Author Archive for: DrOakley

Well, the book arrived. I refer to A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About The Passion of the Christ, a book designed especially to be given out by Catholics to folks who have seen The Passion of the Christ from Ascension Press, written by the Catholic Exchange. The URL given for the book is: www.evangelization.com. Notice that there are

DA, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, pp. 69-70: The theme of the Epistle to the Hebrews is Christ as our High Priest. As such, the “priestly” verses are very numerous (for example, 2:17, 3:1, 4:14-16, 5:1-10, 6:20, 7:1-28, 8:1-6, 9:11-15, 24-28, 10:19-22). The teaching here acquires much more meaning within Catholic Eucharistic theology, whereas, in evangelical, non-sacramental Protestant interpretation, it is

Evidently some folks think a quick listing of “random thoughts” upon seeing the Passion movie is a “review.” Please. Take a blog for what it is: a blog. It is amazing to me how folks will look at two paragraphs here and ignore four hours of commentary on the Dividing Line, including the playing of clips, etc., and jump to

OK, saw it. Random thoughts time. Hopefully something more coherent will develop by the time of the Dividing Line tomorrow morning. 1) When Jesus said “I AM” to the soldiers, they fell back upon the ground. Why on EARTH delete that even when Jesus says “I am”?                                                                               2) “It is accomplished” and “It is finished” are not, in the context

The flood of Passion discussion is overwhelming. You can’t even keep up with it anymore. I’m glad I got started on it months ago. 🙂 Please note the article posted below; for Reformed Baptists you may wish to listen to Pastor A.N. Martin’s sermon from Trinity Baptist on this topic as well. There is stuff coming out now that is

Everyone is talking about it, as expected. I preached a sermon on it a few months ago, and this past Sunday I sort of “updated” our folks at PRBC on more recent developments. Here is the sermon for streaming, here for downloading; here is the more recent Sunday School lesson for streaming, here for saving. I’m heading for Atlanta this

Last night in class we went over Ignatius’ epistle to the Smyrnaeans. Someone remind me on a future edition of the DL to go over the first six sections in reference to the gross abuse of this material by Roman Catholic apologists (and those deceived by them). I could post the text here on the website, or a link to

I am currently teaching Development of Patristic Theology Through Augustine for GGBTS, and we are reading through Ignatius. Last week we read this section:   For there are some who maliciously and deceitfully are accustomed to carrying about the Name while doing other things unworthy of God. You must avoid them as wild beasts. For they are made dogs that

As most of you know, Mel Gibson carries in his pocket a “relic” from the Roman Catholic “visionary” and (eventually) saint Emmerich. Some of the scenes and material found in The Passion of the Christ came from Emmerich’s recording of her visions. Here is the description of the book from its back cover: THE DOLOROUS PASSION has been inspiring thousands