Quick Ten-Step Refutation of Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone)
[public domain / Pixabay] (10 October 2003) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Sola Scriptura is Not Taught in the Bible 2. “Word of God” 3. Tradition is Not a Dirty Word 4. Jesus and Paul Accepted Non-Biblical Oral...
View ArticleWere Vernacular Bibles Unknown Before Luther?
Luther’s Dubious Claims About the Supposed Utter Obscurity of the Bible Before His Translation In 1466, 17 years before Martin Luther was even born, Johannes Mentelin printed the Mentel Bible, a High...
View Article“Explicit” Bible Proofs and Protestant Double Standards
Photograph by James Nichols [public domain / Pixabay] * * * * * In one of the Facebook groups I am in, a Protestant stated that “Jesus nowhere explicitly commands to use ashes” and “There’s no Lent...
View ArticleThe “Apocrypha”: Reply to Dr. Ankerberg & Dr. Weldon
Portrait of Jean Miélot (after 1456), by Jean Le Tavernier (d. 1462) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * (8 December 2004) * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS * * * I. Standard Protestant Church History...
View ArticleDeuterocanonical References (?) in the Gospels
Torah scroll: Big Synagogue Museum, Wlodawa, Poland [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * * * (2-1-05 [Matthew] / 7-13-05 [Mark, Luke, and John] ) *...
View ArticleDeuterocanonical References (?): Acts-Ephesians
Illustration from the deuterocanonical book of Sirach, Copenhagen, c. 1751 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * (7-27-05 for all books except Romans: 1-11-05) * * * Derived from pp. 800-804 of...
View ArticleDeuterocanonical References (?): Philippians-Revelation
Fragment of the 8th century Greek manuscript Codex Regius: ending of the Gospel of Mark [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * (8-10-05) * * * Derived from pp. 800-804 of the Nestle-Aland Greek New...
View ArticleSt. Jerome’s Deuterocanon “Anomalies”
St. Jerome Visited by Angels, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] (11-27-07) My good friend and fellow Michigander apologist Gary Michuta, in his excellent book, Why...
View ArticleAre All Bible Books Self-Evidently Inspired?
This is an excerpt from my book, The One-Minute Apologist (Sophia Institute Press, 2007). It’s my own initial draft, and so is slightly different from the book. * * * * * (6-19-06) *** BIBLE AND...
View ArticleUma rápida refutação do “Sola Scriptura” em dez passos
[Portugese translation of A Quick Ten-Step Refutation of Sola Scriptura, by Fábio Salgado de Carvalho] [public domain / Pixabay] *** 1. O “Sola Scriptura” não é ensinado na Bíblia Os católicos...
View ArticleDid Jesus Commission the New Testament (or the Disciples?)
I ran across this post of 4-5-18 today on Bishop James “Dr.” [???] White’s website. It was written by an anti-Catholic Reformed / Presbyterian polemicist who goes by “Turretinfan.” I decided to make a...
View ArticleThe Revised Fundamentalist Baptist Version (RFBV)
Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White had fun on his blog (5-18-04), with his “New Reformed Catholic Translation” (NRCT), directed towards his fellow Reformed Protestants who don’t follow his anti-Catholic...
View ArticleVs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #6: Dei Verbum & the Bible
[see the Master List of all twelve installments] Paolo Pasqualucci (signer of three of the endless reactionary-dominated “corrections” of Pope Francis), a Catholic and retired professor of philosophy...
View ArticleVs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #7: Dei Verbum & Tradition
[see the Master List of all twelve installments] Paolo Pasqualucci (signer of three of the endless reactionary-dominated “corrections” of Pope Francis), a Catholic and retired professor of philosophy...
View ArticleVs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #8: Lumen Gentium & Collegiality
[see the Master List of all twelve installments] Paolo Pasqualucci (signer of three of the endless reactionary-dominated “corrections” of Pope Francis), a Catholic and retired professor of philosophy...
View ArticleVatican II Upheld Biblical Inerrancy (vs. David Palm)
David Palm’s words will be in blue. He is a traditionalist and friend of mine for some 25 years now. Words of James Scott will be in green. This discussion took place on my Facebook page. ***** One...
View ArticleLuther & the Previously Obscure [?] Bible (vs. James Swan)
[Martin Luther’s own words below will be in blue; Hartmann Grisar’s footnotes (only) in brown; James Swan’s words in green] *** The big myth under consideration is the commonly heard legend among...
View ArticleDialogue: “Obscure” Bible Before Luther’s Translation?
This was originally a lengthy Facebook discussion (7-24-14) about my article, Were Vernacular Bibles Unknown Before Luther? (Luther’s Dubious Claims About the Supposed Utter Obscurity of the Bible...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Bible Interpretation
[book and purchase info.] *** I. INTRODUCTION Time and again, in discussing the Bible’s teachings I hear the reply, “But that’s only your interpretation” as if no certainty can be obtained as to what...
View ArticleEvangelicals Love the Bible More Than Catholics Do
[originally posted on 8-11-22 on Facebook] Protestants on the whole are certainly more familiar with the Bible than Catholics. I don’t think anyone who has interacted with them much (or has been one,...
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