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Steve Rays' Reasons
Steve Ray, now a Roman Catholic, formerly a Protestant congregant attempted to answer some questions about why he decided to trust the Papal see: I explained my reasons for converting to the Catholic Church in my book Crossing the Tiber and on my Conversion CD. Here I provide a few of the quotations that had…
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Clement of Rome and Bryan Cross – Justification by Faith Alone or Faith and Works?
I’m glad that my friend Lane Keister recently highlighted the point that 1 Clement teaches justification by faith alone. The author of 1 Clement (whether Clement is the author or the scribe is an open question) does clearly indicate that justification is by faith alone, and by faith to the exclusion of works of holiness.…
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John Calvin vs. Cardinal Sadoleto
September 1, 1539, Calvin delivered a powerful blow to Roman apologetics of his day with his letter to Cardinal Sadoleto (Tony Pietrantonio recently provided an involuntary imitation of Sadoleto). What is interesting about the Calvin vs. Sadoleto dispute is that it begins from the topic of worship. Calvin states: Therefore, Sadolet, when you uttered this…
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Genetic Anomalies Due to Inbreeding?
A reader (I’ll live him anonymous for now, unless he wants credit) wrote: Reading last May’s “Where is the Promise of Christ’s Coming?” , the question came to me: how do we square the facts of closely-related “inbred” lines in genealogy with the Biblical fact that all of humanity descends from Adam via the eight…
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Bayseian Probabilities Misused … Exemplified
In this amusing post, Glenn Peoples (Update: Technically, the creative work is Tim McGrew’s) lampoons Richard Carrier’s misuse of Bayseian Probability by turning his methods on – the existence of Richard Carrier (link to example). This misuse of “probability” is not confined to anti-supernaturalists like Carrier. We also see it among supernaturalists, from time to…
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Rhology Islamic Dialog / Debate
My friend Rhology engaged in a three part dialog with an imam, which is recorded. Interestingly, the imam suggested that Islam does not permit “debate,” as such (mentioned near the beginning of the first part). I thought Rhology did a good job of highlighting some of the important issues. It was relatively low key and…
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Response to Bryan Cross on Penal Substitution
Bryan Cross has provided a significant number of posts in a comment box at the GreenBaggins blog, suggesting that somehow the doctrine of penal substitution is inconsistent with orthodox Trinitarian theology and/or orthodox Christology. Bryan’s argument was provided a variety of different ways with many different tangents, but Bryan’s premises can be reduced to this:…
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Why Men Shouldn't Be Ordained?
I understand the purpose of the top-ten list at this link, identifying supposed reasons that no men should be ordained. That is, the purpose is to take some of the arguments against women’s ordination and try to turn them on their head. Ultimately, the list ends up refocusing us on the real issue why men…
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Why Men Shouldn’t Be Ordained?
I understand the purpose of the top-ten list at this link, identifying supposed reasons that no men should be ordained. That is, the purpose is to take some of the arguments against women’s ordination and try to turn them on their head. Ultimately, the list ends up refocusing us on the real issue why men…