Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White: Anti-Catholic Extraordinaire

Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White: Anti-Catholic Extraordinaire August 23, 2009

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[Nov. 2013; 395 pages. See full book and purchase information]
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[James White informed me in a letter dated 10 January 2001 that he was a bishop: “I am an elder in the church: hence, I am a bishop, overseer, pastor, of a local body of believers”. So I have called him that ever since [see more material giving the background and rationale for this, based on White’s own stated beliefs]. As for his supposed doctorate (hence my quotation marks and question mark), see the appropriate section below. Thus we have the double irony of his not wanting to be called what he claims he is (a bishop), while he falsely calls himself what he clearly isn’t (an academic “Doctor” with an authentic, earned doctorate degree]
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BASIC ISSUES / ANTI-CATHOLICISM / THE GREAT DEBATE


Is Catholicism Christian or Not? [“Postal Debate”: March-May 1995]

Part I: Introduction and My Initial Form Letter (23 March 1995)

Part II: Mr. White’s 7-Page Initial Reply (6 April 1995)

Part III: My 16-Page First Counter-Reply (22 April 1995)

Part IV: Mr. White’s 17-Page Second Counter-Reply (4 May 1995)

Part V: My 36-Page Second Counter-Reply (15 May 1995) and Mr. White’s One-Page “Reply” (10 November 1995)

My Four Ballyhooed Debates w Anti-Catholics (All Forfeited): My Opponent Split Before It Was Over, Every Time (!) [5-21-20]

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BIBLE AND TRADITION / SOLA SCRIPTURA / RULE OF FAITH / CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE CATHOLIC VERSES

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Dialogue on “Perspicuous Apostolic Teaching” [May-June 1996]

“Moses’ Seat” & Jesus vs. Sola Scriptura [12-27-03]

Jerusalem Council vs. Sola Scriptura [9-2-04]

James White Critiques My Book, The Catholic Verses (Introduction) [12-29-04]:

Part I: Binding Tradition [12-30-04]

Part II: Rabbit Trail Diversion [12-30-04]

Part III: Ad Hominem [12-31-04]

Part IV: I’m an Ignorant Convert? [12-31-04]

Part V: Deceiver Dave [1-1-05]

Part VI: Penance and Redemptive Suffering [1-2-05]

Refutation of James White: Moses’ Seat, the Bible, and Tradition (Introduction: #1) (+Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI) [5-12-05]

The Catholic Verses: James White Ain’t Got a Clue [10-1-07]

St. Athanasius Was a CATHOLIC, Not a Proto-Protestant (+ Counter-Reply to James White on Tradition, etc.) [12-26-07]

Vs. James White #2: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 1 [9-17-19]

Vs. James White #3: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 2 [9-18-19]

Rome, the Biblical Canon, & Tradition (vs. Turretinfan & James White) . . . Observed in the Views of John of Damascus (aka John Damascene: c. 676-749) [11-7-19]

Vs. James White #10: Arbitrary Tradition Re the Canon [11-14-19]

Vs. James White #14: Word of God / the Lord Usually Oral (+ White’s Own Erroneous Definition of Sola Scriptura in 1990 (at the same time I got it right) [11-18-19]

Vs. James White #16: St. Basil Held to Sola Scriptura? [11-19-19]

I Refuted James White’s Favorite Defenses of Sola Scriptura [11-11-19; expanded on 5-11-20]

Hebrews 10:12, Vulgate, & the Mass (James White’s Lie) [9-3-21]

“Reformed Biblicism”: Reply to James White [8-17-22]

Jerusalem Council Disproves Sola Scriptura (vs. James White) [2-28-24]

Church Fathers & Sola Scriptura: Reply To James White Claims: Myths Regarding Cyprian, Augustine, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Athanasius [3-16-24]

Comment: James White vs. Tim Staples on the Rule Of Faith (Including St. Athanasius’ Rule of Faith & the Indefectibility of the OT “Proto-Church”) [5-9-24]

Debate On Sola Scriptura (vs. Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White) [5-13-24]

Reply to James White On Oral Tradition [5-13-24]

Sola Scriptura: Reply to James White (Akin Debate) [5-16-24]

Luther, Church Offices, + Swan’s & White’s Ignorance [6-11-24]

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CHRISTOLOGY

Who’s Ignorant: “Schizo Jesus” or Bishop James White? [10-19-22]

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DEBATE CHALLENGES (WHITE’S PERSISTENT REFUSAL TO ENGAGE IN WRITTEN OR “LIVE CHAT” DEBATE)

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EUCHARIST / SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

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Sacrifice of the Mass & Hebrews 8 (vs. James White) [3-31-04]

Vs. James White #5: Real Eucharistic Presence or Symbolism? [9-20-19]


THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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Assumption & Immaculate Conception: Part of Apostolic Tradition (dialogue) [June 1996]

“Live Chat” Debate on Mary (vs. James White) [12-29-00; “footnotes” added shortly afterwards]

Critique of Mary — Another Redeemer? by James White (Whitewashing History: By William Possidento and Dave Armstrong) [3-12-04; slight revisions and updated links: 6-12-20] 

Defense of Critique of Jame’s White’s Misinformed Mariology (particularly with regard to the differing views on early Mariology of Protestant Church historians J.N.D. Kelly and Philip Schaff) (vs. James Swan) [3-15-04 and 9-7-05]

“Marian Stains”: “Dr.” [???] James White Gets His Wish! [4-23-05] 

Mary Mediatrix and the Church Fathers (+ Documentation That White Accepts the Scholarship of the Protestant Church Historians I Cite [J. N. D. Kelly and Philip Schaff] ) [9-7-05] 

James White’s Relentless Sophistry in Our Live Chat on Mariology [12-2-07]

Perpetual Virginity of Mary Mocked by James White [3-18-17]

Vs. James White #12: Mary the Woman of Revelation 12 [11-7-19]

My Four Ballyhooed Debates w Anti-Catholics (All Forfeited): My Opponent Split Before It Was Over, Every Time (!) [5-21-20]

A “Biblical” Immaculate Conception? (vs. James White) [8-27-21]

The Queen Mother & the Bible (vs. James White) [10-8-21]

Quick Refutation of James White Re Praying to Mary [Facebook, 5-10-24]

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THE PAPACY / COUNCIL OF NICAEA / ECCLESIOLOGY / DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE

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Vs. James White #1: “Papal Pretensions” & “New” Apologists [9-16-19]

James White: Hypocritical Use of “Roman Catholic Church” [11-11-19]

Vs. James White #15: Canon & “Catholic” Traditions [11-18-19]

Thoughts: James White & Cameron Bertuzzi & Catholicism (Primarily Concerning the Papacy) [5-17-22]

Odd James White View Re Matthew 16:19 & the “Keys” [8-15-22]

Yes, James White; the Pope Is Infallible, Now, Just As He Always Has Been (I Educate Him as to Where Caving on the Nature of Marriage Has Actually Occurred) [Facebook, 2-26-24]

Quick Refutation of James White Re Papal Infallibility in the Bible [Facebook, 5-10-24]

Peter the Rock: Only a Catholic View? (vs. James White) [Includes Documentation of 14 Church Fathers Who Thought Peter Was the Rock] [5-11-24]

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PURGATORY AND TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT / PENANCE
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APOLOGETIC METHODOLOGY / PRESUPPOSITIONALISM 
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SOTERIOLOGY / SALVATION / TULIP / JUSTIFICATION / FAITH AND WORKS
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CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE ONE-MINUTE APOLOGIST

 

COMMUNION OF SAINTS / INVOCATION OF SAINTS
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FAKE “DOCTORATE” / TEACHING CREDENTIALS

James White’s Bogus “Doctorate” Degree (vs. Mark Bainter) [9-16-04]

James White’s Bogus “Doctorate” Degree, Part II (vs. Jamin Hubner) [6-29-10]

James White Bogus “Doctorate” Issue Redux: Has No One Ever Interacted With His Self-Defense? / White Takes His Lumps from Baptist Peter Lumpkins [2-20-11]

Doktor James White on Fudging His Teaching Assignments (by Baptist Peter Lumpkins; see also my Facebook link and further comments and documentation in that combox) [3-23-11]

James White Compared to Adjunct Faculty Members at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary [3-27-11; at Internet Archive]

James White’s “Doctorate”: Dialogue w Seminary’s Rick Walston [4-5-13]

James White is Working on a Doctorate? Huh?! [Facebook, 8-16-22]

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The Fake Degree of James White, A Cautionary Tale (You Tube Video by Dr. David A. Falk, an Egyptologist)

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INSULTS AND  AD HOMINEM ATTACKS 

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BAPTISM AND SACRAMENTALISM

Sacramentalism: James White Proves Augustine & Luther Aren’t Christians [original title: “Man-Centered” Sacramentalism: The Remarkable Incoherence of James White: How Can Martin Luther and St. Augustine Be Christians According to His Definition?] [11-26-03] 

Baptismal Regeneration: Refutation of James White [8-27-21]

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