the rules that churches who decide to show the Superbowl at church must abide by, but notes that a better incentive might be provided by pointing out the 4th commandment (3rd for the Papalists). It’s also provides an opportunity for pointing out the changing attitude of Rome toward’s the Lord’s Day…
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Hart Documents Vatican II Watershed
Darryl Hart has posted an interesting item on the effect of Vatican II (link to post). It is a point others have observed, but his documentation on the question of justification in Roman Catholic encyclopedias is especially eye-opening. Hat’s off to DGH for this good post. -TurretinFa To God be the Glory!
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God "has chosen to teach [orthodoxy and orthopraxy] by the Holy Scriptures" – A Hippolytian Response to Mr. Alt
Mr. Scott Alt was kind enough to respond to the recent Dividing Line episode (and associated post) in which Dr. White and I responded to his previous set of questions. Unfortunately, there is very limited interaction with any of the substance of points we raised. In fact, I will skip over Section I of his…
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God "has chosen to teach [orthodoxy and orthopraxy] by the Holy Scriptures" – A Hippolytian Response to Mr. Alt
Mr. Scott Alt was kind enough to respond to the recent Dividing Line episode (and associated post) in which Dr. White and I responded to his previous set of questions. Unfortunately, there is very limited interaction with any of the substance of points we raised. In fact, I will skip over Section I of his…
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What a Tangled Web is Woven to Defend Tobit!
Over at the “National Catholic Register,” Mark Shea provided a piece responding to a reader’s concerns about the apocryphal book of Tobit, which is included within the canon of Scripture by the Council of Trent. I’m afraid the reader of Shea’s response has been seriously disserviced by Shea’s misleading answer. Mark Shea wrote: “I’m of the opinion…
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Twenty-Four Elders – Twenty-Four Books
People sometimes see what they want in allegory. If a modern Protestant sees the number 66 in an allegory, he naturally thinks of the 66 books of the Bible. If the chapter divisions in Isaiah were original, we would be tempted to place significance on that point. If a modern Protestant sees 27 or 39…
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Belief in God is more than Believing God Exists
These days people often use the phrase “believe in X” to mean, basically, “believe that X is real” or “believe that X exists.” That’s one reason I sometimes find it helpful to use “believe on Jesus Christ,” when explaining the gospel to people, rather than “believe in Jesus Christ”: it is one thing to believe…
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Response to Ann Coulter Regarding Men Who Kill
Ann Coulter writes, “Guns don’t kill people, the mentally ill do” (link) as the title of her post documenting the various testimonies to obviously disturbing behavior of several spree shooters. Ms. Coulter thinks that these young men suffered from a mental illness. Clearly, their behavior was abnormal – normal people don’t go around killing other…
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Responding to Scott Alt Regarding Sola Scriptura
Scott Alt recently posted “Questions for a Reformed Apologist.” Dr. White and I (TurretinFan) responded on the Dividing Line, but the following provide some additional notes. Mr. Alt begins by providing a quotation from Benedict XVI that he thinks sounds supportive of Sola Scriptura, taken by itself out of context. If I were going to…
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Women's Ages in the Bible
Women these days tend to be very sensitive about their ages. They go to significant lengths to use cosmetic concoctions and surgeries to render their appearance more youthful than it would otherwise be. Some of this is probably just vanity and a mistaken emphasis on something ephemeral and ultimately unsatisfying. That said, it is interesting…