Jim Anderson appears to be a Presbyterian, and is a former Catholic anti-Catholic. The following exchange occurred on a public Facebook page, below a shared meme that I had posted, regarding Catholic liturgy. Jim’s words will be in blue. This is a continuation of the exchange: Dialogue on Meritorious Works & the Gospel (6-30-23). ***** Dave, speaking to yourself is not a good sign. Please lose the extreme arrogance, and note that I said that I don’t hang around on Facebook... Read more
I always get a huge response when I write about this topic. I’m writing about it again, not for that reason, but because it came up on my Facebook page after I posted a meme concerning it, and I had some things to say that I thought were worthy of a blog article. Here are my past offerings on the subject: Posture During the “Our Father” Over Against the Rubrics [7-7-08] Holding Hands at Mass During the “Our Father” [2-19-14]... Read more
Jim Anderson appears to be a Presbyterian, and is an anti-Catholic. The following exchange occurred on a public Facebook page, below a shared meme that I had shared, regarding Catholic liturgy. Jim’s words will be in blue. ***** How one holds one’s hands during prayer is wholly irrelevant. It is what is in one’s heart that matters. Armstrong seems to be tied up in religious rituals, but he may not realize he is seriously misleading earnest Catholics into thinking these... Read more
Mark Liberman is a linguist, with a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is the founder of (and frequent contributor to) Language Log, a blog frequented by dozens of professional linguists, which is one of the most widely used blogs dealing with linguistics. I was honored to have one of my articles cited on this blog, by Dr.... Read more
He Still Refuses to Admit that Many Eminent Lutheran Scholars Contend that Luther Believed in Mary’s Immaculate Conception for His Entire Life This has been an ongoing debate, going back literally over twenty years now. My initial wranglings with Reformed polemicist James Swan (who runs the Boors All blog) had to do with Luther’s Mariology. I refuted his contentions in great depth in two reply-articles, dated 4-26-03 and 6-28-03. Prior to June 2003 he had at least been outwardly cordial... Read more
[excerpt from my book, The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back Up the Bible (Catholic Answers Press: March 15, 2023, 271p), pp. 204-206] ***** How about a more “dramatic” and seemingly “fantastic” (and Old Testament-like) alleged event, such as Herod (Agrippa) being “eaten by worms” (Acts 12:21–23)? Christians can’t possibly defend that, can they? Actually, we can plausibly do so. Jewish-Roman historian Josephus provides a corroborating parallel account: Now when [Herod] Agrippa had reigned three years... Read more
[originally posted on Facebook, 2-10-21] An atheist (Vixen Crabtree) wrote: Chapter two of Matthew tells us of King Herod’s anger at the three wise men and then of the killing of every child. Surely, the slaughter of every male child (Matthew 2:16-18) in Bethlehem, Ramah, and the surrounding area would have got mentioned in many places, such as Josephus’ detailed accounts of the times, in fact it would likely cause the downfall of such an immoral, monstrous leader who issued... Read more
Atheist charge: According to Matthew 26:15, the chief priests gave “thirty pieces of silver” to Judas. But how is that possible, since there were no silver coins used as currency in Jesus’ time, and there had not been any for about 300 years? * This is untrue. The shekel was made of silver, and was in use in Israel in the first century A.D. The silver shekel (94% or more pure) was first produced in Tyre (present-day Lebanon) in 125... Read more
+ Do the Several Third-Person References to Moses in the Pentateuch Prove That He Didn’t Write It? [originally posted on Facebook on 13-14 December 2022] * My atheist friend “Lex Lata” wrote on 11-30-22: * A few passages in the Torah depict Moses writing specific things down, but the ‘Pentateuch never claims divine or Mosaic authorship.’ [he makes a link there, but he agrees with it] The books of the Torah are broadly anonymous on their face. The tradition of... Read more
Catholicism: The Elect Are Predestined; Reprobate in 1 Peter 2:8; God’s Providence (We Agree!); False Prophet as God’s “Tool”; Good Ol’ Romans 9 The late Steve Hays (1959-2020) was a Calvinist (and anti-Catholic) apologist, who was very active on his blog, called Triablogue . His 819-page self-published book, Biblical Calvinism has graciously been made available for free. On 9 September 2006, Hays was extraordinarily charitable towards me (seeing that almost all anti-Catholics have treated me like Vlad the Impaler). He wrote... Read more
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