Confirmation: Biblical Evidences (vs. Patrick O’Brien)

Last updated on: April 16, 2026 at 10:53 am By Dave Armstrong

Including Documentation of Protestant Espousal of the Rite of Confirmation & Brief Clarification of Anathemas Patrick O’Brien is a former Catholic Protestant anti-Catholic apologist, who obtained a Masters of Divinity degree from Liberty University. He runs the Philippians 1:9 Ministries YouTube channel, that has 11,800 subscribers. Today we’ll be critiquing his video called, “Sacrament of Confirmation Examined: Is It a Biblical Practice?” (dated 12-18-25). His words from the video will be in blue. ***** 0:48 this sacrament of confirmation is... Read more

1 Thessalonians 4 = Rapture? (vs. Patrick O’Brien)

Last updated on: April 14, 2026 at 5:26 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Patrick O’Brien is a former Catholic Protestant anti-Catholic apologist. He has a Facebook page called The Bible in Context, with 66,000 followers. He offers many reels, or brief videos there, including one called, “Rapture is in the Bible!!!” In it he chides my old friend, Catholic apologist Steve Ray, who asked where “the Rapture” was in the Bible. Steve possibly was asking where the doctrine is in the Bible, but maybe not. Patrick noted that the Greek word for “caught... Read more

Mary Mother of God: Reply to Allie Beth Stuckey

Last updated on: April 13, 2026 at 7:12 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Allie Beth Stuckey is a Reformed Baptist mostly known as a conservative political commentator. Her YouTube channel has 712,000 subscribers. Today, we’re replying to part of her video entitled, “The Mary Debate: Did Jesus Have Siblings? & Other Dogmas” (7-30-25). It has over 85,000 views as of this writing, and more than 5,000 comments. First, let’s look at Allie’s comments on this topic: 5:40 What I’ve found, and I’ve talked about this a lot, is that — especially in the... Read more

350 Bible Passages vs. Sola Scriptura

Last updated on: April 11, 2026 at 3:51 pm By Dave Armstrong

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[all Bible passages from RSV] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Definition of Sola Scriptura 2 Authoritative Oral & Written Tradition (Parodosis) in the Bible [33] 3 Oral Torah [6] 4 Jewish Talmudic Traditions Cited by Jesus [16] 5 Extra-Biblical Jewish Literature Cited by the Bible [26] 6 Perspicuity or Clearness of Scripture / Definitive Interpretation of Scripture from Ecclesiastical Leaders [13] 7 Authoritative & Infallible Church / No Denominations or Divisions [34] 8 Orally Proclaimed Non-Scriptural “Word of God” / “Word of... Read more

God, Modern Physics, & Dark Energy: An Analogy

Last updated on: April 11, 2026 at 10:11 am By Dave Armstrong

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This is the initial transcript for the video, What is God Made of? (Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 4-10-26). ***** Does modern science have anything to say about the existence of God, Whom Christians believe to be an eternal spirit? Is the idea of a spirit itself an absurd, unverifiable idea? Science by definition is the study of the laws of physical matter, so in that sense it can’t directly speak to the question of God, and atheists... Read more

Catholics R Christians! DUH! (vs. Steve Christie)

Last updated on: April 7, 2026 at 12:16 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Protestant anti-Catholic apologist Steve Christie runs the BornAgainRN YouTube channel, where he produced the video, A Response to Dr. Gavin Ortlund ‪@TruthUnites‬: “Are Catholics Christians?” (12-20-24). As of 4-6-26, it has 3,748 views and 671 comments. I think it deserves a thorough refutation, and so this is my reply. His words will be in blue. ***** As a former devout Roman Catholic, who was raised & educated Catholic through college & converted to being Protestant, I would respectfully & adamantly disagree... Read more

Venerating Men & Angels: Worship? 20 Bible Passages

Last updated on: April 4, 2026 at 1:38 pm By Dave Armstrong

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This is the transcript of the initial presentation in the video, Is Venerating Men and Angels Always Worship? 20 Biblical Examples say NO! (Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 4-3-26). ***** Revelation 19:10 (RSV) Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Revelation 22:8-9 I John... Read more

Proof That Calvin Affirmed Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

Last updated on: April 5, 2026 at 4:37 pm By Dave Armstrong

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. . . Contrary to the Claims of Protestant Apologist Steve Christie & Catholic Apologist Trent Horn / St. Basil the Great and Almost All of the Church Fathers Held to Mary’s Perpetual Virginity / Early Protestantism Virtually Unanimously Agrees [John Calvin’s words will be in blue; Steve Christie’s in green; St. Basil the Great’s in brown] I’ve been through this debate in great depth, several times, as my links at the end will show. Protestant apologist Steve Christie, who... Read more

Sola Scriptura: Self-Defeating, Unworkable, Unbiblical

Last updated on: March 29, 2026 at 9:10 am By Dave Armstrong

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This is an abridgment with a few minor additions and changes, of a 2003 article of mine, entitled, “Protestantism: Is it Logically Self-Defeating?” It’s my argument against sola Scriptura in a nutshell. Protestantism cannot settle its internal differences; each branch or sect can only (ultimately arbitrarily) assert its own authority. It has no way of resolving these denominational differences because sola Scriptura doesn’t allow that to happen and cannot, because it provides no remedy for the intrinsic problem of... Read more

Inspired Prophets: An Analogy to Infallible Popes

Last updated on: March 28, 2026 at 1:11 pm By Dave Armstrong

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This is the transcript of the initial portion of the video, “Infallible Pope? Yes! Contra Gavin Ortlund” (Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 3-27-26). ***** Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist apologist who earned a doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary in historical theology. He runs the very popular YouTube channel Truth Unites. Today, we’re critiquing a statement he made in his video, “Trent Horn on the Papacy REBUTTED” (4-6-21): 23:41 None of the Old Testament offices had the ability to speak... Read more

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