Is it necessary to have the sins purged of those who are in Christ Jesus before they can go to heaven?
This is the famous/infamous ‘Pay now, pay later’ debate, so named for Dr. Stravinskas’ response to a question regarding a passage from Tobit. This debate quickly drifts off of Purgatory to the underlying issue of authority and Rome’s claim to it. A very eye-opening dialogue highlighting the difference between the biblical gospel and Rome’s gospel of self-righteousness.
Whatever happened to Catholic apologist Gary Michuta? Recall, Dr. White debated Gary on the apocrypha a few years ago (MP3’s of the debate can be found here). Well, Gary has put together a large website and a blog with occasional entries. A recent entry stated, “Christians often fool themselves into believing that the bible is guiding them into all truth
Steve Ray (a Roman Catholic apologist and pilgrimage tour guide) has again provided an argument for the papacy via his blog (link to Ray’s blog). Ray’s argument for the paaccomes in the form of a reply to an objection based on the peg in Isaiah. Apparently, this was the “only issue” about Roman Catholicism that “unsettled … scripturally” one of
Few topics illustrate the circularity of Roman logic than the Marian dogmas. The more honest Roman Catholic writers admit that when you boil it all down, the Marian dogmas are to be believed because you accept Rome’s authority, nothing more. “We are the true church, we have apostolic authority, we don’t need actual history or tradition, we can define this
A few days ago I played a clip of my cross-examination of Gary Michuta on the issue of the canon of Scripture. I had noted that Gary had commented elsewhere that he felt “embarrassed” for me at this point in our debate. I personally think the cross-examination went very well, and exposed some very weak replies. In any case, Michuta
This is part 2 of the series. The first part of the series can be found here (link). The first part discussed the true doctrine of the knowledge of God, but this section defines the erroneous doctrine of middle knowledge and describes its history. As is discussed in the video, Molinism was the brainchild of Lessius, Fonseca, and/or Molina (three
Told the story of my voting experience today and talked a little bit about worldview implications at the start, and then turned to a Jemar Tisby series of statements attempting to parallel racial justice issues with the Pharisees and Jesus’ condemnation in Matthew 23. Then we moved to Sam Allberry’s article at TGC on the Sexual Revolution, and finished up
This is part 6 of the thirteen part series in response to Jay Dyer. The previous part may be found here (link). Jay Dyer says: 5) “ A gnostic iconoclast, because the Logos cannot be imaged.” I answer: a) The Calvinist Position (whether right doctrine or error let Scripture decide) It is improper to make images
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