Thoughts: James White & Cameron Bertuzzi & Catholicism

May 17, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

Primarily Concerning the Papacy Cameron Bertuzzi is a professional photographer and founder of Capturing Christianity, a ministry aimed at exposing the intellectual side of Christian belief. It began as a result of his brother becoming an atheist. He is a writer, speaker, and uses his ministry to host discussions and interviews on Christian Apologetics. His very popular YouTube channel with the same name has 127,000 subscribers. He wrote about his purpose: I want to awaken American evangelicals to the fact... Read more

James White

Papacy & Infallibility

Cameron Bertuzzi

Cameron Bertuzzi & Catholicism

Capturing Christianity

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Praying to the Saints

May 15, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Including a Reply Regarding the (Blasphemous?) “Excesses of Marian Prayers” from the Protestant Point of View Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai in Ojai, California. Gavin has a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in historical theology, and an M.Div from Covenant Theological Seminary. He is the author of seven books as well as numerous academic and popular articles. For a list of publications, see his CV. He runs... Read more

Blessed Virgin Mary

Saints & Purgatory & Penance

asking saints to pray

Baptists & invocation of saints

Catholic

Catholicism

communion of saints

contra-Catholic apologetics

Gavin Ortlund

intercession of the saints

invocation of saints

praying to saints

praying to the saints

Roman Catholic

Truth Unites

Reply #2 to Gavin Ortlund on Purgatory

May 14, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai in Ojai, California. Gavin has a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary in historical theology, and an M.Div from Covenant Theological Seminary. He is the author of seven books as well as numerous academic and popular articles. For a list of publications, see his CV. He runs the YouTube channel Truth Unites, which seeks to provide an “irenic” voice on theology, apologetics, and the... Read more

Fathers of the Church

Saints & Purgatory & Penance

intercession of the saints

Reply to Gavin Ortlund’s “Relics: A Protestant Critique”

May 12, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Saints & Purgatory & Penance

physical objects & worship

physical objects in worship

veneration of religious objects

worship

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Purgatory

May 12, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Fathers of the Church

Saints & Purgatory & Penance

intercession of the saints

Review: “The Orthodoxy of Amoris Laetitia” (Pedro Gabriel)

May 10, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Dr. Pedro Gabriel, a Portugese oncologist, is also a fine Catholic apologist. He co-founded and is a regular contributor to the excellent website, Where Peter Is: which contains an extensive collection of articles in defense of the orthodoxy of Pope Francis. He is currently taking classes in moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and earned a Diploma with Honors from the London School of Journalism. He also writes Catholic novels “with a Tolkienite flavor.” ***** Dr.... Read more

Eucharist & Liturgy

Papacy & Infallibility

Sexuality and Gender Issues

Amoris Laetitia

Catholic moral teaching

The Orthodoxy of Amoris Laetitia

Sola Scriptura (vs. “Barely Protestant” Anglican Priest)

May 5, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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The Barely Protestant YouTube channel is run by an Anglican priest, Fr. James, who apparently wishes to refrain from publicly using his last name. The description of the site reads: “An Anglo-Catholic who is on YouTube to help explain the historic (non-Papal) Catholic Faith within the Anglican Tradition.” ***** This is a reply to his video, “Response to Fr. Mitch Pacwa’s Critique of Sola Scriptura” (4-6-21). As always, I will be looking to see if he can produce biblical proof... Read more

Baptists and sola Scriptura

High Chuch Anglicanism

infallible authority

Is Sola Scriptura Biblical?

perspicuity of Scripture

Reply to Collin Brooks on Sola Scriptura

May 5, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Collin Brooks runs the YouTube channel, Resisting the Winds: dedicated to helping Christians resist every wind and wave of false doctrine. “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[e] to the measure of the stature of... Read more

Bible and Tradition

apostolic succession

apostolic tradition

Baptists and sola Scriptura

Is Sola Scriptura Biblical?

perspicuity of Scripture

Response to an Inquiring Protestant (Austin Suggs)

May 3, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Strictly Biblical Arguments Regarding the Papacy & Mary’s Immaculate Conception & Assumption After working full-time at a large non-denominational church, Austin Suggs fell in love with teaching people to love and live out the message of the Bible, and this drove him to attend Moody Bible Institute where he is currently a theology major (senior year). This love for teaching also led to the start of his YouTube channel, Gospel Simplicity, where he has conversations about biblical and theological topics... Read more

Blessed Virgin Mary

Papacy & Infallibility

Austin Suggs

Bible & Mary's Assumption

Bible & the Immaculate Conception

bodily assumption of Mary

Immaculate Conception of Mary

inquiring Protestant

the papacy

Symbolic Adult Baptism? (vs. Mike Winger)

May 2, 2022 By Dave Armstrong

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Pastor Mike Winger is the featured teacher of BibleThinker online ministry. He graduated from the School of Ministry at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and was ordained in 2006. He has since served in various ministries with a primary focus on being a pastor for the youth. Mike has since transitioned into laboring full time with BibleThinker to provide free teaching content worldwide. He also has a thriving YouTube channel called Learn to Think Biblically. Mike is strongly committed to a careful and thoughtful study of the... Read more

Baptism and Sacramentalism

adult baptism

Baptism

baptism & grace

baptism & justification

baptism & salvation

baptismal regeneration