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Here is a glowing example of “common sense reading of the language” trumps “I’m a scholar and I decree it to be so” on the topic of sola gratia. If you can read Warfield’s full presentation and say, “Oh, yeah, he was surely affirming that Rome believes in sola gratia” then once again we prove that for some

For some reason l0g0s hopped back on the “rip and shred on Reformed folks” bandwagon today (I haven’t the foggiest what prompted it this time—perhaps the fractal below looks too…Calvinistic or something? Maybe it is “promote your local Anglican Day”?). In any case, he launched off:  The reason I ask is because C.S. Lewis–that master writer and theologian among the

I have suggested often over the past nearly decade and a half that whenever you hear a starry-eyed Protestant talking about Rome’s high view of grace, that the single best means of bringing them back down to earth and reality (if they are open to truth, anyway) is to get them to read Indulgentiarum Doctrina, the Apostolic Constitution on the

Pro-Abortion Catholics Seek Mary’s Intercession

David King provided the following citation this evening:  If those who profess to return to the right way feel hurt by these requirements, they are greatly mistaken. For it is impossible to accept them as Christian pastors if they have not renounced the papal priesthood in which they were ordained to sacrifice Jesus Christ, which is a blasphemy worthy of

This interaction is simply one of the clearest the “blog wars” has produced on the vast difference between rCism and a vision based upon biblical teaching concerning the centrality of the gospel. A must read. Update: In responding to a Roman Catholic correspondent, Mr. Johnson wrote, “The only thing I would say in response to your comment is that hopefully

For those who have never been in the midst of a debate on what Augustine meant in Sermon 131, those words may not be familiar. But they were suggested by the PlaidMan, and I thought they fit very well. As Alexander continues his crazed rampage, the picture he paints of me becomes ever more distorted, so that all who actually

For years I’ve heard about him. Tan Book Publishers (super conservative Roman Catholic publisher) still prints his book, The Catholic Controversy (Bethany House named my book, hence, no, there is no connection), a series of tracts he wrote that are specifically aimed at converting Calvinists to Roman Catholicism. Many a modern Roman Catholic has referred me to de Sales’ work

In the realm of the theological blogosphere today the conjunction of the great luminaries of reformed Catholicism collided in what observers called a “near black hole incident” wherein TGE and Alexander the Coppersmith piled laud and congratulations upon l0g0s for his stunning ability to take a comment about my consistency in holding to one particular view, ignore that context, and

This audio from a Q&A session was sent to me recently, and it is quite interesting to hear Bahnsen defend the Southern Presbyterian view, and specifically to defend the concept of offering baptism to a person who has come to Christ out of Roman Catholicism, for Rome, Bahnsen well knew, is not a true church. I wonder if the “reformed

On the papacy, Reformed Catholics have not automatically ruled out the continuing historical institution of the papacy. Many of us see it as a providential tool of God through the centuries designed to aid in protecting and guiding the Church.

1) I do not know if Mr. Johnson is just being difficult or just does not understand much of what I am saying, but it would be a great exercise in futility to go back over each of the many “no, you completely missed the entire point of what I just said” portions of his response.  2) As someone in

I am such a horrible person. Or so Jimmy Akin says, and hence, it must be true. I mean, my horrible attitude must be the reason for his constant mocking tone and derogatory statements. Has to be. What other reason could there be? Well, I guess he might be so very snippy because he’s so busy. His current blog makes

So how did Akin respond to being provided with the refutation of his errors on Greek grammar? Well, “it’s all misdirection, I tell you! Sure I put this out in a debate, and sure I put it in writing, and sure I defended it on the air, and no, I can’t defend it because I don’t know what I’m talking

Dave Armstrong is trumpeting NT Wright and Andrew Sandlin on his blog today. Shouldn’t surprise anyone. Note these two statements from Wright and Sandlin and ponder them well:  They need not know “theology” to be saved; they do need to know that Jesus and His redemptive work is their only hope and that in trusting Him, they are abandoning themselves

Below I noted, very briefly and mainly in passing for those who have no earthly idea what terms like “canonization” and “beatification” and the like mean, what is going on regarding Anne Catherine Emmerich. I was just doing a quick “blog run” and discovered that Akin invested a major size chunk of his blog today to what I call the

Several vocal critics have recently adopted the tactic of merely pasting from their files all manner of scathingly damnatory citations about “Papists” and “idolatry” and so forth from Calvin and other 16th century Protestants. Much virtual ink has been spilled about the “inconsistency” of the Reformed Catholics in attempting to deal more charitably with Roman Catholics. Observations: 1) When rC’s

This exchange is way too long for the blog, but it is relevant to many of the current issues. I have added my response to the previous article. However, let me post just the start of the response: Mr. Johnson replied shortly after I posted this response. The final paragraph of that reply reads: Yes, Athanasius and other apologists defended

Nothing really startling here. Anne Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century visionary whose book, The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ provided a major portion of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, will be beatified at a ceremony October 3rd, a move which puts her on the road to “sainthood.” For those who only know the biblical definition of a

For to this day we are a wonder to God’s enemies, who carry themselves not only with boldness but with abandoned impudence against the pure doctrine of the gospel. To them we are heretics, schismatics, dogs — nay, the offscouring of the world. But although we are to them for signs and wonders, it is sufficient for us to be

For those of you on dial-up, may I extend once again my sympathies. Being stuck on dial-up while traveling is enough to make me count my blessings for my office computer’s high-speed internet access, believe me. Life these days involves the constant juxtaposition of the greatly encouraging next to the greatly discouraging. On the one hand I see the faithfulness

I noted in Karl Keating’s E-letter that Catholic Answers was going to put up some forums on their website just a few weeks ago. I have been traveling (obviously), and am home for just a few days before heading back to Long Island, so I took advantage of a real Internet connection to check it out. First, this is a

At first I didn’t even see it.  I saw a reference to it on Dave Armstrong’s blog, of all places.  Good ol’ Alexander the Coppersmith (AtC), who has the amazing ability of joining hands with anyone, no matter what their beliefs, as long as it means he can get into print insulting me, had posted on l0g0s’ blog regarding the

Did you know that Terminal 7 at JFK Airport is closed if you arrive at 2:25am? Yes indeedy. The things you learn when you travel. And did you know you have to get on that train thing and go to Terminal 4 to hang around at that time in the morning? And that they had Attila the Hun design the

With what effrontery then will the Papists boast that they possess the gospel, which is not only corrupted by many inventions, but more than adulterated by many wicked doctrines? Let us remember that it is not enough to retain the name of the gospel, and some kind of summary of its doctrines, if its solid purity do not remain untouched.

Alexander the Coppersmith blew a fuse a couple of days ago. I’ll try to find time to document the words of this “zealous Reformed Catholic” later on, though the next few days do not look good for allowing much time for that. Just one gem from the words of this wonderful correspondent: The theology of the Baptist schismatics stinks. Its

Hey, dynamic equivalency is all the rage, and no one wants to be a literalist and actually worry about things like context and word meaning, so the NRCT may well be a big hit. Here’s an example: For Christ did not send me to make people Christians and join them to the new covenant by an external religious act, but

In case you’ve run into the new-fangled “Reformed Catholics” running about the web, eagerly displaying their erudite insights, “ecumenical” willingness to read Calvin (they only seem to see parts of what he wrote, however) while extolling Chesterton and the like, you may be a tad confused by their constant discussions about how everyone else (hey, isn’t that very sectarian?) believes

The Gobbler (a not-so-famous theological super-hero) sent me this quote from a sermon by Greg Bahnsen. No date was included, but it may have been post-ECT and had relevance to (seemingly) Gerry Matatics. In a sermon titled The Road to Rome, Was the Reformation Right?, the late Dr. Bahnsen said, “No, I cannot embrace a Roman bishop and say we

A while back I was reading Jimmy Akin’s comments about my being a Christian on his blog. Of course, the idea was “White was validly baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, therefore he is a Christian.” And this has been the basis many RC apologists have used for saying that I am an anti-Catholic but