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Question: Why don’t Catholics make the necessary distinction between sanctification and justification? Answer: Part A: There is no clear-cut distinction between the two terms in the NT. Sometimes they are used synonymously. For example: Act 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to […]

Question: John, I have a question for you. What do you think of the following statement: “Whenever you sin, you’re saying to God, ‘I hate you .’”. (re-read once or twice) I recently attended a talk and the speaker kept emphasizing the above statement. This did not sit well with several people in the audience including myself.

Question: A gentlemen who is an elder (not minister) in a fundamentalist church, claims he has the ability to look into someone’s eyes and know if that person is “saved”. I thought only Jesus knows who is saved. What bible verse(s) would address that issue. He used this statement in the context that Catholics are

Question: How do you, as an apologist, handle objections by non-Christians who use parts of the OT dealing with God condoning massive slaughter, incest, the destruction of entire cities, or any of the other various moral objections we would have to some of the occurrences in the OT? Answer: God is the author of life. When

Question: Can you tell me why the Douay Rheims includes the Johanine Comma? I thought it was based on St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Do we even have St. Jerome’s original work? Did that insertion come AFTER St. Jerome’s original of which we no longer have? Answer: Copies of the Bible were rare before the printing press

Question: This is a question on the use of Matthew and Josephus to support only the Palestinian canon of the OT. If someone uses Mt. 23:35-“from Abel to Zecheriah” to support the idea that Jesus only recognized the Palestinian canon, what does this passage really mean in relationship to the OT canon. In other words,

Question: I’m arguing for an authoritative interpreter so that accurate understanding is guaranteed, not just probable. My opponent has asked if my choice of an authoritative interpreter is an fallible choice? What’s the answer to this? I mean, obviously it’s a fallible choice, but… it’s a confident choice in a way that “sola scriptura” can’t provide

Question: Why does James White maintain that 2 Timothy 3:16-17 sinks the Catholic position on Sola Scriptura? Answer: His allegation that “Catholics just can’t answer 2 Timothy 3:16,17” is a lie. I demolished him on this on a BBS several years ago. How soon he forgets. As usual Mr. White leaves out the context which tells you

Question: I had been going through an article on the “spurious” nature of the canon, written by William Webster, and in the process of researching what he says found your refutation (much better than anything I was coming up with). However, I have a question about one of his quotes– “Now, according to his judgment, in

I had the opportunity to read the transcript of your 1993 debate with Patrick Madrid on the issue of sola scriptura. As a Catholic Apologist, I believe that you failed to answer Mr. Madrid’s arguments on a number of issues, but I also think that Mr. Madrid did not have the time to address some of