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 ...
I guess most people would want to know your sample size and how diverse your range of question answerers were.
Some might even want to know the answers that WOULD have been given by those unasked.
From ENGLISH into... German?
From ENGLISH into... French?
From ENGLISH into... Italian?
From ENGLISH into... Chinese?
From ENGLISH into... Russian?
Yes for metmom it is, Once again I was quoting her. Don’t let the facts get in the way of you proving that you are not Christian.
And how much would that be?
Ah...
Your mind IS made up!
I like that in a person who knows it all.
O... K...
I won't.
I'll not let them impede others from making that judgement call either.
Which protestants were present for the formulating of the apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, or the Athanasian Creed?
Which protestants were present at the Councils of Rome, Hippo, or Carthage ordering the canon of the New Testament?
That is right they were still 1000 years or so in the future.
Still no reply from metmom. Wouldn't you define this a hypocritical, since you constantly demand answers from Catholics, and yet refuse to supply them yourself. Oh by the way Google is your friend AFSD. Still waiting on an answer for that.
Maybe you other ladies can whisper in metmom's ear and get her motivated.
Plus tons more...And many, many dialects of languages...The KJV is the bible of the Reformation...Worldwide Reformation...God wouldn’t just let it go to American and sit there...
....except
the vaunted Gutenberg was a (gasp) Catholic and...
there were at least eight printed Incanabula (Bibles printed prior to 1501 and for the folks for Rio Lindo it means prior to the Reformation).... printed in German
and the money quote for all you protestants: “As in all pre-Lutheran German Bibles, the translation was made from the (gasp) Latin Vulgate. THEY WERE CATHOLIC.
http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/stamp-ross-283
Stamp. Ross. 283
This large-format Bible, glossed with the margin notes of Niccolò da Lira, was printed in 1478-1479 in Cologne by Heinrich Quentell and Bartholomaeus of Unkel on behalf of Johann Helmann and Arnold Salmonster in Cologne and Anton Koberger in Nuremberg. Known as the ‘Cologne Bible,’ it was printed in two varieties of German: Low Saxon (niedersächsisch) and Low Rhenish (niederrheinische). As in all pre-Lutheran German Bibles, the translation was made from the Latin Vulgate.
For the Graeter Glory of God
Correcto all the way! Some just do want to accept the truth, in my opinion.
Yes, I am a faithful Catholic and God willing will die that way.
It is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks he is going to change the mind of a faithful Catholic.
Going to split for a family party.
Have a great week.
Regards,
AMDG
That’s - 5 for humility.
You forgot the negative sign.
Hey, Elsie.
Here's another one.
*I'm not going to read something that will prove me wrong, so I'll just slander it and call it a screed and dismiss it off hand.*
I wasn’t thinking. My motive can be found in post 2, and I should have used FReepmail.
You forgot the negative sign.
Seeing as it was you I was quoting, I guess you do know yourself best. Hoisted by your own petard... You do know what that phrase means don't you?
Imagine the market for that neck-tar!
I guess we can't call that the Reformation bible then, can we...
Defining something is not making it.
God gave plenty of evidence for that in Scripture and it's believed because it's in Scripture, not because the Catholic church coined a term for it and put a formal definition to it.
Which protestants were present for the formulating of the apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, or the Athanasian Creed?
Creeds. Big deal. They're just summaries of Scripture. They aren't Scripture.
Which protestants were present at the Councils of Rome, Hippo, or Carthage ordering the canon of the New Testament?
Committees are committees and are as useless then as they are now. They simply rubber stamped what was already recognized as Scripture.
Hey, Elsie. Seems someone thinks you’re one of the ladies.
LOLOL!!!!!
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