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In the Reformation, the Reformers developed a systematic formulation that delineated the distinction of the biblical Christian faith from th...

The primary issue of controversy between the Reformers of the Sixteenth Century and the Roman Catholic Church was the question of justificat...

"The Papists will well-enough confess that we be justified by faith, howbeit they add that it is but partly . But that gloss marreth al...

"Justification is a legal act of God. It is strictly a legal act of God. By the act of justification, God changes the sinner's sta...

One thing cults have in common is that they have some leader, whether alive or dead, whom they declare to be some paragon of truth. We have...

I think that it is quite apropos that my four-hundredth post falls on the last day of the year! One of the last actions by Jesus recorded ...

In the earliest days of the Reformation, Martin Luther based his stand on justification by faith alone. And with good reason, as history ...

One of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church is the the Bible is not sufficient for the conversion and sanctification of the Christian. Ra...

In the New American Bible - Revised Edition (hereafter, "NABRE"), the primary translation used among English-speaking American Cat...

We have all read of Paul's imprisonments. The first, house arrest in Rome for two years, is described at the end of Acts. The second end...

Back in 1987, then-Pope John-Paul II visited the United States, including a stop in neighboring South Carolina. At the time, a co-worker,...

The Prophet Jeremiah gave his prophecies in the time immediately before and immediately after the sacking of Jerusalem by the Babylonians...

At a convention sponsored by the Kenneth Copeland Ministries, delegates were treated to a video from Pope Francis, in which he expressed...

Reposted from the Contra Mundum blog , with permission. As I have mentioned elsewhere, here for example, I do not take a futurist approac...

During the Reformation, one of the primary ssues was that of authority. And it is, indeed, the central issue that divides biblical Protest...

"If anyone saith that the sacrifice of the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, or that it is a bare commemoration of t...

"...[T]he [Catholic] Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, does not derive her certainty ab...

" Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out in...

While it wasn't their only motivation to prayer, both Martin Luther and John Knox gave much attention to the commandments to pray. ...

I have written before about the abandonment of the opposition to Rome by modern Protestantism. Today, I want to write about the abandonme...