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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: Iscool

You said GERMAN, there is a huge difference between German and Germanic. I pray for you.


661 posted on 03/24/2014 1:53:38 AM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: boatbums; metmom; Iscool
How on earth did you get the idea that everyone is obligated to answer every one of your little riddles and imagined "gotcha" questions???

From metmom herself. I am merely following her example. You just ignore them when they are answered anyway, why SHOULD anyone bother?

Actually that would be protestants that do that, metmom and izzy, the most notable examples on this thread.

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.

Like I said following the example of metmom, So would that make her the petty 10 year old. And for the record Catholics do not blindly agree, everyone of us here has investigated the Catholic Church to some degree or another. On the other hand it is the prots that blindly spew any negative thing they can find about the Catholic Church regardless of the facts.

662 posted on 03/24/2014 2:02:07 AM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: boatbums; Iscool
Sounds like YOU need to learn some history. Iscool didn't say it was GERMAN, he quoted Wikipedia which stated:

Izzy's post 628: Really??? Who wrote the German languagebible around 300 AD translated right from the original Greek??? Here's a hint...It wasn't a Catholic...

If he meant Germanic he should have said it. words mean things. Talk about blindly following.

663 posted on 03/24/2014 2:09:37 AM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: verga
Oh by the way Google is your friend AFSD. Still waiting on an answer for that.

I want a WHITE rabbit for Easter.

664 posted on 03/24/2014 3:36:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: LurkingSince'98
It is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks he is going to change the mind of a faithful Catholic.

At least I do not get ACCUSED of 'my opinion'.

665 posted on 03/24/2014 3:38:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: LurkingSince'98
It is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks he is going to change the mind of a faithful Catholic.

I would rather be known as a faithful Christian than one who appears to be a slave to merely ONE 'authorized' teaching.

666 posted on 03/24/2014 3:39:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

Pleased to be part of the group; since it appears that many have no genteel manners they use for the fairer sex (gender) anyway.


667 posted on 03/24/2014 3:41:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Curious, you have post 666, must be just a coincidence, or not...


668 posted on 03/24/2014 3:41:26 AM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: daniel1212
...could not honestly be saying we did not have a Christian foundation as a country...

True; but those that WANT to try to deny our foundation just LOVE to trot it out from time to time as if it PROVES the point they are trying to make.

Thank GOD the Mayflower Compact is there to refute their nefarious desires.

669 posted on 03/24/2014 3:43:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: verga
So no truth about God has EVER come from Protestantism.



670 posted on 03/24/2014 3:45:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: verga

Are you two TRYING to make this about me?


671 posted on 03/24/2014 3:45:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: verga
To: metmom
Making it personal is the knee jerk, default answer when you’ve made a point that can’t be refuted. I chalk it up as a win.

Thank you for the sage advice, since you have not been able to tell me the meaning of AFSD, I will chalk that up as a humongous win.

567 posted on Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:47:41 PM by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)

672 posted on 03/24/2014 3:52:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
It appears that the priests don't agree with Catholic policy either when they don't adhere to it themselves.

One must toss harder, if they want SOME stuff to ADHERE to the wall.

673 posted on 03/24/2014 3:54:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: verga
If you are Christian there are 3 choices: Catholic Rite, Orthodox rite, or prot. Learn some facts.

If you are Catholic, it appears that one of the things you learn is how to frame the argument.

And how to try to limit the choices...

674 posted on 03/24/2014 3:55:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
What? would you rather I posted unsubstantitated assertions?

Like, "Mary is in Heaven. Fielding over 1,000 requests a SECOND to be forwarded to Jesus."?

675 posted on 03/24/2014 3:57:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: LurkingSince'98
OK. And you homeschool we’ll well English maybe your second language.

It helps but still needs work. It seems that there may be punctuation missing. Just a thought.

You can try again......

677 posted on 03/24/2014 4:05:20 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: boatbums
I do believe you are hoping to get this thread locked for “childish behavior”. It wouldn’t be the first time.

That is obvious.

678 posted on 03/24/2014 4:06:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: LurkingSince'98
and you really need help seriously.


(Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)




Isaiah 42:8
I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, .... That is my name, and I will not give my glory to anyone else; I will not share my praise with carved idols.

679 posted on 03/24/2014 4:07:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: verga
(Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)

HMMMmmm...

680 posted on 03/24/2014 4:08:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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