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May 2022

May 15, 2022

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Praying to the Saints

Including a Reply Regarding the (Blasphemous?) "Excesses of Marian Prayers" from the Protestant Point of...

May 14, 2022

Reply #2 to Gavin Ortlund on Purgatory

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the...

May 12, 2022

Reply to Gavin Ortlund’s “Relics: A Protestant Critique”

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the...

May 12, 2022

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Purgatory

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the...

April 2022

April 27, 2022

Reply to Jordan Cooper: Invocation of Saints

Rev. Dr. Jordan B. Cooper is a Lutheran pastor, adjunct professor of Systematic Theology, Executive Director...

November 2021

November 21, 2021

Prayer to an Angel: An Explicit Biblical Example

Anti-Catholic Protestant apologist Jason Engwer wrote: Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian wrote treatises on the subject...

November 19, 2021

No Confession to Men in the Bible? Seriously? Read On . . .

[all verses RSV] Anti-Catholic Protestant apologist Jason Engwer wrote: I don't know what details you...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

Imitating Paul & Saints: Biblical Argument for Veneration

St. Paul made it very clear in many passages that we were to imitate and emulate...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

Dialogue on Prayers to Saints & for the Dead

Dorfpastor replied in the combox of my paper, Prayers to Saints & for the Dead: Six Biblical...

May 17, 2021

Veneration of Saints: God “In” and “Through” St. Paul

[see book and purchase information] * [originally posted on 5-17-13 on Facebook; expanded slightly on...

February 2021

February 17, 2021

Dialogue: Prayer For & To the Dead (w Dr. Lydia McGrew)

Dr. Lydia McGrew is a traditional Anglican philosopher. I am very fond of her and...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Purgatory in the Bible (vs. Calvin #60)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

Christmas: Theological (Reformed / Calvinist) Opposition

. . . With My Biblical and Historical Refutations I have always been fascinated and...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Golden Calf & Cherubim: Biblical Contradiction?

vs. Dr. Steven DiMattei Dr. Steven DiMattei is a biblical scholar and author, formally trained in the New...

November 11, 2020

Dialogue: Acts 9:40 and Prayers for (not to) the Dead

Luke Wayne has been a writer and researcher for the large Protestant online forum CARM...

November 10, 2020

Is Worship of God Through an Image Biblical?

Luke Wayne has been a writer and researcher for the large Protestant online forum CARM...

November 08, 2020

Dialogue: Purgatory & 2 Maccabees 12:39-45

Luke Wayne has been a writer and researcher for the large Protestant online forum CARM...

October 2020

October 16, 2020

Jason Engwer, Origen, & Intercession of Saints

Protestant apologist Jason Engwer (words in blue henceforth) stated on 5-28-15: [T]he evidence suggests that...

October 01, 2020

Prayer to Creatures Proven from Holy Scripture

This is a reply to Matt Slick: Presbyterian pastor and head of the large and...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Can Mary Hear “Simultaneous” Prayers of Millions?

This is a reply to Matt Slick: Presbyterian pastor and head of the large and...

September 21, 2020

Communion of Saints, Scripture, & Anti-Catholic Doug Mabry

With Emphasis Particularly on the Saul and [Dead] Samuel Incident As a preliminary, let me...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Indulgences & Distribution of Grace (vs. Calvin #58)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

August 20, 2020

Prayer for the Dead (vs. Calvin #57)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Martin Luther on Suffering, Mortification, & Sanctity

I compiled Luther's thoughts on these topics, as part of my book, The “Catholic” Luther:...

July 08, 2020

Should God the Father be Visually Depicted in Paintings?

Yes, as long as it is understood as “artistic license”. Literally speaking, the Bible teaches...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Veneration of Saints and Angels (vs. John Calvin)

[excerpt from my book, A Biblical Critique of Calvinism (Oct. 2012, 178p), pp. 87-95. Follow the link...

June 29, 2020

“Graven Images”: Unbiblical Iconoclasm (vs. John Calvin)

[excerpt from my book, A Biblical Critique of Calvinism (Oct. 2012, 178p), pp. 59-72. Follow the link...

June 26, 2020

Catholic Mystics & Contemplatives on Purgatory

[From my book, Quotable Catholic Mystics and Contemplatives (April 2014, 304p), pp. 224-230. Follow the link for...

June 24, 2020

“Turretinfan” Calls a Statue of Jesus Christ an “Idol”

. . . While His Buddy Bishop James White Praises the Statues of "Reformers" Calvin,...

June 08, 2020

Invocation of Saints: Jesus Allegedly “Calling on Elijah”

Matthew 27:46-49 (RSV) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli,...

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