This was an exchange that I had (primarily) with my friend and fellow Catholic, Theo McManigal, on my Facebook page. His words will be in blue. ***** Someone wrote: “One reason I love Eastern Orthodoxy? A Married Priesthood. What a blessing!” I replied: “One reason I love Catholicism is because it retains the notion of heroic, self-sacrificing celibacy in (most of) her priests (not to mention nuns): a quite scriptural thing: extolled by both Jesus and St. Paul.” * I... Read more
— and Biblical Disproof #185 of sola Scriptura — Protestants tells us that there is no such thing as an infallible Church, and that only Scripture is the infallible source and standard and norm for the Christian faith and doctrine. We can never put our trust in Church or tradition as a guide to determine truth or falsity of propositions or rightness or wrongness of actions, since they are not guaranteed infallibility. So Protestants tell us, and this is their... Read more
Acts 1:20-26 (RSV) For it is written in the book of Psalms, `Let his habitation become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it’; and `His office let another take.’ [21] So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, [22] beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us — one of these men must... Read more
Justin is a Seventh-Day Adventist. His words (from a combox on my blog) will be in blue. ***** Ecclesia just means assembly or congregation, all examples of church in the NT are little c-churches. This is sheer nonsense (and an extraordinarily ignorant thing for any serious student of the Bible to assert): Acts 20:28 (RSV) Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which... Read more
[book and purchase information] Chronological List of Single Fathers Clement of Rome (d. 99) vs. Sola Scriptura [12-20-21] Ignatius of Antioch (d. c. 117) vs. Sola Scriptura [12-21-21] Papias (c. 60-c. 130) & the Rule of Faith [1-18-10] Papias (c. 60-c. 130) vs. Sola Scriptura [12-19-21] Polycarp (69-155) vs. Sola Scriptura [12-21-21] Justin Martyr (d. c. 165) vs. Sola Scriptura [8-1-03] Irenaeus (d. c. 200) vs. Sola Scriptura [8-1-03] Did I Take St. Irenaeus Out of Context (Rule of Faith)? [11-29-17] Clement of Alexandria (d. c. 215) vs. Sola Scriptura [8-1-03] Tertullian (c. 155-c. 220) vs. Sola... Read more
Protestant apologists, in tackling the topic of sola Scriptura and whether the Church fathers believed in it or not, very often argue as follows: Church Father X believes in sola Scriptura, because, look, see!: he praises Scripture in this place and that, and another over there, and says that Christians ought to read the Bible to learn theology! Obviously, then, he agrees with the formal Protestant principle of sola Scriptura! Who could possibly doubt it? But this is fallacious and illogical through and through. The proper approach to this topic... Read more
Protestant apologists, in tackling the topic of sola Scriptura and whether the Church fathers believed in it or not, very often argue as follows: Church Father X believes in sola Scriptura, because, look, see!: he praises Scripture in this place and that, and another over there, and says that Christians ought to read the Bible to learn theology! Obviously, then, he agrees with the formal Protestant principle of sola Scriptura! Who could possibly doubt it? But this is fallacious and illogical through and through. The proper approach to this topic... Read more
Protestant apologists, in tackling the topic of sola Scriptura and whether the Church fathers believed in it or not, very often argue as follows: Church Father X believes in sola Scriptura, because, look, see!: he praises Scripture in this place and that, and another over there, and says that Christians ought to read the Bible to learn theology! Obviously, then, he agrees with the formal Protestant principle of sola Scriptura! Who could possibly doubt it? But this is fallacious and illogical through and through. The proper approach to this topic... Read more
Protestant apologists, in tackling the topic of sola Scriptura and whether the Church fathers believed in it or not, very often argue as follows: Church Father X believes in sola Scriptura, because, look, see!: he praises Scripture in this place and that, and another over there, and says that Christians ought to read the Bible to learn theology! Obviously, then, he agrees with the formal Protestant principle of sola Scriptura! Who could possibly doubt it? But this is fallacious and illogical through and through. The proper approach to this topic... Read more
Protestant apologists, in tackling the topic of sola Scriptura and whether the Church fathers believed in it or not, very often argue as follows: Church Father X believes in sola Scriptura, because, look, see!: he praises Scripture in this place and that, and another over there, and says that Christians ought to read the Bible to learn theology! Obviously, then, he agrees with the formal Protestant principle of sola Scriptura! Who could possibly doubt it? But this is fallacious and illogical through and through. The proper approach to... Read more
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