. . . Absurd Alleged Biblical Indications Against Apostolic Tradition [see book information including purchase options] *** (10-20-11) * * * I am utilizing a copy of the book available at Internet Archive. *** Whitaker’s words will be in blue. Page numbers will correspond to the above book version. * * * I come now to another argument, the last of those touched upon by Bellarmine, and derived from various passages of scripture wherein traditions are condemned: as, Matth. xv.... Read more
Page from a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * (10-18-11) * * * I drew the following information from a fabulous article by a Messianic Jew, Reb Yhoshua, entitled, The Oral Torah and the Messianic Jew. I have been curious about this for some time, and found this article in a search. It’s a goldmine. The arguments are fascinating: agree or disagree. All Bible passages are RSV (and not directly cited from the article above, since he... Read more
(vs. Nathan Rinne) Lutheran church in Wittenberg, Germany where the Protestant Revolt began, with Martin Luther [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * (10-17-11) * * Nathan’s words will be in blue. * * * * * I concede that just because an early church father argues from Scripture this does not necessarily mean “that only Scripture has authority to rebuke error and bind people…”. Not necessarily. But – do we find the church fathers consistently... Read more
(vs. Nathan Rinne) Lutheran church in Wittenberg, Germany where the Protestant Revolt began, with Martin Luther [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * (10-14-11) * * Nathan’s words will be in blue. * * * Dave, I appreciate your approach and your clarity with which you write, but at the same time, it seems to me that right from the get-go you have not been nuanced enough in your presentation. You have, I believe unintentionally, misrepresented Chemnitz’s true position. ... Read more
(vs. Nathan Rinne) Lutheran church in Wittenberg, Germany where the Protestant Revolt began, with Martin Luther [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * (10-13-11) * * * Nathan’s words will be in blue. * * * * * First, I understand your frustration about Chemnitz questioning the sincerity of RCs, especially as regards their love for the Scriptures and their concern to interpret it properly. He does seem rather harsh, even if in his day he was not, and... Read more
(vs. Nathan Rinne) Lutheran church in Wittenberg, Germany where the Protestant Revolt began, with Martin Luther [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * (10-12-11) * * Nathan Rinne (words in blue in this paper) is a friendly and able Lutheran apologist, with whom I have been having cordial discussions. He first showed up on my blog with a comment under a post of mine about Luther. Nathan then started expressing interest in replying to my (five) critiques of Martin... Read more
. . . Including my Citation Mistake from 1994 (Clarification and Retraction) Posthumous Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk (after 1546), from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * (10-2-11) * * * I am not “anti-Luther.” I am opposed to tenets of Luther’s theology that I deem to be erroneous from a Catholic perspective. Catholics argue for Catholic theology; Lutherans for Lutheran theology. That’s not rocket science. But honest differences do... Read more
Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden (1866), by Gustave Doré (1832-1883) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (9-25-11; rev. 1-6-22) *** Words of Eric S. Giunta will be in blue. * * * * * The encyclical I cited (Humani Generis) allows the possibility of evolution, but it states that one must believe in a literal first human pair (rejection of polygenism) and that God creates a human soul at each conception. So this doesn’t follow from evolution per se.... Read more
Ven. Pope Pius XII’s encyclical, Humani Generis (12 August 1950) was designed (in the subtitle) to counter “some false opinions threatening to undermine the foundations of Catholic doctrine”: 37. When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural... Read more
. . . and Anti-Catholic blaming of Catholic apologists for them Posthumous Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk (after 1546), from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * (8-27-11) * * * It’s simply amazing, the amount of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda anti-Catholics dish out. They make Baghdad Bob (remember that clown?) look like Abraham Lincoln. I would have thought that my previous copiously documented examination of this nonsense had laid to rest... Read more
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