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Catholicism does not exclude Protestants from being part of the Church, their separation is a matter of varying degrees. It's certain Protestants who refuse to understand what Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus really means. The meaning was first taught by the Apostles; the phrase summarizes consistent...

Your rant, loaded with factual errors and false histories, is typical of cults like the Seventh Day Adventists, or the Christadelphians, anti-Protestant and anti-Catholic. Come out of the shadows and identify who it is you are following. You say the church was driven underground due to...

For the millionth time, Catholicism does not teach salvation by works apart from grace, that is an anti-Catholic myth. McCarthy (along with many other Calvinist anti-Catholics) is unwilling or unable to understand the relationship of human free will to God’s grace. We believe we can cooperate...

The way I see it, the remarried are recovering from a damaged life, can't get an annulment, (or one is pending) want to receive, but can't under the old rules. They are not spiritual lepers, to be excluded from Communion. What ever happened to mercy? To add to the complication, what are the...

It's funny that Constantine leaned to the Arian view, but allegedly "presided" over the council that condemned it.

What is being received is dogmatic, the rules for receiving, in certain cases, are disciplinary. The Pope doesn't want to starve our wounded.

We identify "first century Christians" as the beginning of the historic institutional Church. Many non-denoms identify a band of first century "true believers", some allegedly corrupted by this same Church, but are unable to prove the existence of a group of "true believers" apart from the...

You are blending pagan worship with the mere eating of meat. They are two different things. Enjoying a rare steak has nothing to do with pagan worship. The culture had changed, making the prohibition redundant. The practice of sacrificing animals to false gods eventually died out in the entire...

You are blaming the Church for the existence of heretics. Why would you trust bishops to compile the books of the Bible? The Arian heresy is a good example of where heresies come from, and how the historic Church dealt with it. You seem to have your own private history so discussion on...

In Timothy’s case, what was at stake was how unbelieving Jews might best be won to Christ. So just as Christian freedom caused Paul to resist Titus’ circumcision, this same freedom allowed him to remove the stumbling block of Timothy’s lack of circumcision. Paul applied his principle from 1...

But you don't believe the Council of Jerusalem is the model for future councils. Yes, go into detail. I would expect scholarly references from Ph.D. historians written after 1960, and not the usual post-enlightenment crap that has been refuted a million times. Your remark is offensive. The...

Heretical bishops were not taught heresies, they taught their own heresies in opposition to the historic Church. See my signature. "Probably the most famous - and most important - example that contradicts formal sufficiency is all the heresy surrounding the Trinity. As Catholic Apologist Dave...

"As a sociologist who has taught Criminology and written about mass shootings, it is distressing to listen to all the chatter about Republicans and Democrats being blamed for the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Most of the talk is pure bunk. At the heart of the problem are what I call the...

1 John 1:8 is not wrong. We are all sinners. 1 John 1:8 Deal with it.

There is nothing in Scripture or history that God sends delusions. We are all sinners, as taught by Scripture, Orthodox, Catholics and most Protestants for 2000 years. Being "born again" does not remove ones humanity. You have a very private theology that contradicts 99.999% of Christiandom.

All Catholic doctrines are derived either directly or indirectly from Scripture. Scripture is the primary source, but not the only source. There is nothing in Scripture that says Scripture must be the only source, that is your man made tradition.

The point is, only God knows who is in the elect, and you have no business determining that. Being a sinner does not exclude a person from being in the church, as the parable of the publican clearly shows. Luke 18:9-14 I don't know how 1st century Christians could, as you say, "rightly divide...

Calvin seems to equate “elect” and “Church” here, which is a false equation, and tending towards the erroneous “invisible church” notion endemic among Protestants today. Elsewhere, he understands, however, that sinners are part of a visible, institutional Church as well. Apart from that, we...

This was on a public Facebook discussion thread on a friend’s Facebook page, underneath mention of a review of the above book of mine by Devin Rose. Greg Still describes himself as a “”skeptical Pentecostal” and is a former Catholic. His words will be in blue. Since you brought up the supposed...

There is no exclusive Scriptural mention of sola scriptura anywhere in the Bible, but you base all your doctrines on it.