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September 2015

September 15, 2015

St. Paul was a Priest, According to the Evidence of Holy Scripture

Saint Paul, by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * *...

September 15, 2015

The Common Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

By Jan Tik [Flickr / CC by 2.0 license] * * * * * It's...

September 14, 2015

Debunking the Mythical Protestant Notion of the Invisible Church

Photo by "wolter_tom" [public domain / Pixabay] * * * * * Our Protestant...

September 14, 2015

A Calvinist Dialogues with the Ghost of Plato (Christianity & Philosophy)

Plato: marble copy of the portrait made by Silanion, c. 370 BC for the Academia...

September 14, 2015

Does the Catholic Church Think it is Superior to the Bible?

[Pixabay / public domain] The Catholic Church assuredly does not claim any such thing; only...

September 14, 2015

Why Do Catholic Bibles Have Seven More (Deuterocanonical) Books?

Page from Codex Vaticanus Septuagint, from 1209. The Greek Septuagint Bible contained the deuterocanonical...

September 13, 2015

“Right” & “Left”: Applicable to Theology and Ecclesiology?

Or, "Do 'right' and 'left' properly apply (by analogy) to an ecclesiastical spectrum as well...

September 13, 2015

Biblical Evidence for the Continuation of Priests as an Office

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) in 1956 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * *...

September 12, 2015

Biblical Evidence for “Holy Father” and “Vicar of Christ”

Come Unto Me, by Carl Bloch (1834-1890) [Flickr / CC by 2.0 license] Anti-Catholic reformed Baptist...

September 12, 2015

St. Peter Sinking (Faith, Doubt, and Jesus’ Expectations)

Peter sinking in the water after walking on it [Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0...

September 12, 2015

A Defense of Allegedly “Idolatrous” Marian Devotions

. . . "Case Study" of the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Our Mother...

September 11, 2015

Pope Francis’ Encyclical “Laudato si”: Beautiful Christian Environmentalism

Pope Francis at Varginha in southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil (27 July 2013) [Wikimedia Commons...

September 11, 2015

Was the Catholic Church Historically an “Enemy” of the Bible?

Wenceslas Bible, a German translation from 1389: almost a hundred years before Martin Luther...

September 11, 2015

A “Beautiful Woman” According to God’s Word, the Bible

One of my all-time favorite photos of my wife Judy, from 10 February 1984, at...

September 10, 2015

Do Carnivores on Noah’s Ark Disprove Christianity?

Dried fish or meat, such as beef jerky (pictured above), have been eaten since very...

September 10, 2015

Biblical Evidence for Veneration of Angels and Men

Abraham and the Three Angels, engraving by Gustave Doré (1832-1883) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *...

September 10, 2015

Mary as the “Spouse of the Holy Spirit”: Is it Blasphemy?

The Annunciation, Philippe de Champaigne, 1644 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * *...

September 10, 2015

Christians or Theists Were the Founders of 115 Scientific Fields

+ 34 Prominent Priest-Scientists and Mathematicians (8-20-10) Georges Lemaître, Belgian Catholic priest (1894-1966), c. 1933....

September 09, 2015

Was the Renaissance a Good or Bad Thing, Overall?

The Baptistry, Florecne, Tuscany, Italy, c. 1897. It was constructed between 1059 and 1128 in...

September 09, 2015

Do Only Ignoramuses & Simpletons Believe in Adam & Eve?

[public domain / Pixabay] This came about from my being made aware of the post, Neglected Factors in the Historical Adam and Eve Debate,...

September 09, 2015

Did Martin Luther Deny the Canonicity of the Book of Esther?

The Rabbula Gospels: a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book: one of the finest Byzantine works produced in Asia (Folio 4v showing the canon...

September 09, 2015

Biblical Evidence & Defenses for Expensive Church Buildings

Interior of Cologne Cathedral (photo by Pedro Szekely, 10-28-11) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0...

September 08, 2015

Was Jesus Confused About His Mission and Identity?

Jesus was neither "confused" nor did He wonder what His mission was at any time....

September 08, 2015

What it FEELS Like to Visit Golgotha

Christ on the Cross, c. 1874, by Leon Bonnat (1833-1922) [public domain / Wikimedia...

September 07, 2015

Must Christianity be Empirically Falsifiable to be Rationally Held?

--- Positivist Myths and Fallacies Debunked by Philosophers and Mathematicians --- [originally posted on 7-14-10;...

September 07, 2015

Adam & Eve & Original Sin: Have They Been Disproven by Science?

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve [engraving], 1504 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] This is an exchange (currently abridged to tighten...

September 06, 2015

Is the Mass a Re-Sacrifice? (vs. Lutheran Pastor Ken Howes)

Golgotha: the site of Jesus' crucifixion: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem [Wikimedia Commons...

September 06, 2015

John Wesley’s View of Purgatory and Analogous Processes

- - - A Classic Case Study of Inadvertent Approximation of the Very Catholic Teaching He...

September 05, 2015

Is America a “Moral Sewer” (Due to All-Pervasive Secularism)?

Camden, New Jersey is one of the poorest cities in the United States. It suffers from...

September 05, 2015

Reverence of Communion in the Hand: Biblical Considerations

Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)...

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