I've been conversing with a Roman Catholic concerning SS. He asserts SS is a made-up concept and the OT is full of 'tradition'. I see the bottom line as being:
Israel did not have a 'inerrant' leader/council (as in Rome claims), so the comparison is invalid. i.e. no where are we pointed to OT...
For reasons of historical research, I would like to read the books exclusively in the Roman Catholic Canon but I don't know which Edition is best. Ideally I would like to find a source that is free online or downloadable in a Mobi or EPUB format.
It seems to me that the biblical evidence against the institution of any "priesthood" is enormous. The very idea harkens back to the Old Covenant, in which time the people of God needed mediators to communicate with Him. We know from the book of Hebrews, however, that the Old Covenant has found...
Today, some Roman Catholics made use of the following passage, Eze. 33:12-16,
to propagate their doctrine that God demands righteous works for us to be declared just before Him. I was not familiar with the passage, so I was not sure how to properly interpret it so that it is in-line with the...
In Louis Berkhof's Systematic Theology, when treating the doctrine of the Church's catholicity, states the following:
Has anyone taken Berkhof's questions to task, since his writing them?
Hello, my sister is witnessing to one of our cousins who is a Roman Catholic, and wants to know the best way to approach some of her (cousin) beliefs regarding Infant Baptism and the receiving of the Holy Spirit. Here is the question.
The question that has come up that my sister needs help is...