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Question: Do we really know what they (the Catholic church) believe in and why we can’t compromise the differences for the sake of unity? (Michael Horton assistant pastor at Santee United Reformed Church and professor at Westminster Seminary California on the White Horse Inn a few years ago, answers that question below: ) Answer: “In the first week of October 1997 a coalition of individual Roman Catholics and evangelical protestants issued a joint statement of their common understanding of the Christian Gospel titled The Gift of Salvation. It was an earnest attempt to state the message of salvation in language...

Justification by Faith Alone(The Forensic Nature of Justification) In the popular jargon of religion the word "forensic" is used infrequently. The term is not foreign to ordinary language, however, as it is used regularly in newspaper and other media reports, particularly with reference to criminal investigations and trials. The work of criminal pathologists and coroners often touch on what is called forensic medicine and/or forensic evidence. Here the term "forensic" refers to matters that concern the judicial system and judicial proceedings. A second manner in which the term "forensic" is used in ordinary language has to do with public speaking....