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The Catholic Verses: Introit<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI sometimes feel sorry for ancient artists. Their work gets plastered all across the covers of modern books, but they never get a dime for their efforts. It\u2019s a shame. That odd observation aside, I picked up a copy of Dave Armstrong\u2019s The Catholic Verses: 95 Bible Passages That Confound Protestants<\/em> (Sophia Institute Press, 2004, 235 pp.), which sports said ancient art (a di Bondone painting) on its cover. I\u2019m a Protestant, and I have yet to be confounded by Dave Armstrong, so I thought it might be interesting to invest some time in using it as a resource here on the blog.<\/span><\/p>\nLikewise, I was listening to a debate between a Church of Christ minister and Bill Rutland, another Roman Catholic apologist, yesterday. I was fascinated by Rutland\u2019s bold assertions about the Greek language (I\u2019ll be addressing him in time). When RC apologists like Armstrong and Rutland promote arguments in their writings and debates that are, in fact, invalid, we have a duty to respond to them, even if we have, in fact, responded to similar kinds of errors dozens of times in the past. Why? Because the folks you may be seeking to win to the gospel may have a copy of The Catholic Verses<\/em> on their nightstand, or a CD of Rutland\u2019s in their car.<\/span><\/p>\nNow, of course, DA will respond with text files (liberally salted with URL\u2019s) that will average 10x the word count of anything I have to say. That\u2019s OK. I shall win the award for brevity and concise expression, and let him take home the bragging rights to verbosity and bandwidth usage. Thankfully, there are folks \u201cin channel\u201d who can help me find out if there is, in fact, anything at all of substance in said replies, and if there is, I will seek to note it, again for only one reason: the edification of the saints both in their confidence in the gospel and in their preparation for the task of proclamation.<\/span><\/p>\nSo we will begin with one of the classic passages in the Catholic\/Protestant debate: 2 Thessalonians 2:15. I will start there in the next installment simply because Armstrong notes The Roman Catholic Controversy in his book, hence, his section on the verse should \u201cconfound\u201d my own exegesis of the text. Does it? We shall see.<\/span><\/p>\n*****<\/p>\n
Yes we shall. I think we\u2019ll \u201csee\u201d quite a bit if White intends to take up this discussion in earnest. Just for fun, I will write less words than he does (which is difficult, seeing that his analyses are so filled with errors and misrepresentations \u2014 especially of my own arguments \u2014 that \u201cbrevity\u201d is quite the gargantuan task and an exercise in extreme self-control, for one literally surrounded by falsehoods to be responded to briefly). That will provide a true challenge from White, for a change (if only indirectly), which would be nice.<\/p>\n
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