Reply to Atheist on Isaiah 53 & “Dishonest” Christians

Last updated on: April 12, 2017 at 11:16 am By Dave Armstrong

Original manga logo (Shinobu Kaitani: 2005) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (7-2-10) *** See my previous installment, Reply to Atheist on “Fabricated” OT Messianic Prophecies, to learn more about Mitch / “ProfMTH”: an atheist who loves to try to shoot down the Bible. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to illustrate my longtime contention that atheists (or at least the more vocal, polemical, provocative ones) are usually out to sea and guilty of the most basic misunderstandings and fallacies when it... Read more

Clonish Choir-Preaching and Orwellian PC Groupthink

Last updated on: April 11, 2017 at 8:13 pm By Dave Armstrong

. . . Rather Than Fair Dialogue [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Oftentimes today we see people writing about who-knows-who: someone they refuse to name; therefore, we can’t see his or her comments in context and in their entirety. And they can’t respond. You know: that thing that used to be routine: letting someone defend themselves against a charge . . . Free speech; fair and open and open-minded dialogue . . . quaint and antiquated notions, now becoming as... Read more

Could Jesus Have Possibly Sinned (Denial of Impeccability)?

Last updated on: April 11, 2017 at 12:16 pm By Dave Armstrong

Head of Christ, by Rembrandt (1606-1669) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (1997) *** A Baptist friend of mine stated: Jesus Himself was not unable to sin. I realize that God the Father is unable to sin; however, Jesus, though He was in nature God, was able to sin. This is evident in this verse “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been... Read more

Reply to Atheist on “Fabricated” OT Messianic Prophecies

Last updated on: April 11, 2017 at 11:33 am By Dave Armstrong

Mitch / “ProfMTH”‘s Video Jesus Was Not the Messiah – Pt. I Straw men, on the Tour de France cycling route, in Lautrec. Photograph by Robin Ellis (8-23-10) [Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 license] (7-1-10) ***** [Mitch was made aware of my three critiques of his material. He never replied] *** I was made aware (by an atheist friend) of a ten-minute You Tube video by one Mitch / “ProfMTH”: an atheist who loves to try to shoot down the Bible:... Read more

The Holy Spirit, Cornelius, Baptism, & Confirmation

Last updated on: April 10, 2017 at 6:24 pm By Dave Armstrong

Vision of Cornelius the Centurion (1664), by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] ***** A friend of mine who is also a Catholic writer and webmaster, who would be known to many if I named him, wrote me a letter, asking: I’ve been dialoguing with a colleague, a fallen away Catholic, and we got onto the subject of the Holy Spirit and baptism. I had noted that the early Church saw baptism as a person’s entry into the... Read more

“The Passion”: Review and Reflections

Last updated on: April 10, 2017 at 12:48 pm By Dave Armstrong

Flagellation of Christ, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] *** (2-29-04; abridged and edited on 4-10-17) *** My Review The following is one of the most difficult things I have ever written (and writing comes very easy for me), because words are so utterly inadequate to describe the impact of this film. One could cite Holy Scripture, but Christians are already familiar with that, and the biblical passion is a different thing... Read more

On Reducing Abortion (w Atheist Pro-Lifer)

Last updated on: April 8, 2017 at 1:46 am By Dave Armstrong

Image by “Clker-Free-Vector-Images” (4-18-12) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Jon Curry is an atheist friend and very nice guy, whom I know in real life in the metro Detroit area. His wife even teaches my daughter in a homeschooling cooperative. His words will be in blue. ***** If pro-life Republicans really care about women it’s not easy to see it. I noticed Trump was going to remove the maternity care requirements for health insurance providers as part of his... Read more

“Lessen Evil” Votes for Hillary? (vs. Mark Shea)

Last updated on: April 7, 2017 at 4:44 pm By Dave Armstrong

Photograph of Mark Shea from You Tube, posted on his “Books, CDs, and DVDs” web page. ***** This exchange (slightly edited to stick to this immediate subject matter) took place on my Facebook page today. Mark Shea’s words will be in blue. *** [Note: it’s true that in the Facebook discussion I did confuse the primary and general election vote in analyzing Mark’s statements, which came out later, but Mark did urge folks in some situations to vote for Hillary... Read more

James White Bogus “Doctorate” Issue Redux

Last updated on: April 6, 2017 at 3:23 pm By Dave Armstrong

Has No One Ever Interacted With His Self-Defense? / White Takes His Lumps from Baptist Peter Lumpkins Photograph by “geralt” (3-3-14) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** (2-20-11) *** For some reason, Rich Pierce, associate of active Reformed Baptist anti-Catholic apologist James White, recently saw fit to bring up this issue on White’s blog. Perhaps it was because of this recent thread on Baptist pastor Peter Lumpkins’ blog. “Shamgar” who replied in it is White defender Mark Bainter, below. Lumpkins... Read more

Clement of Alexandria (d. c. 215) vs. Sola Scriptura

Last updated on: May 1, 2017 at 4:17 pm By Dave Armstrong

St. Clement of Alexandria: icon from before 1800 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (8-1-03) *** For preliminaries concerning my methodology and the burden of proof for showing if a Church Father believed in sola Scriptura, see my paper, Church Fathers & Sola Scriptura. *** The following passage has been offered as “proof” of Clement’s alleged belief in sola Scriptura: But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth,... Read more

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