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THE PROTESTANT’S DILEMMA BY DEVIN ROSE: A REVIEW
Just a writer, who refuses to typecast his blog by giving it a title ^ | March 18, 2014 | Scott Eric Alt

Posted on 03/19/2014 1:32:10 PM PDT by rwa265

If a Protes­tant look­ing into the claims of Catholi­cism were to ask me, “What one book should I read, where I can find a quick answer to any ques­tion I have?” I would tell him to read Devin Rose’s new book The Protestant’s Dilemma. I would also rec­om­mend this book to Protes­tant apol­o­gists, even those of many years, well-skilled in polemics. It will remind them of the heavy bur­den of proof they face, and the weak­ness of their posi­tion on point after point. The truth may set them free and bring them home too. (It has happened.)

All this may seem like over­state­ment — the oblig­a­tory praise from one Catholic blog­ger to another. But it is not.

Con­sider first the range of issues this book takes up. There are thirty-six chap­ters, each one on a dif­fer­ent topic, from the papacy to sola scrip­tura, from the canon of the Bible to Pur­ga­tory, from con­fes­sion to Eucharist to infant bap­tism. If some­thing about the Catholic Church trou­bles you, this book has the answer. If you think you have found the point on which Catholi­cism fails, this book will show you why it is one more point upon which Protes­tantism fails.

Con­sider also the brevity. The book is just over 200 pages long, which means that Mr. Rose’s answers get to the root of the ques­tion with­out a knot of aca­d­e­mic detail. It is harder to do than it might seem. This is the book of a man who has spent a long time study­ing the ques­tions that divide Protes­tants and Catholics, and who knows how to present his case in a way that is easy for any­one to under­stand. At the same time, the book is use­ful for the pro­fes­sional apol­o­gist, for it recalls his mind to the basics.

(Excerpt) Read more at scottericalt.com ...


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To: boatbums
How come you can't answer my question, Verga? I'll ask it again:

What part of: "you are upset about the Holy Spirit picking men that are human," isn't clear?

Your not one of those quasi modalists that doesn't believe that the Holy Spirit isn't God are you?

Let me make it very clear for you: God is responsible for picking every single man that sat on the throne of Peter. the same God that pickled the worst Pope (Whoever you think it is this week) is the same God that guides the Catholic Church in all truth and has promised that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Catholic Church.

341 posted on 03/21/2014 4:53:33 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: boatbums
We can't help it if you conveniently skip over all the positive contributions Elsie has made to the conversation.

And yet not one listed.

342 posted on 03/21/2014 4:54:37 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: verga

I already told you I posted all I needed or intended.


343 posted on 03/21/2014 5:00:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom; boatbums
And as bb pointed out, God did not put any of them in charge of any of His people. Ever.

Maybe you should consider reading the Bible before regurgitating another personas errors. Acts 1:20 "For," said Peter, "it is written in the Book of Psalms: "'May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,' and, "'May another take his place of leadership.'

344 posted on 03/21/2014 5:03:20 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg; LurkingSince'98

It’s not just Protestants who advocate confessing directly to God.

Those OT passages show that the Jews did it as well.


345 posted on 03/21/2014 5:04:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
I already told you I posted all I needed or intended.

But that wasn't the question was it? Here is again: Have you figured out the rest of it yet?

A literate person would know it off the top of their head.

Are you saying a Catholic actually knows something you don't. Because that is the message I am receiving from your refusal to answer.

346 posted on 03/21/2014 5:09:25 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: verga

What did Judas lead?


347 posted on 03/21/2014 5:31:19 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: verga
Are you saying a Catholic actually knows something you don't. Because that is the message I am receiving from your refusal to answer.

I can't help what you think.

348 posted on 03/21/2014 5:34:10 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
And how about one from the New Testament I forgot, and shame on me for not thinking of it first of all:

“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'" - Matthew 6:9-13

349 posted on 03/21/2014 6:28:35 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: metmom

Still waiting for you to answer my question, I seem to be answering yours.


350 posted on 03/21/2014 6:48:48 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: metmom

I pity you and pray that you will find the courage to come to Jesus.


351 posted on 03/21/2014 6:51:47 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: verga; boatbums
I pity you and pray that you will find the courage to come to Jesus.

Another miracle. God answered that one 37 years before you prayed it.

I don't need or want your pity. Save it for someone else.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

352 posted on 03/21/2014 7:12:32 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: verga; Elsie
We can't help it if you conveniently skip over all the positive contributions Elsie has made to the conversation.

And yet not one listed.

And you only proved what I said...you conveniently skipped over them. All you had to do was take a look see on this VERY thread VERY recently...posts #315, 316 & 317 were all posted by Elsie and listed specific Scripture passages that answered the false assertion that Christians are not ever to "judge". As Elsie demonstrated, that's NOT God's viewpoint at all. Rarely do we see the same level of thoroughness from y'all. Also, like I said, I find Elsie's posts helpful and appreciate his humor when it is offered. Perhaps if he was a Roman Catholic and was using the same attitude towards those you despise, you'd be downright proud to call him friend?

353 posted on 03/21/2014 7:19:04 PM PDT by boatbums (Simul justis et peccator.)
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To: verga
Let me make it very clear for you: God is responsible for picking every single man that sat on the throne of Peter. the same God that pickled the worst Pope (Whoever you think it is this week) is the same God that guides the Catholic Church in all truth and has promised that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Catholic Church.

I'm sure the drunkenness of some made them "pickled", but you can't blame God for that! ☺

Then your answer is that God failed the Roman Catholic Church by intentionally hand picking the DDDPs? I have a higher view of Him than you, apparently, because I tend to believe He would NEVER intend for men that failed HIS OWN QUALIFICATIONS for leaders within the church to be the HEAD of all the churches. Nope, depraved men were responsible for the depraved Popes sitting where they did. They allowed it because of their own greed and depravity. And they are ALL yours, the Reformers like the earliest believers would have never tolerated such!

354 posted on 03/21/2014 7:26:27 PM PDT by boatbums (Simul justis et peccator.)
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To: boatbums

Elsie’s list of logical fallacies in post 92 is also very helpful, along with his Scripture verses about no other Rock but Jesus.

Elsie is a wealth of Scripture passages.


355 posted on 03/21/2014 7:29:18 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom

So you are coming back to the Catholic Church, Jesus will be excited.


356 posted on 03/21/2014 7:30:48 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: ealgeone

Did you mean this for ME?


357 posted on 03/21/2014 7:31:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: boatbums
Then your answer is that God failed the Roman Catholic Church by intentionally hand picking the DDDPs? I have a higher view of Him than you, apparently, because I tend to believe He would NEVER intend for men that failed HIS OWN QUALIFICATIONS for leaders within the church to be the HEAD of all the churches. Nope, depraved men were responsible for the depraved Popes sitting where they did. They allowed it because of their own greed and depravity. And they are ALL yours, the Reformers like the earliest believers would have never tolerated such!

And for standing up for righteousness and against the evil and depravity that infested the Catholic church, those who didn't want to hear it, ex-communicated Luther.

So much for the gates of hell not prevailing against the Catholic church.

Looks like they were prevailing just fine.

358 posted on 03/21/2014 7:31:50 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: boatbums

I asked you to present them, you said they existed, yet didn’t. ergo they do not exist. When you ask Catholics for evidence, we present it and you ignore it. You failed epically.


359 posted on 03/21/2014 7:32:19 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: boatbums
How come you can't answer my question, Verga?

He's too busy praying that you'll come to Christ some day.

360 posted on 03/21/2014 7:32:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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