Purify Your Bride

On that same post was another comment about my post. I do allow comments on my own blog but I guess not everyone wants to do that. I’ll respond anyway. My comments are in purple. His are in green:
My first response was going to be along the lines of “perhaps there is hope that some, if not […]

I just found out there was a discussion about me on Turretinfan’s blog. He made a post about me on Aug 25th (which happens to be my birthday). I replied in the comments but he is moderating them and has not yet allowed my reply to appear. So here it is:
I didn’t catch this earlier […]

With the latest controversy about St Pio’s stigmata I have been thinking about the place of miracles in the business of evangelism. I know in the early church they were big. Jesus said the miracles he did spoke for Him and invited people who could not believe in Him to at least believe the miracles (Jn 10). […]

This kind of thing is good to see. It was rare in the US and sadly even more rare in Canada. That is changing. We are seeing more and more bishops take stands on such matters. The church is getting more orthodox and society is getting less christian. The gap is growing and it is […]

Protestants like to bring up the idea that infallibility didn’t exist in the old testament covenant so it should not be needed in the new testament covenant either. It is an interesting question. It does not address the real empirical problem with a lack of unity and God’s truth being lost in a sea of […]

Secular society is based on the assumptions that all faiths can be treated equally. Then you get extreme forms of Islam that indoctrinate their children with the idea that Jews and Americans are evil. So what do you do? Well Sweden decided to stop all faiths from teaching any religion as true. Not sure if […]

One more from Saint and Sinner. This one is called On the Perspicuity of Scripture:

“They [Roman Catholics] hold that the Scripture is so obscure, that we can know nothing of what it teaches on any point whatever, but by the interpretation of the Church. It was the saying of one of their distinguished men, Mr. Stapleton, […]

Not sure how many of these pages I will refute but this is number two. It is called The Doctrinal Chaos Argument:  

“Such is the unity which the Romish Church so often and so tauntingly contrasts with what she is pleased to term “Protestant disunion.” As a corporation, having its head at Rome, and stretching its […]

Dave Armstrong has a post on this question. He was actually responding to a comment directed at me. I appreciate his comments but I have a few thoughts on my own. This topic comes up over and over again from protestants and I don’t think we are able to totally communicate the answer. I don’t really […]

Saint and Sinner has another website where he tries to argue against the Catholic church and some other faiths. This is a rebuttal of something he calls The Infallibility Argument. 

“This famous argument has not inaptly been termed the “Labyrinth, or Popish Circle.” “Papists commonly allege,” says Dr. Cunningham, “that it is only from the testimony of […]

I remember my sister, a protestant pastor, once commenting that the wrong people often took her sermons to heart. She would see some people just coasting in the Christian life and not making much of an effort and really not being very concerned about the spiritual consequences. Then she would see others making a huge […]

I am amazed at how similar the arguments against the church are to arguments against God. For example, atheists talk about evil in the world as proof there is no God. Protestants talk about evil in the church as proof the church is false. The logic is similar. Still protestants argue one way against the […]

Pope Benedict talks about Hilary.
Here is a guy who was exiled for being orthodox. He was right but a local synod was dominated by Arians and he ended up being punished for incorrect thinking. What is interesting is he never started his own church. Why not? He was right. The church was wrong. He was […]

Dave has said he would not read Saint and Sinners responseto his rebuttal because S&S declared it to be only partial due to the length of Dave’s reply. I decided to respond anyway. S&S is in green normal, Dave’s are in green italics and my words are in purple:
I believe that I will only be doing […]

Amazing how the things I find on blogs seem to come together. This connects with the nominalism and the kingdom of heaven ideas I have been contemplating. It is John Allen interviewing Cardinal George from Rocco: 
Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge talk about the distinction between “high tension” and “low tension” religion, arguing that over time […]