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January 2026

January 23, 2026

Reply to a Calvinist Defender of Total Depravity

His words are in blockquotes below, time-stamped to the video, so you can find each...

January 21, 2026

Total Depravity Debunked by the Bible

This is the transcript of the initial presentation of the video with the same...

November 2024

November 21, 2024

Limited Atonement Biblical Arguments Refuted

33 NT Passages Against Limited Atonement and in Favor of Universal Atonement "Turretinfan" is a...

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Calvinism: Tiny Minority Historically & Demographically

[see book and purchase info.] In a discussion on an atheist blog, I stated that...

October 2021

October 12, 2021

Jesus vs. James White on Who Can be Saved

This is a reply to an article by Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White: Pope Benedict XVI Continues...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Limited Atonement: Refutation of James White

This is a reply to an article by Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White: Was Anyone Saved at...

January 2021

January 21, 2021

Bible vs. the Reformed Doctrine of Total Depravity

See book and purchase information for this book of mine (2010). This article is taken...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Does God “Want” Men to Sin? Does He “Ordain” Sin?

I've often heard Calvinists deny that they believe God is the author of sin, and...

May 2020

May 15, 2020

Armstrong Fan Club #7: Fun Insults from James White

Bishop "Dr." [???] James White is the most influential and well-known anti-Catholic (Reformed Baptist) apologist...

May 07, 2020

Salvation is a Process & Not Instantaneously Assured

From my book, Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (2009), except that here I use the...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Vs. James White #3: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 2

This is a continuing reply to the arguments of James White: from his oral debate...

September 17, 2019

Vs. James White #2: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 1

This will be a reply to the James White Opening Argument of a debate between...

September 16, 2019

Vs. James White #1: “Papal Pretensions” & “New” Apologists

James White wrote his first known anti-Catholic article in May 1991, for the Pros Apologian...

September 14, 2019

Anti-Catholic James White: Many Critiques Forthcoming

Many of you who have followed my work know that there is a long (and...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Ecumenical Dialogue: Protestant & Catholic Soteriology

C. Michael Patton (Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary, 2001) started the Credo House (formally, Reclaiming the...

December 2018

December 09, 2018

Was Calvin a Supralapsarian? (Dialogue w Calvinist)

[David W. Ponter's words will be in blue] ***** It's absurd to say that Calvin...

September 2018

September 22, 2018

Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace?

My friend, the ecumenical Reformed Presbyterian (OPC) "Pilgrimsarbour" started discussing and defending three of the...

September 22, 2018

2nd Council of Orange: “Sola Gratia” vs. Total Depravity

A Calvinist stated: "I am having trouble distinguishing the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity from...

September 21, 2018

Calvinist Total Depravity: Does Romans 1 Apply to All Men?

***** For background, see my paper, Total Depravity: Reply to James White: Calvinism and Romans...

September 20, 2018

Dialogue: Molinism & How God Predestines (Pt. IV)

See Part I and Part II and Part III. "JS" is a Catholic and a...

September 20, 2018

Dialogue: Molinism & How God Predestines (Pt. III)

See Part I and Part II. "JS" is a Catholic and a Thomist. Note the different...

September 19, 2018

Dialogue: Molinism & How God Predestines (Pt. II)

See Part I. Words of "JOS": a Thomist, will be in blue. My older cited...

September 17, 2018

Predestination & the Ingenious “Solution” of Fr. Most

This will be a collection of interesting, thought-provoking material I have dug up today in...

September 13, 2018

Dialogue on Molinism and on How God Predestines

I received the following letter from a fellow Catholic and asked permission to post it...

September 12, 2018

Dialogue on God’s Middle Knowledge & Foreknowledge

vs. Dr. Alexander Pruss The following is my friendly dialogue (from 1997) with Dr. Alexander...

September 12, 2018

Calvinist Total Depravity vs. Catholic Concupiscence

I think an orthodox "Reformation" Calvinist would agree with the definition of Total Depravity in The...

September 11, 2018

Catholic Teaching: Predestination of the Elect (Ludwig Ott)

* The Catholic Church, following St. Augustine (e.g., Grace and Free Will, 1, 1; Sermon...

September 03, 2018

Comparative Soteriology (Salvation): A Handy Chart

TOTAL DEPRAVITY CALVINISM Yes ARMINIANISM See note LUTHERANISM See note CATHOLICISM No All these belief-systems accept original sin and sola...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Do Catholics Believe in Predestination? Yes! But . . .

This was a chapter, intended for, but not included in my book, The One-Minute Apologist (2007). *****...

May 2018

May 01, 2018

Catholic Predestination, Molinism, & Thomism in a Nutshell

The Catholic teaching is neither Pelagian (basically, "salvation by works") nor semi-Pelagian (saved partially by...

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