Examples of these include how we worship Statues and Mary, how we mistakenly think of the Eucharist as actually being Jesus (think of that! Yet what about John Ch. 6?), and how our doctrine of purgatory is just some unbiblical, money-making scheme. ...
The Apocrypha (These are the books in the Catholic Bible which are between the Old and New Testament. Machabees is an example.) James Adair's History of the American Indians (This contains 23 arguments that American Indians are descendants of Hebrews. It also tells of buried plates (5 cop...
Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. Loosely translated: “The norm of prayer governs the norm of belief; the norm of belief governs the norm of living.” Many priests nowadays (including myself) are asking, “What if there’s deficientlexin theorandi? Won’t that diminish thecredendiand...
Notice Paul uses the word "seek" when speaking of immortality. None of these attributes he lists here are inherent to mankind. If they were, then the word "seek" would clearly be out of place. Again, Paul did not believe the Greek philosophers who taught the immortality of all souls, ...
Pietist small groups and Methodist class meetings are important examples of such mobilization, institutions that keep all this excitement from merely burning away in the air. Universities such as Asbury, alas, are almost guaranteed not to show much for such a revival. When it breaks out, ...
My recentIntro to Apologetics videogave some examples of self-defeating statements. Here’s another example. Continue reading→ Posted inPhilosophy,Science,Uncategorized|Taggedself-defeating,sim theory,simulation theory|2 Comments Addendum – Why do YOU believe?
How are dogmas both essentially unchangeable and yet open to development? Are dogmas accessible only in learned theological language or are there common-sense ways of understanding them? Journet addresses these and other important questions. He also discusses examples of dogmatic development: the dogmas...
What is not understood by contemplatives is that: 1. Christian contemplative prayers and meditation are identical with Eastern mantras and Eastern meditation; 2. When Eastern meditation is practiced, and “silence” is achieved, it produces an altered state of mind; 3. Eastern meditative techniques...
Lewis gives examples of different Islamic views regarding their history and the cause and effect of major inciting events that have regressed the Islamic culture. One major theme I found in Lewis’ book is that ethnocentrism has made Islamic ideology very foggy and unrealistic in terms of progressi...
I strongly suspect that the justification behind the death of Ananias and Sapphira lies in context specific to the 1st century church, so that Ananias and Sapphira serve as examples of God’s hatred of sin, an imperative to live a pure life in all things and at all times. I conjecture ...