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April 2013

April 24, 2013

Leonardo De Chirico Has Fun With Semantics

Those cultic, pagan Romanists, not content just to add books to the the Bible, now...

April 24, 2013

Why Jason Stellman Has Protestantism Nailed

Jason Stellman is spot-on in his exposure of the Protestant double-standard on infallibility; i.e., that...

April 24, 2013

Regarding the First Protestant Critique of Pope Francis’s Words on Finding Jesus in the Church

Yesterday I predicted that it would not only be dissenters within the Church, but also...

April 20, 2013

The Amazing Mr. X Riddles Us More on Papal Infallibility

I am worried about Mr. X. Normally, he is one of the abler critics of...

April 19, 2013

The Amazing Mr. X Plays Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That

Time and again, the Protestant apologist lacks a basic understanding of the point of infallibility....

April 12, 2013

The Papacy, Necessity, and Unbroken Succession: A Reply to Mr. X

Mr. X---the redoubtable TurretinFan---has directed me to six arguments he has made against the Catholic...

April 10, 2013

The Necessity Argument Against the Papacy

Occasionally an anti-Catholic apologist will attempt to discredit the papacy, or the priesthood, or some...

April 08, 2013

Is John Bugay’s Rejection of Infallibility Infallible?

Given the basis of Mr. Bugay’s critique, one would think he’d be grateful for the...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

Rhology’s Ontological Error About Mary

This is the latest in a series of back-and-forth posts between myself and Buggers All....

February 06, 2013

John Bugay’s False Understanding of Infallibility

In a recent post, John Bugay, the polemical rogue, begins with this strange question: “Over...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

The Apostles Are Also Theopneustos

Dr.* James White and I would agree that the sense of the word theopneustos has...

January 22, 2013

White Man’s Burden Redux

From the start of his Dividing Line "rebuttal" to my earlier article "Questions for a...

January 15, 2013

Questions for a Reformed Apologist

Who was the first person to articulate a defense of sola scriptura by speaking of...

January 11, 2013

John Bugay’s Eisegetical Creativity

The most powerful argument that Catholic apologists have against sola scriptura is that it is...

January 09, 2013

Did Adam & Eve Practice Sola Scriptura?

Unusual as the question sounds, this is in fact the claim that the polemical rogue...

January 03, 2013

John Bugay & the Westminster Confession on the Perspicuity of Scripture

Over on Failablogue today (he calls it Triablogue, which I think is optimistic), the polemical...