Is This Proof that They Are His Siblings? Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1886), by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * * * (8-31-09) * * * * * This exchange occurred on the CHNI forum. The person who asked the questions is, by his own description, “Raised RC, denominational orphan, post-Protestant.” I suspect that he may have come up with this question through the influence of a Protestant source or direct challenge... Read more
Patristic & Later Catholic Tradition & Contrary Early Heretical Sects’, Protestant, & Modernist Corruptions of It Baptism of Christ (1895), by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850-1899) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * * * This post is a follow-up to a controversial piece I wrote two days ago: “Young Messiah” Denies Christological Certainties. See also earlier related papers of mine: Jesus Had to Learn That He Was God? and Biblical Evidence for Jesus’ Omniscience. I will be drawing all of the... Read more
Christ in the House of His Parents (1850), by John Everett Millais (1829-1896) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * The Young Messiah is the latest “Bible movie” to appear. The problem is that it’s not (technically speaking) all that “biblical.” We know very little about Jesus’ childhood, and so the film draws from extrabiblical sources of mostly dubious historical value. For background’s sake, it’s drawn from Anne Rice‘s 2005 novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. Rice has since... Read more
“The man with the burden”, illustration from John Bunyan’s dream story (based on Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress); abridged by James Baldwin (1841-1925). Illustrator: Rachael Robinson Elmer (d. 12 February 1919) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * From my book, Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (except that the passages are RSV rather than KJV, as in the book; also there are a few minor textual differences from the book). * * * 1 John 5:16-17 If any one sees his brother committing... Read more
vs. Ken Temple (Reformed Baptist) St. John the Evangelist, by Vicente Juan Masip (1510-1579) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * (4-14-06) * * * Ken’s words will be in green. In the “second round,” my older words will be in purple. Ken’s old words will be in blue. * * * * * Your paper fails to distinguish between spiritual final death in hell, (the second death, the lake of fire- Rev. 20:14-15) and physical death. Why do... Read more
. . . so it Would Sure Seem, Given his Ridiculous Attacks on Fr. Dwight Longenecker Photograph by Ryan Hyde (6-15-10) [Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 license] * * * * * Fr. Dwight Longenecker, fellow Patheos blogger and friend, wrote a piece entitled, “Ten Traits of Catholic Fundamentalism” (3-7-16). Michael Matt is the editor of the radical Catholic reactionary organ, The Remnant. Astonished and scandalized by Fr. Dwight’s perfectly reasonable article, Matt replied with an article (3-9-16) demanding that... Read more
(vs. Mark Cameron) Ruins of St Mary’s Abbey Church in York, England. Photograph by “Kaly99” (5 August 2007) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * [see my original paper, now being disputed, and my definition of “radical Catholic reactionary”] * * * (24 November 2000. Terminology revised on 7 August 2013 and 9 March 2016) * * Mark’s words will be in blue:* * * * * I was disappointed by your paper on... Read more
Compilation of public domain and Creative Commons caricatures by “DonkeyHotey” (14 January 2016) [Flickr / CC-BY-SA 2.0 license] * * * * * Here are some thoughts of mine from a ferociously contentious Facebook thread today (see it for the full exchanges), which was (ostensibly) about an earlier article of mine devoted to Donald Trump. Many seemed to be under the mistaken impression that I am either contending that Trump is 1) perfect and saintly, 2) the best of the original 17... Read more
Portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546), the founder of Protestantism (1545); workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * [originally posted on 15 September 2003, in reply to a Reformed Protestant] * * * This problem exists, always has, and always will, and can’t be overcome by any Protestant internal principles, no matter how nuanced and sophisticated and respectable and truly in line with “Reformation heritage”. The reason for that is very simple:... Read more
+ Trump’s Ten Policy Points & Analysis of Catholics & the Democrat Party Donald Trump at a New Hampshire Town Hall on 19 August 2015 at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH. Photograph by Michael Vadon [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license] [originally published on 1-6-16] * * * * * This is taken from exchanges on my Facebook page today. Dr. Edwin Tait is a friend who is an Anglican Church historian, very favorable to Catholicism. I asked him to describe... Read more
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