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 ...
Then you qualify as a beginning PROTESTant.
No coincidence.
We girls get paid more from the Anti-Catholic Society of the NetherWorld if we manage to capture the prize.
It indicates a dogged determination to keep our efforts of refuting spurious doctrine as long as needed.
I also have 664 and 665.
No need to comment if you do not want to.
Modern version of killing the messanger.
Does it REALLY matter what METHOD used to display the information?
It is no different than saying a poster needs to sharpen his(her) crayon: a seemingly easy way to get away from actually answering a difficult subject.
This is why I ignore the vast majority of the things you post.
Why are you making this thread about me?
Of COURSE!
I read all your stuff!
For later. This (the link you provided) my prove to be an interesting diversion if I have some idle time on my hands. Which I don’t usually anymore, life is so busy. But still, some source material in there it seems may be worthy of consideration if at least to be prepared should they come up in related conversation. IMO
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
LOLOL!
cut and paste Catholic my foot.
All Elise does is cut and paste, I recognize and accept that and have no problem with that.
But you truly need help if you think what I do is cut and paste.
First, I research the topic, then I comment on the topic, then I put the actual text that support my assertion IN QUOTES and finally I include a hyperlink to the source material of the quote so that anyone can read the actual source material and I do it EVERY TIME.
You wouldn’t recognize well reasoned and supported assertions if you tripped over one.
There are many protestants who make well reasoned arguments and provide hyperlinks to their source material, which I especially appreciate because I know the time and effort they expend to do that.
However, I will say again - it is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks they will have any impact at all on any faithful Catholic.
I will go further and say, you have no idea how much you embarrass yourself when you talk about the Catholic faith. You are without a doubt the most clueless, poorly catechized Catholic I have ever read in a post - bar none.
You should be ashamed to even open your mouth because of teh ignorance you demonstrate every time.
AMDG
cut and paste Catholic my foot.
All Elise does is cut and paste, I recognize and accept that and have no problem with that.
But you truly need help if you think what I do is cut and paste.
First, I research the topic, then I comment on the topic, then I put the actual text that support my assertion IN QUOTES and finally I include a hyperlink to the source material of the quote so that anyone can read the actual source material and I do it EVERY TIME.
You wouldn’t recognize well reasoned and supported assertions if you tripped over one.
There are many protestants who make well reasoned arguments and provide hyperlinks to their source material, which I especially appreciate because I know the time and effort they expend to do that.
However, I will say again - it is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks they will have any impact at all on any faithful Catholic.
I will go further and say, you have no idea how much you embarrass yourself when you talk about the Catholic faith.
RM, you are right I removed all the references to metmom’s ignorance.
AMDG
cut and paste Catholic my foot.
All Elise does is cut and paste, I recognize and accept that and have no problem with that.
But you truly need help if you think what I do is cut and paste.
First, I research the topic, then I comment on the topic, then I put the actual text that support my assertion IN QUOTES and finally I include a hyperlink to the source material of the quote so that anyone can read the actual source material and I do it EVERY TIME.
You wouldn’t recognize well reasoned and supported assertions if you tripped over one.
There are many protestants who make well reasoned arguments and provide hyperlinks to their source material, which I especially appreciate because I know the time and effort they expend to do that.
However, I will say again - it is funny that a cut and paste protestant thinks they will have any impact at all on any faithful Catholic.
I will go further and say, you have no idea how much you embarrass yourself when you talk about the Catholic faith. You are without a doubt the most clueless, poorly catechized Catholic I have ever read in a post - bar none.
You should be ashamed to even open your mouth because of the ignorance you demonstrate every time.
AMDG
Then I must cut some mighty good stuff; if the RM yanks it!
At least I don’t stutter...
Note that my complaint was not with you or you posting style just a criticism of metmom’s accusation that I cut and paste.
AMDG
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
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