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Un-Protestant Bible #4: Matthew 25 vs. Faith Alone

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:08 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Summary: Presbyterian Matt Slick asked me in 2003 what I would say to God if He asked me why I should go to heaven. I looked up 50 related Bible passages & the results were shocking! * Introduction: Is Matthew 25 an “Un-Protestant” passage? Dave Armstrong joins Kenny Burchard to break it down. In today’s episode of Catholic Bible Highlights, Kenny sits down with Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong to look closely at Matthew 25:31-46 — the Judgment of... Read more

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2026-06-13T13:07:58-04:00

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Big Plans for Catholic Bible Highlights in 2026!

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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I am partnering with former Protestant pastor and Coming Home Network employee Kenny Burchard on the YouTube channel, Catholic Bible Highlights, and have done 46 videos so far over the past year (see the list). We should be able to do relatively more videos this year because we’re making shorter ones, per the trend now (more like a half-hour, rather than an hour), and will be doing scores and scores of “shorts” too (2-3 minute videos). So the sky’s... Read more

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2025-11-25T19:47:36-04:00

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My “One-Stop” Catholic Blog Outlined in Detail

Last updated on: November 25, 2025 at 7:47 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Biblical Evidence for Catholicism has been online since February 1997 and won the Catholic Website of the Year award from Patrick Madrid’s Envoy Magazine in 1998. [see how the front page looked on 2 December 1998). In these early years of the Internet my website was one of the relatively few extensive Catholic ones; especially ones run by one person (Jimmy Akin already had a very good one, as I recall). I was a “big fish in a little pond”... Read more

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2026-06-13T13:07:58-04:00

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My Apologetics Work: Interview with Kenny Burchard

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Summary: Hourlong chat with my YouTube partner Kenny Burchard about my evangelical & Catholic conversions, my books & blog, the helpfulness of debates, and big plans for our channel. Kenny’s Introduction: For 40+ years, apologist and author Dave Armstrong has been defending the Christian faith. For 35 of those years, Dave has been doing it as a CATHOLIC Apologist, proving from Scripture that biblical Christianity and Catholicism are synonyms for the same thing. Join Kenny Burchard for an “up... Read more

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2025-11-24T22:03:29-04:00

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“Do” in the NT vs. “Faith Alone” (40 Passages)

Last updated on: November 24, 2025 at 10:03 pm By Dave Armstrong

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I already have several articles along these lines: Bible vs. “Faith Alone”: 100 Proofs (100 Bible Passages On Catholic Justification, Sanctification, and Faith + Works [from 22 out of 27 NT Books]: All Disproving Protestant “Faith Alone” Soteriology) [8-26-24; revised and expanded on 9-10-24, 10-4-24, and 10-8-24] Salvation Caused by Actions: 80 Bible Passages (. . . Proving That “Faith Alone” is a False Doctrine) [10-5-24] Meritorious Works: 50 Biblical Proofs (Bible Passages On God’s Rewarding and Being Pleased by Grace-Originated Meritorious... Read more

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No Sacraments in the Early Church? Think Again!

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Summary: We disabuse Allie Beth Stuckey and anti-Catholic idol Mike Gendron of the myth that baptismal regeneration was not present in the earliest, apostolic Church or the Bible. Introduction: Does baptism save us? Allie Beth Stuckey and ex-Catholic Mike Gendron claim sacramental baptism isn’t biblical or found in early Christianity. We respond with direct quotes from Church Fathers, Protestant historians J.N.D. Kelly and Philip Schaff, and crystal-clear Bible verses (Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, 1 Peter 3:21, Acts 22:16). Discover... Read more

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2026-06-06T00:05:36-04:00

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Mary Mediatrix & Theological Grades of Certainty

Last updated on: June 6, 2026 at 12:05 am By Dave Armstrong

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Fr. Ludwig Ott wrote a well-known book called Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, in 1952 in German (English translation, 1955; available online for free). Dr. Ott revised the book in 1969 (8th edition). This was “fully revised and updated” in 2018 by my good friend, Dr. Robert Fastiggi, professor of systematic theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, and dedicated Mariologist (member of the Mariological Society of America, the International Marian Association, and an ordinary member of the Pontifical Marian... Read more

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Relics: Scripture vs. Baptist Gavin Ortund

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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His words are in blockquotes below, time-stamped to the video, so you can find each one in Gavin’s presentation. ***** Dr. Gavin Ortlund, a Reformed Baptist apologist, runs the very popular YouTube channel Truth Unites. Today we’re responding to various comments from his video, “Relics: A Protestant Critique” — from August 28th, 2021. 6:37-53 The Protestant concern is that as Church history develops, the use of relics develops and changes, and it gets to a point where it transgresses a boundary into... Read more

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Biblical Infant Baptism & Protestant Divisions

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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This is the transcript of the initial portion of the video, Jordan Cooper vs. Gavin Ortlund & the Infant Baptism Debate (9-19-25). Rev. Dr. Jordan Cooper is a Lutheran pastor who hosts the YouTube channel Just & Sinner, which currently has 72,000 subscribers. Reformed Baptist Dr. Gavin Ortlund runs the channel Truth Unites, which has 137,000 subscribers. They have engaged in an ongoing lively back-and-forth on the doctrine of baptism: sometimes appearing together in videos and other times making friendly reply-videos... Read more

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2026-06-13T13:07:43-04:00

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Biblical Teaching on Divorce, Remarriage, & Annulments

Last updated on: June 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Transcript of the initial presentation portion of the video, Divorce, Remarriage, and Annulments: What the Bible Really Says (9-16-25). ***** Jesus’ Clear Teaching Here what’s Jesus taught: Mark 10:11 (RSV) . . . Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; Luke 16:18 Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. Many have observed that if we had only these two verses... Read more

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