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The Right Altar
“We have an altar, whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.”
Levi S.
Ecclesia Catholica successionem apostolicam conservat
Nine months ago, one of my dear Protestant friends spoke to me in the parking lot of Walmart, on a brutally cold afternoon after having returned from morning Mass and First Communion Catechism class for one of my children, and asserted that he had performed the research, acquired translations and
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Certainty
CERTAINTY, noun 1. A fixed or real state; truth; fact. 2. Full assurance of mind; exemption from doubt. - Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary The word certainty is absolute when used in relation to truth itself. Things that are true are certain in the objective sense. Individuals who are
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The Living Bread
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Against Mark Bullen's article "On The Proper Usage Of Early Church Writings"
In Mark Bullen's article, "On the proper usage of Early Church writings", he forms a theological framework that is methodological circularity. He criticizes the Mennonites for selectively appealing to the Church Fathers wherever the Fathers appear to support their interpretation of Scripture, yet he openly employs
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What is heresy?
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid. Knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgement. Titus 3:10-11 This term "heretic" and "heresy" is one widely used in today'
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We prove without Scriptures that they have nothing to do with the Scriptures
Since this is the case, in order that the truth may be adjudged to belong to us, "as many as walk according to the rule," which the church has handed down from the apostles, the apostles from Christ, and Christ from God, the reason of our position is
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From Rome comes the very authority of the Apostles
Come now, you who would indulge a better curiosity, if you would apply it to the business of your salvation, run over the apostolic churches, in which the very thrones of the apostles are still pre-eminent in their places, in which their own authentic writings are read, uttering the voice
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Mark Bullen's "Foundation Stones" with his Roman Catholic Errors
Mark Bullen, self-appointed Pastor and "Bishop" of Living Faith Christian Fellowship recently spent time rewriting his "Doctrinal Study Guide" for "Apostolic Faith & Biblical Christian Living", now calling it "Foundation Stones for Apostolic Faith & Biblical Christian Living". Besides expanding it, making
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Annotations from Acts XV in the original Douay Rheims Bible (1582 & 1610)
ANNOTATIONS. Chap. XV. 1. Appointed.) The way to end dissension in religion, is to commit it to a Council. We learn by this example, what is to be done when any controversy ariseth in religion between the teachers or other Christian people. We see it is not enough to contend
Building on Bedrock - The Second Passover - Response to Chapter 7
Christ, the New Moses, and the Second Passover Mark’s account of the “Second Passover” in Christ’s ministry is rich with details from the Gospels, weaving together Christ’s healing of the paralytic at Bethesda, the calling of the Twelve, the sending of the Seventy, and the moral teaching
Building on Bedrock - The First Passover of Christ’s Ministry - Response to Chapter 6
The First Passover of Christ’s Ministry With the Passover in Jerusalem, the public ministry of Jesus truly bursts onto the world stage. The Lord’s zeal for the Temple, His miracles, His profound conversations with Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman, and His growing fame throughout Galilee - these are