CATHOLIC ARTICLE

Question: The idea of the loss of salvation is one that I do not fully understand . Can you explain it to me? Answer: I have run into many Protestants who — like you — have problems with this. I have never fully understood the Protestant belief on this. I think it has to do with […]

Question: Does the Catholic Church not believe in original sin theology? In Adam’s fall, we all sinned. Or do you believe it, but not to the point that Calvin takes it? Answer: We do believe in Original sin, but not the way Calvin does. Calvin would have you believe that everything the natural man does is

Question: Was Abraham justified before men or God? Answer: Jam 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? Jam 2:22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, Jam 2:23 and the scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham

Question: I have an Evangelical friend who interprets Romans 10: 9-17 as meaning that unless one believes in Christ as saviour one cannot be saved; and that therefore the Church’s teaching on Baptism by desire and the idea that pagans who are invincibly ignorant of the truth of the Faith and lead upright laws according

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,