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 Roses new book The Protestants 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. Roses 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.
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Or asking Mary to convey that message to Jesus.
God has a plan and that plan includes everyone and everything. I pity you that you can’t trust God.
Lots of this going on in this thread.
I pray that you will be come Christian, or at least begin to act like one.
Purty good advice.
And from a catholic; too!
Example: "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? ...because it looks like you landed on your face."- Jimmy Carr
The compassion just oozes...
Nope. I'm done with bondage to works.
Galatians 5:1-6 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Colossians 2:20-23 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulationsDo not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch (referring to things that all perish as they are used)according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Oh YEAH!!??!!
Just wait 'til You're the butt of his jokes!!!
--Catholic_wannabe_Dude(Mary is waiting to take you in her arms.)
Nope.
The Catholics have given many lifetimes to preserving the Scriptures we do have.
And after them, we have plenty of other folks to be given praise for the lives (and deaths) that they gave in order for me to have such an abundance of material at my fingertips.
I am merely another messenger - an ass, if you will - that is trying to get the Word - God's message - to be looked at, read and understood.
I’ll leave the acting to you.
I’ll just be.
Roz, my tender, oozing blossom, you’re looking fabulous today. Is that a new haircut? Come on, tell me it’s a new haircut, isn’t it?
You have to admit the propensity for Italian Popes elected not to mention four from the Medici family.
Also amazing how the conclave was consistently 'led' to choose popes from the Medici family. 4 no less.
Hey, Bubba, that ol’ camo shirt looks good on ya...it hides yer beer belly.
Yes. I’d like to know if you believe if you don’t confess your sins to a priest does that disqualify you from Heaven?
Does it nullify believing Christ died on the cross for your sins?
I have to ask you....
Have you ever met Elsie before?
Or is this your first encounter with him?
Elsie, I agree that Jesus commands us to judge with righteous judgement. But we cannot take God’s place in judgement. We can say things like “rape is wrong” or “blasphemy is a sin against God,” but we cannot judge whether a person will or will not be saved. Full right to pass that judgement belongs to the Son.
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