Salvation, Justification, & “Faith Alone” (Index Page)

(October 2010, 187 pages)

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GENERAL (CATHOLIC SOTERIOLOGY) / INFUSED JUSTIFICATION / FAITH AND WORKS

Joe Hardhat, the Quintessential Catholic: On Justification [cartoon tract with Dan Grajek, early 90s]

Justification: Classic Catholic & Protestant Reflections [1994]

Fictional Dialogue: Justification & Salvation [1995]

Justification: Faith Apart From Works is Barren [4-4-94; rev. 1996]

Salvation and Justification in the Gospels and Acts [1996]

St. Paul on Justification, Sanctification, & Salvation [1996]

Dialogue on Grace (vs. Anti-Catholic Phil Johnson) [1996]

Romans 2-4 & “Works of the Law”: Patristic Interpretation [2-16-01]

Reply to Atheist Queries Re God (Esp. Trinity & Salvation) [late April 2001]

Justification in James: Dialogue [5-8-02]

Council of Trent: Canons on Justification (with a handy summary of Tridentine soteriology) [12-29-03]

Initial Justification & “Faith Alone”: Harmonious? [5-3-04]

Faith & Works: Oil & Water or Two Sides of a Coin? [2004]

“Catholicism Refuted”? (Kevin Cauley): Pt. V: Salvation (+ Purgatory Again) [12-11-04]

Catholics’ Underemphasis on Justification by Faith [3-30-06]

Dialogue w Three Lutherans on Justification & Salvation [2-1-07]

Catholic Bible Verses on Sanctification and Merit [12-20-07]

Origen (c. 185 – c. 254 ) on Faith, Works, and Judgment [Facebook, 2-27-08]

Catholic-Protestant Common Ground (Esp. Re Good Works) [4-8-08]

Comparative Soteriology (Salvation): A Handy Chart [7-19-08]

St. Paul on Grace, Faith, & Works (50 Passages) [8-6-08]

Salvation is a Process & Not Instantaneously Assured [2009]

Grace, Faith, Works, & Judgment: A Scriptural Exposition [12-16-09; reformulated & abridged on 3-15-17]

Bible on Participation in Our Own Salvation (Always Enabled by God’s Grace) [1-3-10]

Monergism in Initial Justification is Catholic Doctrine [1-7-10]

Bible on the Nature of Saving Faith (Including Assent, Trust, Hope, Works, Obedience, and Sanctification) [1-21-10]

Biblical “Power”: Proof of Infused (Catholic) Justification [3-14-11]

Justification: Not by Faith Alone, & Ongoing (Romans 4, James 2, and Abraham’s Multiple Justifications) [10-15-11]

Various Thoughts on Salvation “Outside” the Church [2012]

Catholic & Calvinist Agreement on Justification & Works [2012]

St. Paul’s Use of the Term “Gift” & Infused Justification [2013]

Salvation: By Grace Alone, Not Faith Alone or Works [2013]

Scripture on Being Co-Workers with God for Salvation [2013]

New Testament Epistles on Bringing About Further Sanctification and Even Salvation By Our Own Actions [7-2-13]

Dialogue on Faith and Works and the Relation of Each to the Final Judgment (vs. Bethany Kerr) [10-10-13]

Our Prayers and Souls Ending Up in Heaven or Hell [3-26-14]

St. Peter Sinking (Faith & Jesus’ Expectations) [8-11-14]

Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]

“Catholic Justification” in James & Romans [11-18-15]

Philippians 2:12 & “Work[ing] Out” One’s Salvation [1-26-16]

Final Judgment is Not a Matter of “Faith Alone” At All [National Catholic Register, 10-7-16]

Catholicism = “False Gospel”?: Exchange with Anti-Catholic [3-18-17]

Reply to a Calvinist on Faith Alone and Works [of God Only?] [4-4-17]

Is God Alone Holy, According to Scripture? Or Can We Be Too? [5-3-17]

Debate with a Lutheran Pastor on Faith and Works [5-4-17]

“Why Desire Salvation?”: Reply to a Non-Christian Inquirer [National Catholic Register, 7-7-17]

“The Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves” [National Catholic Register, 7-19-17]

Biblical Evidence for Salvation as a Process [National Catholic Register, 8-4-17]

Biblical Evidence for Catholic Justification [National Catholic Register, 11-2-17]

“Faith and Works”: Unbiblical, Semi-Pelagian Terminology? [11-4-17]

Seidensticker Folly #22: Contradiction? Saved by Faith or Works? [10-1-18]

Seidensticker Folly #29: Repentance: Part of Salvation [10-26-18]

Jesus Associates Works, Merit, & Heroic Sacrifice w Salvation [11-10-18]

‘Doers of the Law’ Are Justified, Says St. Paul [National Catholic Register, 5-22-19]

Jesus on Salvation: Works, Merit and Sacrifice [National Catholic Register, 7-28-19]

Jesus: Faith + Works (Not Faith Alone) Leads to Salvation [8-1-19]

Old Testament Sacrifices: Killing Animals to be Saved? [8-17-19]

David Madison vs. Paul and Romans #3: Chapter 3 (Pauline / Biblical Soteriology: Faith and Works, Grace and Merit / Hyperbole [“No one is good”]) [8-27-19]

Salvation and Eternal Afterlife in the Old Testament [8-31-19]

Salvation and Immortality Are Not Just New Testament Ideas [National Catholic Register, 9-23-19]

Vs. James White #6: Faith & Works, and First John [11-11-19]

First John, Faith and Works, and Falling Away [National Catholic Register, 11-24-19]

Weekly Mass Attenders Can Still End Up in Hell? Yes! (Attending Mass — Even for an Entire Lifetime — Doesn’t Excuse Us from the Moral Requirements of Christianity, Including Confession of Sin [1-24-20]

Dialogue: Galatians 3 & Justification (vs. Jason Engwer) [5-29-20]

Baptismal Regeneration and Justification (vs. Jason Engwer) [6-4-20]

Good Works and Men, God’s Grace, and Regeneration (vs. John Calvin) [National Catholic Register, 8-6-20]

Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone (vs. Jason Engwer) [8-12-20]

The Bible Makes It Clear: Religion Means Relationship With God (and good works) [National Catholic Register, 6-18-21]

Ehrman Errors #3: Jesus vs. Paul on Salvation? [3-22-22]

Banzoli’s 45 “Faith Alone” Passages; My 200 Biblical Disproofs [6-16-22]

Random Thoughts on Justification and Sanctification [Facebook, 6-20-22]

Justification: A Catholic Perspective (vs. Francisco Tourinho) [6-22-22]

Reply to Francisco Tourinho on Justification: Round 2 (Pt. 1) [+ Part 2] [+ Part 3] [7-19-22]

What the Bible Says About Justification by Faith and Works [National Catholic Register, 7-27-22]

Ongoing Justification and the Indwelling Holy Spirit [National Catholic Register, 8-1-22]

The Great Justification Debate [with Francisco Tourinho] (Waitin’ . . .) [Facebook, 8-22-22]

Biblical Justification: vs. Francisco Tourinho (Round 3, Pt. 1) [10-20-22]

The Possibility and Actuality of Sinless Creatures in the Bible [Facebook, 10-20-22]

Peter and Paul Distorts Peter’s Life & Paul’s Teaching [2-25-23]

THEOSIS / DIVINIZATION / DEIFICATION

Theosis and the Exalted Virgin Mary [7-11-04]

Martin Luther : Strong Elements in His Thinking of Theosis & Sanctification Linked to Justification [11-23-09]

“In Him” An Expression of the Oneness of Theosis? [3-13-14]

Theosis / Deification / Divinization in Western Spirituality [2015]

Vs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #1: Gaudium et Spes (Incarnation) [7-11-19]

Banzoli’s 45 “Faith Alone” Passages; My 200 Biblical Disproofs [6-16-22]

SOLA FIDE (FAITH ALONE): THE PROTESTANT VIEW

“Doing Something” for Salvation: Dialogue w Evangelical [1996]

Salvation and Justification in the Gospels and Acts [1996]

St. Paul on Justification, Sanctification, & Salvation [1996]

Trent Doesn’t Utterly Exclude Imputation (Kenneth Howell) [July 1996]

Dialogue w Baptist on Romans 1:1-3 & Justification [January 1997; revised 8-11-00]

Faith Alone: Development of Church Fathers & St. Augustine? [11-24-00]

Romans 2-4 & “Works of the Law”: Patristic Interpretation (2-16-01)

Faith Alone & Original Sin: Reply to Smalcald Articles [1-30-01]

“If You Died Tonight”: Debate w Matt Slick of CARM [5-22-03]

Paul vs. Calvin: “Doers of the Law” Will be Justified [2004]

Luther’s “Snow-Covered Dunghill” (Myth?) [10-5-05]

John Wesley (Founder of Methodism), Denied “Faith Alone”? [10-20-05]

Catholics’ Underemphasis on Justification by Faith [3-30-06]

Luther’s Projection of His Depression & Crises Onto St. Paul [6-1-06]

Dialogue on Luther’s “Getting to a Gracious God” (vs. Lutheran historian “CPA”) [6-4-06]

Alister McGrath on the Protestant Innovation (Corruption?) of Imputed Justification [Facebook, 8-28-06]

Dialogue w Three Lutherans on Justification & Salvation [2-1-07]

Ecumenical Dialogue: Protestant & Catholic Soteriology [7-8-07]

Church Fathers & Justification: Martin Chemnitz vs. Catholicism [9-9-07]

Church Fathers vs. the “Reformation Pillar” of “Faith Alone” [10-24-07]

Final Judgment & Works (Not Faith): 50 Passages [2-10-08]

Origen (c. 185 – c. 254 ) on Faith, Works, and Judgment [Facebook, 2-27-08]

Catholic-Protestant Common Ground (Esp. Re Good Works) [4-8-08]

“Working Out” Salvation & Protestant Soteriology (vs. Ken Temple) [4-9-08]

Martin Luther: Good Works Prove Authentic Faith [4-16-08]

John Calvin: Good Works Manifest True Saving Faith [9-4-08]

Original Sin, Imputation, & Baptism (vs. Calvin #40) [11-17-09]

Martin Luther : Strong Elements in His Thinking of Theosis & Sanctification Linked to Justification [11-23-09]

Bible on Faith, Works, and Judgment (vs. Jason Engwer) [12-16-09]

Martin Luther: Faith Alone is Not Lawless Antinomianism [2-28-10]

Catholics & Justification by Faith Alone : Is There a Sense in Which Catholics Can Accept “Faith Alone” and/or Imputed Justification (with Proper Biblical Qualifications)? [9-28-10]

Dialogue with a Lutheran: Salvation & Miscellany [10-14-11]

“Leaven” of the Pharisees: Hypocrisy or False Doctrine? (vs. Lutheran Nathan Rinne) [11-3-11]

The “Obedience of Faith” in Paul and its Soteriological Implications (Justification and Denial of “Faith Alone”) [from Ferdinand Prat, S. J.; Facebook, 2-1-12]

Can Only Regenerate Men Perform Truly Good Works? (vs. John Calvin) [Oct. 2012]

Salvation: By Grace Alone, Not Faith Alone or Works [2013]

Bishop James White on the Book of James: His Juvenile “Challenge” Will be Met [10-7-13]

Reply to James White’s Exegesis of James 2 in Chapter 20 of His Book, The God Who Justifies [10-9-13]

Final Judgment Always Has to Do with Works and Never with “Faith Alone” [9-5-14]

Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]
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Jesus vs. “Faith Alone” (Rich Young Ruler) [10-12-15]

Dialogue: Rich Young Ruler & Good Works [10-14-15]

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Reply to a Calvinist on Faith Alone and Works [of God Only?] [4-4-17]
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Catholics and Protestants Agree on Grace Alone and the Necessity of the Presence of Good Works in Regenerate and Ultimately Saved Persons; Disagree on Faith Alone [5-4-17]

Debate with a Lutheran Pastor on Faith and Works [5-4-17]

How Are We Saved? Faith Alone? Or the Way Jesus Taught? [National Catholic Register, 5-11-17]
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Armstrong vs. Collins & Walls #8: Heretical Tobit? (Alms & Salvation) [10-20-17]

Armstrong vs. Collins & Walls #12: Salvation (Soteriology) [10-22-17]
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Seidensticker Folly #22: Contradiction? Saved by Faith or Works? [10-1-18]
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Jesus Associates Works, Merit, & Heroic Sacrifice w Salvation [11-10-18]
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Absolution, Sanctification, & Forgiveness: Reply to Calvin #7 [12-19-18]
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“Faith Alone”?: Quick & Decisive Biblical Refutation [1-8-19]
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“Faith Alone” & Salvation: Dialogue w Lutheran Pastor (vs. Rev. Ken Howes) [2-18-19]

Calvinist Origin of Luther’s (?) “Snow-Covered Dunghill”? [5-14-19]

Jesus: Faith + Works (Not Faith Alone) Leads to Salvation [8-1-19]
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Dialogue: Galatians 3 & Justification (vs. Jason Engwer) [5-29-20]

Baptismal Regeneration and Justification (vs. Jason Engwer) [6-4-20]

Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone (vs. Jason Engwer) [8-12-20]

Banzoli’s 45 “Faith Alone” Passages; My 200 Biblical Disproofs [6-16-22]

Justification: A Catholic Perspective (vs. Francisco Tourinho) [6-22-22]

Reply to Francisco Tourinho on Justification: Round 2 (Pt. 1) [+ Part 2] [+ Part 3] [7-19-22]

What the Bible Says About Justification by Faith and Works [National Catholic Register, 7-27-22]

Biblical Justification: vs. Francisco Tourinho (Round 3, Pt. 1) [10-20-22]

Luther’s Translation of “Faith Alone” in Romans 3:28 (Also: Did “Early Erasmus” Agree with Luther?) [12-7-22]

Peter and Paul Distorts Peter’s Life & Paul’s Teaching [2-25-23]

Luther, James, Faith & Works: Additional Relevant Data [3-7-23]

Sanctification: Part & Parcel of Salvation? (vs. Calvin #64) [3-9-23]

PRAYER

Prayer for the Dead & Retroactive Prayer (Luther & Protestants) [3-22-05]
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“The Prayer of a Righteous Man Availeth Much” (James 5:16: KJV): What Does It Mean? Dialogue with a Lutheran (vs. Stuart Floyd) [6-8-05]

Prayer to Jesus Alone Documented in the New Testament [6-7-08]
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Biblical Evidence: Formal Prayer Isn’t “Vain Repetition” [2009]

Biblical Evidence for Prayers of the Righteous Having More Power [3-23-11]

Should We Pray for “All Men” (1 Tim 2:1) or Not? (Bible and Calvin Say Yes; Anti-Catholic Calvinist Ron Van Brenk Sez No) [11-16-11]

Our Prayers and Souls Ending Up in Heaven or Hell [3-26-14]
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Great Catholic Mystics on the “Dark Night of the Soul” [2014]

Limited Atonement, Free Will, & Failed Prayers of Jesus [7-18-14]

The Unanswered Prayers of Jesus & Our Free Will [2015]

The Nature & Function of Prayer: Reply to Two Atheists [8-14-18]

Seidensticker Folly #7: No Conditional Prayer in Scripture? [8-16-18]
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Should We Pray for All People or Not (1 John 5:16)? [9-5-18]

Biblical Prayer is Conditional, Not Solely Based on Faith [National Catholic Register, 10-9-18]

We Can’t Demand That God Directly Communicate to Us or Answer Prayer Exactly as We Want Him to (and God’s non-answer is no reason to leave the faith) [blog combox, 2-23-19]
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Why the Bible Says the Prayers of Holy People Are More Powerful [National Catholic Register, 3-19-19]

Can the Prayers of Jesus Go Unanswered? [National Catholic Register, 6-10-19]

Madison vs. Jesus #10: Universal Answered Prayer & Healing? [8-7-19]

Pearce’s Potshots #61: The Rationale for Prayer [2-5-22]

Want a Prayer Answered? Find the Most Righteous Person You Can Find to Pray it For You [Facebook, 3-21-22]

Review of God Loves the Autistic Mind (Fr. Matthew P. Schneider) [7-26-22]

Nutshell Systematic Theology of the Efficacy & Biblical Nature of “Prayers of the Righteous” [Facebook, 9-20-22]

Bible on Praying Straight to God (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-21-22]

Reply to Banzoli’s “Questions for Catholics About Prayer…” [9-23-22]

Master List of Bible Passages About the Prayers of Very Righteous People Having Much Greater Power and Efficiency [Facebook, 11-16-22]

5 Replies to Questions About Catholic (and Biblical) Prayer [National Catholic Register, 11-30-22]

SIN / MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN

Mortal vs. Venial Sin: Biblical? [1997]

Mortal & Venial Sin: Strong Biblical Support [4-1-06]
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Dialogue on Mortal & Venial Sin [4-14-06]

Blaise Pascal on Ridicule and Sarcasm Regarding Sin and Folly [12-29-11]

Mortal and Venial Sin (vs. Calvin #56) [2012]

Does God “Want” Men to Sin? Does He “Ordain” Sin? [2-17-10 and 3-16-17]

Martin Luther and Lutherans on Mortal & Venial Sins [10-30-17]

What the Bible Says on Degrees of Sin and Mortal Sin [National Catholic Register, 7-6-18]

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner”: Biblical & Christlike? [8-21-18]

Should We Pray for All People or Not (1 John 5:16)? [9-5-18]

Vs. James White #8: St. Basil on Mortal & Venial Sin [11-13-19]

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner” — Quite Biblical! [National Catholic Register, 1-29-20]

Mortal & Venial Sin: Proof from “Unwitting” Passages [10-26-21]

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION / ETERNAL SECURITY / APOSTASY

Luther and the Origin & Nature of “Instant” Salvation [1991]
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Assurance of Instant Salvation? / Apostasy / Falling Away (Bible passages) [c. 2000]

“Certainty” of Eternal Life? (1 Jn 5:13 & Jn 5:24) [5-8-02]

St. Paul on Falling Away from Grace and Salvation [2004]

Dialogue on Luther’s “Getting to a Gracious God” (vs. Lutheran historian “CPA”) [6-4-06]

Ecclesiological Certainty (?) & the “Infallibility Regress” [5-22-03 and 10-7-08]

Bible on the Moral Assurance of Salvation (Persevering in Faith, with Hope) [10-21-08]

Dialogue with a Calvinist Regarding Falling Away from Grace or Salvation [7-28-09]

Baptism, Regeneration, Assurance? of Salvation (vs. Calvin #39) [11-16-09]

St. Paul: Two-Faced Re Unbelief? (Romans 1 “vs.” Epistles) [7-5-10]

Novelist Anne Rice’s Deconversion: Straw Men & “Baby / Bathwater” (conversion to humanism but not atheism) [7-30-10 and 8-9-10]

Absolute Assurance of Salvation?: Debunking “Prooftexts” [Oct. 2010]

Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]

“Once Saved, Always Saved”: Is it Biblical? Antinomian? [8-18-15]

My “Review” of Martin Scorsese’s Silence (+ Facebook Discussion #1 / Facebook Discussion #2) [1-13-17]

Some Nagging Questions About Scorsese’s Silence [National Catholic Register, 2-19-17]

Seidensticker Folly #3: Falsehoods About God & Free Will [8-14-18]

Should We Pray for All People or Not (1 John 5:16)? [9-5-18]

Madison vs. Jesus #7: God Prohibits Some Folks’ Repentance? [8-6-19]

Vs. James White #4: Eternal Security of Believers? [9-19-19]

Vs. James White #7: My Refutations of Calvinism & His Non-Replies [11-12-19]

Reply to Protestant Challenges Re Eternal Security (vs. Jason Engwer) [7-26-20]

Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone (vs. Jason Engwer) [8-12-20]

The Bible is Clear: ‘Eternal Security’ is a Manmade Doctrine [National Catholic Register, 8-17-20]

Eternal Security vs. the Bible [National Catholic Register, 8-23-20]

Seidensticker Folly #64: A Saved Dahmer & Damned Anne Frank? [11-24-20]

Perseverance of the Saints: Reply to a Calvinist [5-17-21]

Westminster vs. Bible #1: Assurance of Salvation [5-19-21]

Is True Faith Always Permanent? (vs. Calvin #62) [3-7-23]

PREDESTINATION / GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY / PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

Catholic Teaching: Predestination of the Elect (Ludwig Ott) [1996]
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Dialogue on God’s Middle Knowledge & Foreknowledge (vs. Dr. Alexander Pruss) [1997]

Calvin: Only God Knows Who is Elect [1-5-06]

Dialogue on Molinism and on How God Predestines (+ Part II) [4-15-06 and 4-24-06]
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Predestination & the Ingenious “Solution” of Fr. Most [4-22-06]

Dialogue: Molinism & How God Predestines (Pt. III) (+ Pt. IV) [5-2-06 and 5-14-06]
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Do Catholics Believe in Predestination? Yes! But . . . [8-29-06]
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Reply to a Calvinist: Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart (vs. Colin Smith) [10-14-06]

Catholic Predestination, Molinism, & Thomism in a Nutshell [3-27-08]

Luther: God Predestines Reprobation of the Damned [2-27-10]

Dialogue: Double Predestination, Total Depravity, & Limited Atonement [4-14-10]

Bible vs. Double Predestination (No Reprobate Parallels) [4-22-10]

Romans 9: Plausible Non-Calvinist Interpretation [4-22-10]

God’s “Punishing” of Descendants: Unjust? [7-8-10]

Fallen-Away Catholics: They Never Were in the Fold? [Facebook, 10-27-16]

God “Hardening Hearts”: How Do We Interpret That? [12-18-08; expanded on 1-4-17]

“Reply to Calvin” #1: The Elect [3-3-17]

“Reply to Calvin” #3: Synergism, Grace Alone, & the Elect [4-3-17]

Luther (Unlike Lutheranism) Taught Double Predestination [1-11-18]

Predestination and Salvation: Q & A with an Atheist [7-24-18]

Predestination Mysteries: Dialogue with an Atheist [7-24-18]

Predestination to Hell? (vs. Calvin #61) [1-20-21]

Perseverance of the Saints: Reply to a Calvinist [5-17-21]

LIMITED VS. UNIVERSAL ATONEMENT

Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace? [4-6-10]
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Dialogue: Double Predestination, Total Depravity, & Limited Atonement [4-14-10]

Bible vs. the Reformed Doctrine of Limited Atonement [2010]

Limited Atonement, Free Will, & Failed Prayers of Jesus [7-18-14]
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Limited Atonement Refuted? (John 12:32) [10-19-15]

Dialogue: Does the Bible Teach Limited Atonement? [2-23-19]

Calvinist Hems and Haws with Regard to Answering My Biblical Refutation of Limited Atonement, Then Flatly Refuses [Facebook, 2-26-19]

There Never Will Be a Single Human Being for Whom Christ Did Not Suffer [National Catholic Register, 4-28-21]

Limited Atonement: Refutation of James White [9-1-21]

Biblical Reasons Why Catholics Don’t Believe in ‘Limited Atonement’ [National Catholic Register, 10-27-21]

More Biblical Reasons Why Catholics Don’t Believe in ‘Limited Atonement’ [National Catholic Register, 10-30-21]

ERROR OF UNIVERSALISM

Dialogue on Hell & the “Possibility” of Universalism [May 2004]
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Biblical Annihilationism or Universalism? (w Atheist Ted Drange) [9-30-06]

Did Pope St. John Paul II Teach Universalism? [4-26-11]

Did Julian of Norwich Teach Universalism & Deny Hell? [3-24-14]

Analysis of “Hoping All Will be Saved” / “…Hell is Empty” [8-20-15]

Book of Revelation Annihilates Universalism [8-31-15]

THE GOSPEL, DISCIPLESHIP, REVIVAL, “RELIGION”, “PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS”

New Testament Passages on Love: A Collection [3-16-81; rev. 10-3-21]

“In You I Hope” (Poem of Mine from 1982) [about trusting God and waiting on Him with confidence]

Good News: Evangelical & Catholic Gospel Presented [June 1982; rev. 7-17-02]
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Gospel: Defined by the Earliest Christian Preaching [January 1988; rev. 7-8-02]
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What is the Gospel? Catholic-Protestant Agreement [12-3-96 and 1-4-97]

Galatians and the Gospel: Dialogue with a Calvinist [1997]
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Do Catholics & the Catholic Church Preach the Gospel? [2002]

Catholics Never Hear About the Gospel or Jesus at Mass? [6-4-07]

“Knowing Jesus as we Ought to”: A Catholic Perspective [7-10-09]

“Why Desire Salvation?” Reply to a Non-Christian Inquirer [12-7-09]

Trusting God as an Element of Faith & Discipleship [1-8-10]
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Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace? [4-6-10]
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Loving Ourselves (Since God Loves Us So Much!) [4-26-10]

Dialogue: Definition of “Christian” (vs. Reformed Pastor) (+ Did Trent Anathematize all Protestants?) [6-5-10]

“The Harvest is Ready”: Tips on Catholic Evangelism [7-21-10]

God’s “Valentine”: His Love, Mercy, & Compassion [2-13-11]

Great Catholic Mystics on the “Dark Night of the Soul” [2014]

“Shake the Dust Off of Your Feet”: Mean? [10-4-14]

Was Jesus “Spiteful” When He Said, “Shake the Dust Off of Your Feet”? [8-13-15]

“Personal Relationship with Jesus”: Good Catholic Phrase? and Practice? [8-15-15]

“Personal Relationship” vs. “Join the One Church”? [2-3-16]

Dialogue: Pope Francis Doesn’t Evangelize? (and on the Nature of Dialogue vs. (?) the Gospel; with a Traditionalist) [4-29-16]

Gandhi on Christian Hypocrisy: Some Truth But More Falsehoods [Facebook, 11-12-16]

Christianity = Love (Orthopraxy) + Correct Doctrine (Mormonism?) [1-16-17]

Catholicism = “False Gospel”?: Exchange with Anti-Catholic [3-18-17]

“The Harvest is Ready”: 14 Tips for Catholic Evangelism [National Catholic Register, 7-12-17]
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Thankfulness as Our Model in Holy Scripture [11-23-17]
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“Personal Relationship with Jesus” — A Catholic Concept? [National Catholic Register, 2-19-18]

Christianity, Depression, Peace, Comfort, Hope, & Joy [6-9-18]
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Swearing and Sharing the Faith Don’t Mix Very Well! [National Catholic Register, 7-16-18]

Some Thoughts on Evangelism and Being “Hated by All” [National Catholic Register, 7-20-18]

Seidensticker Folly #30: Small vs. Great Commission? [10-26-18]
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Biblical Evidence: Personal Relationship with Jesus [2013; expanded on 1-18-19]
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“Spiritual” Kingdom of God: Old Testament Precursors [8-18-19]

Isaiah Foretells the Gospel & the Suffering Messiah [8-20-19]

Salvation and Eternal Afterlife in the Old Testament [8-31-19]

C. S. Lewis: A Life of Extraordinary Charity & Selflessness [10-21-19]

Is Pope Francis Against Apologetics & Defending the Faith? [11-26-19]

Debate: Pope Francis on Doctrine, Truth, & Evangelizing (vs. Dr. Eduardo Echeverria) [12-16-19]
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Estranged Friendships: Lessons from Kobe Bryant’s Death (Don’t Put Off What Needs to be Done Now; What is Right to Do) [1-29-20]

Dialogue: the Relation of Christian Apologetics & Testimony [1-31-20]

Lessons in Reconciliation from Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson [National Catholic Register, 2-10-20]

Question from Inquiring Atheist: “Why Were the Incarnation and Atonement Necessary?” [Facebook, 3-23-20]

“God Provides”: Another Recent Example of a Thousand in My Life [Facebook, 3-31-20]

Abp. Viganò Whopper #289: Pope Forbids All Evangelism (?) [4-8-20]

Pope, Peter, & Paul: Evangelize; Don’t Proselytize [4-28-20]

Pope Francis vs. the Gospel? Outrageous & Absurd Lies! (Anti-Catholic Protestant James White and Catholic Reactionary Steve Skojec Echo Each Other’s Gigantic Whoppers) [5-26-20]

On Whether Jesus’ “Brothers” Were “Unbelievers” [National Catholic Register, 6-11-20]

“Love Your Enemies”: Old Testament Teaching Too? [9-7-20]

Seidensticker Folly #54: “Neighbor” in OT = Jews Only? [9-12-20]

Dialogue on Biblical Views Re Following Jesus & Riches (vs. Dr. Steven DiMattei) [11-21-20]

John Lennon: Christian Right Before His Death? [3-27-07; rev. 12-8-20]

Who Must Renounce All Possessions to Follow Jesus? [National Catholic Register, 1-21-21]

Is “Religion” Against “Relationship” in Scripture? [5-31-21]

The Bible Makes It Clear: Religion Means Relationship With God [National Catholic Register, 6-18-21]

God’s “Fellow Workers” Help Spread Salvation & Grace (We “Impart Grace”, “Save” Others, Win Souls, Help Them “Obtain Salvation”, Etc., In Our “Work of the Lord”) [10-29-21]

Explicit Biblical Instruction on Saving Souls [1-24-22]

Seidensticker Folly #77: Free Will & the Bible [1-25-22]

Explicit Biblical Instruction on Saving Souls [National Catholic Register, 2-28-22]

C.S. Lewis vs. the Bible & Newman Re “Religion” [8-19-22]

What Percentage of Human Beings Will Be Saved (i.e., Will Make it to Heaven)? Two Parables Possibly Provide Clues [10-18-22]

“Asbury Revival”: So Far So Good, But Be Watchful [2-20-23]

Asbury Revival & My Many Predictions of Revival Since 2000 [2-23-23]
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“Jesus Revolution” Film & the Sacrament of Baptism [3-1-23]

Which is Greater?: Love or Faith? [Facebook, 3-20-23]
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GRACE, IRRESISTIBLE GRACE, CATHOLIC ANTI-PELAGIANISM, AND SYNERGISM

Dialogue on Grace (vs. Anti-Catholic Phil Johnson) [1996]
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Romans 2-4 & “Works of the Law”: Patristic Interpretation [2-16-01]
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Man’s Grace-Enabled Cooperation w God (1 Cor 3:9) [5-8-02]

Salvation by Works in the Catholic Catechism? [5-8-02]

Semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism: An Introduction [1997 and 12-4-02]
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John Calvin Misunderstood Trent’s Doctrine of Grace [2-28-03]
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“The Prayer of a Righteous Man Availeth Much” (Jas 5:16: KJV) [6-8-05]

Dialogue w Three Lutherans on Justification & Salvation [2-1-07]

Distribution of Divine Graces by Mary & Other Human Beings [5-23-07]
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My Daughter (at 5) on Heaven & Salvation [5-24-07]

Were the “Judaizers” Jewish Christians (“Messianic Jews”)? [6-7-07]

Merit and Cooperating with God for Salvation [7-8-07]
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Ecumenical Dialogue: Protestant & Catholic Soteriology [7-8-07]

Catholic Bible Verses on Sanctification and Merit [12-20-07]
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Will We See Our Pets in Heaven? [3-12-08]

“One Mediator” (1 Tim 2:5) vs. All Human Mediation? [10-14-08]

Grace Alone: Perfectly Acceptable Catholic Teaching [2-3-09]

Merit & Human Cooperation with God (vs. Calvin #35) [10-19-09]

Judaizers: “Proto-Catholics”? (Alleged Works-Salvation) [12-14-09]

Bible: Some Sins More Serious Than Others [2009]

Bible: God Shares Glory with His Creatures [1-3-10]

Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace? [4-6-10]
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Calvinist Irresistible Grace vs. the Bible [October 2010]

Biblical Evidence: Prayers of Righteous Have More Power [3-23-11]

Indulgences & Distribution of Grace (vs. Calvin #58) [2012]

Calvinist Irresistible Grace: Biblical? [2013]

Scripture on Being Co-Workers with God for Salvation [2013]

Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]
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Are Folks in Hell Because We Didn’t Pray Enough? [8-19-15]

John Calvin: All Fathers But One Wrong Regarding Free Will [8-22-15]

Grace Alone: Biblical & Catholic Teaching [12-1-15]

“No Ritual Can Make One’s Heart Right with Jesus”. False! [2-12-16]

“Reply to Calvin” #3: Synergism, Grace Alone, & the Elect [4-3-17]

Reply to a Calvinist on Faith Alone and Works [of God Only?] [4-4-17]

Catholics and Protestants Agree on Grace Alone and the Necessity of the Presence of Good Works in Regenerate and Ultimately Saved Persons; Disagree on Faith Alone [5-4-17]

Degrees of Grace / Quantifiable Differences in Grace [5-4-17]
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Is Grace Alone (Sola Gratia) Also Catholic Teaching? [National Catholic Register, 2-5-18]

Seidensticker Folly #29: Repentance: Part of Salvation [10-26-18]

Does God Use Even Lowly Apologists to Help Save Folks? (Reply to False Caricatures of Apologists Over Against Documented Biblical Views) [10-28-21]

God’s “Fellow Workers” Help Spread Salvation & Grace (We “Impart Grace”, “Save” Others, Win Souls, Help Them “Obtain Salvation”, Etc., In Our “Work of the Lord”) [10-29-21]

Semi-Pelagianism & Catholicism (vs. Francisco Tourinho) [8-5-22]

No Secondary or “Mini” Mediators of Grace and Salvation? Think Again [Facebook, 3-22-23]

MERIT AND REWARDS / HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE

Catholic Merit vs. Distorted Caricatures (James McCarthy) [1997]
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Merit: Dialogue w Two Protestants on Catholic Soteriology [4-2-06]

Does Catholic Merit = “Works Salvation”? [2007]

Merit and Cooperating with God for Salvation [7-8-07]

Catholic Bible Verses on Sanctification and Merit [12-20-07]
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Merit: Clarification of the Catholic Doctrine: Condign and Congruous Merit, Prevenient Grace, Etc. [2-2-09]

Our Merit is Based on Our Response to God’s Grace [2009]

Merit & Human Cooperation with God (vs. Calvin #35) [10-19-09]

Indulgences & Distribution of Grace (vs. Calvin #58) [2012]

Scripture on Being Co-Workers with God for Salvation [2013]

Does Pope Francis Deny the Catholic Doctrine of Merit? No [7-1-19]

Lucas Banzoli’s Mindless Denigration of an Imagined “Mary” (Including Extensive Biblical Analyses of Exceptionally “Righteous” and “Holy” People, and Merit) [9-11-22]

The Bible Is Clear: Some Holy People Are Holier Than Others [National Catholic Register, 9-19-22]

ORIGINAL SIN AND TOTAL DEPRAVITY

Calvinist Total Depravity vs. Catholic Concupiscence [1996]
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Judgment of Nations: A Collection of Biblical Passages [9-21-01]

Judgment of Nations: Biblical Commentary and Reflections [9-21-01]
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Faith Alone & Original Sin: Reply to Smalcald Articles [1-30-01]
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Biblical Evidence for Original Sin [6-26-02]

Protestant “Reformer” Zwingli Denied Original Sin [5-27-06]

God’s Judgment of Humans (Sometimes, Entire Nations) [2-16-07]

Total Depravity: Reply to James White: Calvinism and Romans 3:10-11 (“None is Righteous . . . No One Seeks For God”) [4-15-07]
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Calvinist Total Depravity: Does Romans 1 Apply to All Men? [4-10-08]

Dialogue: Original Sin, Jesus, & Mary’s Immaculate Conception [9-4-08]
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2nd Council of Orange: Sola Gratia vs. Total Depravity [1-5-09]
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Original Sin, Imputation, & Baptism (vs. Calvin #40) [11-17-09]
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Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace? [4-6-10]
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Dialogue: Double Predestination, Total Depravity, & Limited Atonement [4-14-10]

Bible vs. the Reformed Doctrine of Total Depravity [2010]

Historicity of Adam and Eve [9-23-11; rev. 1-6-22]

St. Francis de Sales: Bible vs. Total Depravity + Biblical Evidence for the Indefectibility of the Church (from the Psalms) [11-24-11]

Total Depravity & the Evil of the Non-Elect (vs. John Calvin) [10-12-12]

Adam & Eve of Genesis: Historical & the Primal Human Pair [11-28-13]

St. Augustine, Calvin, & Calvinists Regarding Total Depravity [1-7-14]

Group Discussion on Eastern vs. Western Conceptions of Original Sin (with Eastern Catholics and Orthodox) (+ discussion on a second continuing Facebook thread) [Facebook, 6-28-14]
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Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]

Gandhi on Christian Hypocrisy: Some Truth But More Falsehoods [Facebook, 11-12-16]

Is God Alone Holy, According to Scripture? Or Can We Be Too? [5-3-17]

Does God Ever Judge People by Sending Disease? [10-30-17]

G. K. Chesterton on Original Sin [Facebook, 11-23-19]

Jesus vs. James White on Who Can be Saved [10-12-21]

Could Jesus Have Possibly Inherited Original Sin? (Was Mary’s Immaculate Conception Necessary to Prevent Such a Scenario, or Only “Fitting”? Jesus’ Two Natures & Impeccability) [11-11-21]

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Last updated on 22 March 2023

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