Dr. Francis Beckwith Returns To Full Communion With The Church

The controversy we had with Marlowe was whether something analogous to the Fifth Amendment is a part of the Law of Moses. Marlowe says, it is not a part of the written Torah, and I contend that the Law of Moses is not restricted to the written Torah, so the absence of such written commandment does not prove anything.

Oh. Okay. Glad I could help.

I apologize for my misunderstanding and my hostile tone.

From Dr. White’s blog: Of course, folks like yours truly will ask all the boring questions, like, “How do you escape the circularity of the Roman claims regarding papal infallibility?” or “How can Rome’s claims, built as they were historically, upon such a wide variety of fraudulent documents, stand today in light of her own history?” And more to the point, “Do you really believe you can approach the Mass 20,000 times in your life and still die impure, and that this re-presentation is the same sacrifice as the perfect work you once professed to embrace?” Of course, those are the tough questions, which lead folks back to the inspired Scriptures, and that is the last place The Coming Home Network wants to go. Several years ago i had the pleasure of engaging Mr. White in an online debate about Sola Scriptura and kicking his butt (Ask him about the Bicycle shop). I refuse to call him Dr. since basically he purchased his degree. While I will be the first to admit that he did do a lot of reading, research, and writing in pursuit of his title his degree is not from an accreditied University and none of his papers was reviewed by a board. The "seminary" he "attended" is basically an office with a reception area and a computer. Every student is on line. The school has no class rooms, Library, bookstore etc.... You decide what you want to research and they create a syllabus for each student. I have asked him on several occasions to document his claims of fraudulent documents and every time the only thing he whines about is the "Donation of Constantine" I showed him letters of Clement and others proving Papal Primacy even documents from Eastern Fathers whcih have been copied and maintaned by a Calvanist Seminary (CCEL) and he refused to even address them. So much for scholarly integrity and rigor.

Whenever someone comes up with stuff about documents, I am ambivalent. I keep going back to Daniel Boone and his experience in Kentucky. He ended up being cheatted of all his claims in Kentucky because he didn’t have the documentation to prove ownership. Apparently, lots of early settlers got treated the same way. In part because no proper survey was ever done. Which is why, I suppose, that Congress man sure that the Northwest territory was surveyed and why, when one flies over it, one sees a perfect checkerboard pattern, but as soon as one crosses the Ohio and is over Kentucky, free form prevails. Relevance? Documents are instruments of government, and like so many tools, they tend to be discarded or put in the shed and forgotten. Van Sybel was given the task of cleaning up the Prussian archives—and this was the 19th Century—which were in a mess. Like archivists before him, he found state documents just heaped on shelves in a room and in no discernible order. The tidy results in print give no clue to the pieces he never found or found partly intact. History is sort of like that, even political history.

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