Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths<\/em><\/a> is that). Rather, the idea is the following (from the Introduction):<\/span><\/p>\n. . . a critique of common Protestant attempts to ignore, explain away, rationalize, wish away, overpolemicize, minimize, de-emphasize, evade clear consequences of, or special plead with regard to \u201cthe Catholic Verses\u201d: ninety-five biblical passages that provide the foundation for Catholicism\u2019s most distinctive doctrines. . . .<\/span><\/p>\nI will assert . . . the ultimate incoherence, inadequacy, inconsistency, or exegetical and theological implausibility of the Protestant interpretations, and will submit the Catholic views as exegetically and logically superior alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\nThe structure ensures that the volume is relatively more \u201cpolemical\u201d than other works of mine, but polemics is not a bad thing, if done right, and often in apologetics it is absolutely necessary. One must sometimes throw some \u201ccounter-punches,\u201d so to speak. I document and \u201cargue with\u201d inadequate Protestant responses to our prooftexts and show how even some of the best Protestant exegetes start to play games and special plead when they have no cogent alternative explanation.<\/span><\/p>\nThe two verses that were the most fun to deal with were the ones about \u201cbaptism for the dead\u201d (what I called \u201cthe most \u2018un-Protestant\u2019 verse in the Bible\u201d) and Paul\u2019s prayer for the dead man Onesiphorus. Protestant explanations for those passages might be described (with charity) as \u201chigh comedy.\u201d In any event, it makes for some entertaining reading to watch what they try to do with them. Apologetics is often a lot of fun!<\/span><\/p>\nFrom the book\u2019s Introduction:<\/p>\n
I shall contend throughout this book that, far too often, Protestants do not take all of Scripture into account, and that they are guilty of eisegesis (reading into Scripture one\u2019s own presuppositions), at least as often as Catholics are, if not more often. Protestants (especially on a popular level) often emphasize relatively few \u201cproof texts\u201d to the exclusion of a great deal of relevant biblical data.<\/p>\n
Moreover, only rarely do they seriously engage the biblical texts utilized by Catholics to support their positions through the centuries. In probably most cases, they are not even aware of any passages that a Catholic might use to prove anything that would be contrary to Protestantism. Habitually, they do not even entertain the possibility. For many Protestants, such a state of affairs is literally impossible. It is not supposed to happen. When Catholics and Protestants grapple over the Bible and its interpretation, Protestants must always win (so they casually assume).<\/p>\n
I hasten to add \u2013 and emphasize to the greatest degree \u2014 that these tendencies of bias and subjectivism and subconscious influence of denominational traditions do not necessarily entail a deliberate attempt to ignore or to twist Scripture. Every serious student of the Bible comes to the biblical text with a theological framework, in order to interpret it and make sense of it in its entirety. This is proper and right, and no one should have any objection to it.<\/p>\n
Both Catholics and Protestants engage in systematic theology, a method which involves finding proof texts for a given doctrine. In so doing, men will have honest disagreements, in good faith. We highly respect the devotion to Bible study and to theological reflection exhibited by many of our Protestant brethren \u2013 often putting Catholics to shame.<\/p>\n
. . .\u00a0This is not a scholarly work, as I am no scholar in the first place, but merely a lay Catholic apologist; but it is not \u201canti-scholarly,\u201d and I will incorporate scholarship wherever necessary to substantiate the argument.<\/p>\n
. . . I will assert \u2013 with all due respect and, I hope, with a minimum of \u201ctriumphalism\u201d \u2014 the ultimate incoherence, inadequacy, inconsistency, or exegetical and theological implausibility of the Protestant interpretations, and will submit the Catholic views as exegetically and logically superior alternatives.<\/p>\n
. . . If this book can convince the reader that Catholicism is at least as \u201cbiblically respectable\u201d as any brand of Protestantism, I will have succeeded in my goal. In any event, I trust that all students of the Bible will be interested in comparative exegesis and a side-by-side analysis of competing views. Of course my ultimate aim is persuasion, but increased understanding (even while disagreement remains) is also a worthy accomplishment.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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