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Who Authenticates the Canon?

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 TheSire

This article grew out of an extended dialogue I had with a Catholic interlocutor about the canon—how it’s recognized, what authority it presupposes, and why the question matters in the first place. I’m sharing the conversation here not to recycle … Continue reading Who Authenticates the Canon?

Keith Thompson, Papacy, Roman Catholicism, RomeLeave a comment

Absence of Papal Views Among the Earliest Christians

May 3, 2023 TheSire

Absence of Papal Views Among the Earliest Christians By Keith Thompson Introduction In the fourth session of the 1870 first Vatican Council, Rome made the false assertion that belief in papal primacy has always been understood by the church as … Continue reading Absence of Papal Views Among the Earliest Christians

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Random Catholic links

February 3, 2022 TheSire

These are just some classic links from Triablogue on Catholicism that if you have free time, are worth your attention: Newman, “The Roman Catholic Hermeneutic”, and Rome’s Foundational Assumption On the possibility that Pseudonymous and Pseudipigraphical works made it into … Continue reading Random Catholic links

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Defending the Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, The Papacy & More (w/ Dr. Tony Costa)

April 21, 2021 TheSire

Click here to watch on youtube Continue reading Defending the Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, The Papacy & More (w/ Dr. Tony Costa)

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The One True Canon

February 24, 2021March 2, 2021 TheSire

A Catholic responded to my claim that the catholic canon wasn’t settled until the Council of Trent. Here was his response: This is false. It was not until the Synod of Rome under Pope Damasus in A.D. 382, followed by … Continue reading The One True Canon

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Papal Forgeries: A Road to Schism

February 23, 2021 TheSire

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Church History, Inerrancy, Roman Catholicism, Rome

Does Roman Catholicism teach Inerrancy?

December 29, 2020March 8, 2023 TheSire

Recently I had a conversation with a Roman Catholic about whether a Catholic can reject the inerrancy of the Bible. He argues that a Catholic must affirm the inerrancy of scripture in totality and I argue the Second Vatican Council … Continue reading Does Roman Catholicism teach Inerrancy?

Orthodox, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura

A Defense of the Five Solas: A Conversation with Dr. Tony Costa

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 TheSire

In a recent interview took place of Dr. Costa on Sola Scriptura on Eli’s show: He also has interacted with Catholic apologists elsewhere: “Mary: Sinless Queen of Heaven or Sinner Saved by Grace?” Robert Sungenis vs. Tony Costa Continue reading A Defense of the Five Solas: A Conversation with Dr. Tony Costa

justification, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Sola Fide

When was Abraham Justified?

April 18, 2020 TheSire

There is an argument that Catholics use in regard to Abraham to show that he was justified multiple times in his life. Was it in Gen. 12? Was it in Gen. 15? Was it in Gen. 22? Dr. James White … Continue reading When was Abraham Justified?

Jason Engwer, Roman Catholicism, Rome, Sola Scriptura

Sola Ecclesia

April 15, 2020 TheSire

[responsivevoice_button] Jason Engwer had some helpful thoughts at T-blog that were left in the comments of an article: Catholics have their own equivalents of sola scriptura, so one way of evaluating their objections to sola scriptura is to consider what … Continue reading Sola Ecclesia

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