Steve Ray Didn’t Send the Troops

Some of you will remember the name Marty Minto. I was filling in for Marty when I interviewed Dave Hunt in 2000 regarding Calvinism. I was on Marty’s show many times. In fact, it was a debate on Marty’s show on KPXQ here in Phoenix that eventually led to the writing of The Same Sex Controversy. Marty left the area

At this point Armstrong opines, It reminds me of the old silly Protestant tale that the popes speak infallibly and ex cathedra (cathedra is the Greek word for seat in Matthew 23:2) only when sitting in a certain chair in the Vatican — because the phrase means literally “from the bishop’s chair” — whereas it was a figurative and idiomatic

   Seventy percent of Roman Catholics do not understand the Eucharist? There’s that anti-catholic James Swan again, making stuff up about the one true church. Everyone knows, those who are members of the one true church have the benefit of the infallible magisterium. The papacy has God-given authority keeping Catholics unified!    Actually, what most who may think this about me don’t

   When I checked on the link I have used a number of times recently for my Nicea article in the CRI Journal of July/August, 1997, I discovered it had gone dead. So I contacted CRI, and they contacted their webfolks who are busy migrating their website to a new format. They jumped my article to the head of the line

   It’s been almost a decade but nothing has changed about the historical realities regarding papal primacy. This is my rebuttal period from the debate with Mitch Pacwa on the Papacy from Long Island in 1998, illustrating once again how Rome’s claim to virtual ownership of church history is simply indefensible. The DVD of this debate is available here (#581).

I regularly visit Roman Catholic blogs and websites to see what the apologists are up to. Here are a few highlights.        The Envoy boards provided this newsbreaker from Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid:    “My new book on the subject of sola scriptura, which I’m finishing up this summer, responds directly and in detail to these claims made by King and