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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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
The history of the language begins with the High German consonant shift during the migration period, separating Old High German dialects from Old Saxon. The earliest evidence of Old High German is from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the 6th century AD; the earliest glosses (Abrogans) date to the 8th; and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th; century. Old Saxon at this time belongs to the North Sea Germanic cultural sphere, and Low Saxon was to fall under German rather than Anglo-Frisian influence during the Holy Roman Empire.
So you are posing as a Christian. That is what I have suspected all along. Feel free to have the last word.
I’m not owning it.
Read it and weep.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3135058/replies?c=567
Sure she was whether she know it or not. You do understand the concept of unintended consequences don’t you. Wait do you know what unintended consequences even are. I mean you still don’t seem to know what AFSD is yet.
Yeah you are. Whether you have the integrity to are not is a completely different story. But it is still yours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3135058/replies?c=538
Read it and weep.
Back attcha
You are so far around the bend that you don’t understand English.
It was a simile meaning he makes false unsubstantiated assertions about something he know nothing about and he does it often like you quote Scripture often.
And you homeschool we’ll English maybe your second language.
Good Night.
I specifically stated incunabula printed Bibles prior to 1500.
All of the extant PRINTED German bibles prior to 1500 were Catholic translations from Douay Rheims.
One thing that sets some of you people apart from Christians is that you often have trouble telling the truth...Here is what you really said...
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.
Well, no they weren't...
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
If you're going to criticize someone's English, perhaps it would behoove you to make sure YOURS is correct.
The earliest evidence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occurs in a single instance in the 2nd century BC on the Negau helmet.[14] From roughly the 2nd century AD, certain speakers of early Germanic varieties developed the Elder Futhark, an early form of the Runic alphabet. Early runic inscriptions also are largely limited to personal names and difficult to interpret. The Gothic language was written in the Gothic alphabet developed by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible in the 4th century.
Thanks for the ping, dear metmom! And thanks for the information, dear Elsie!
“Well, no they weren’t...”
The difference between your assertion and mine is that mine was a DIRECT QUOTE from The Bodelain Library of Oxford University on incunabula printed Bibles prior to 1501.
The third sentence below reads: As in all pre-Lutheran German Bibles, the translation was made from the Latin Vulgate.
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. The two volumes are richly illustrated with 113 and 123 woodcuts respectively, made by the so-called Master of Cologne. The woodcuts, illustrating the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation, introduce key figures such as King David and the Evangelists, but most notable is the illustration of the Creation scene. The decoration in both volumes was hand-colored in a style that influenced all subsequent production, not only in Germany but across Europe.
Now just who should we believe Iscool or Oxford University?
For The Greater Glory Of God
well was corrected by my iPhone to we’ll
and you really need help seriously.
AMDG
Good one. It fits.
Gothic is an extinct Germanic language, the earliest known extensive example being The Codex Argenteus, the “Silver Book”, a 6th-century manuscript containing Bishop Ulfilas’s 4th century translation of the Bible from Greek into Gothic.
How on earth did you get the idea that everyone is obligated to answer every one of your little riddles and imagined "gotcha" questions??? You just ignore them when they are answered anyway, why SHOULD anyone bother?
I can't believe that you are so petty as to DEMAND Metmom finished your acronym that she made to someone ELSE and insist she was "ignorant" when she didn't jump to your command. What, are you ten years old??? It sure seems like on topics some Roman Catholics here blindly agree on, fools seldom DO differ.
And you complain that Elsie doesn't add anything to the dialog???!!! Dude, get a life.
I posted evidence...Universities are not infallible...
I do believe you are hoping to get this thread locked for “childish behavior”. It wouldn’t be the first time.
Which is basically a useless assertion, as it lumps all Prots together, while it is only your experience with a very limited sample size and variety. What actual surveys from many different researchers consistently shows, is that Catholics broke with their Church's teachings more than most other groups, and were much less conservative and unified overall in views Evangelicals. See here .
As a Catholic if I disagree on even one point I get myself before the blessed Sacrament to conform myself to the Church.
Then you are very rare, yet must consider those whom Rome treats as members in life and in death as your brethren, even though the majority are liberal, and at least 30% of the priests.
Meanwhile, unity itself is not the goal, as so-called "Jehovah's Witnesses out do RCs by a long shot in doctrinal unity, and mostly dead churches have less division, while the most divisive RCs are the ones who are most committed.
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