Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Dutch Church History: Why Start a New Church?

Good post by James Swan:

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Dutch Church History: Why Start a New Church?

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Merry Christmas! Celebrate the Incarnation! Matthew 2:1-12

Here's a really good post by Ken at Beggars All:

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Merry Christmas! Celebrate the Incarnation! Matthew 2:1-12

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: An Evangelical Introduction to Church History (Part 2)

Here's a great post by Ken over at Beggars All:

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: An Evangelical Introduction to Church History (Part 2)

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: “No coincidence that the first works of papal history are fictitious accounts written by the popes”

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: “No coincidence that the first works of papal history are fictitious accounts written by the popes”

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: An Evangelical Introduction to Church History

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: An Evangelical Introduction to Church History

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: A word about "intellectual converts"

Interesting post; both the post and the comments mention things that coincide with impressions I've gotten about the RCC and 'converts vs. cradle Catholics'.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: A word about "intellectual converts"

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Scott Windsor (3): Defense of the Papacy from the Early Church

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Scott Windsor (3): Defense of the Papacy from the Early Church

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Built on Sinking Sand: The “Scriptural” Foundation for the Papacy (2)

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Built on Sinking Sand: The “Scriptural” Foundation for the Papacy (2)

Here is Part One.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: “We are the Church” according to Calvin, and it is Rome that needs to repent and return to the truth

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: “We are the Church” according to Calvin, and it is Rome that needs to repent and return to the truth

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Tying up some loose ends from yesterday: "The one true church"

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Tying up some loose ends from yesterday: "The one true church"

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: The Reformation was not a "day", but an increase in understanding, caused by the opening of the Scriptures.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: The Reformation was not a "day", but an increase in understanding, caused by the opening of the Scriptures.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: To Be Deep in History - excellent article by Keith Mathison

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: To Be Deep in History - excellent article by Keith Mathison

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: In a discussion at Called to Communion

Here's a post by John Bugay that links to a discussion at 'Called to Communion' about some new scholarship on the structure of the early church at Rome.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: In a discussion at Called to Communion

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: William Webster Responds to Beckwith’s "Return to Rome"

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: William Webster Responds to Beckwith’s "Return to Rome"

Above is a link to a post on Beggars All that links to an article by William Webster who is responding to Francis Beckwith's book Return to Rome. That's a mouthful! I'm still working on reading Webster's article.

UPDATE:
If you look in the labels below this post, you will see 'Drowning in the Tiber'. Click on it to find links to listen to a sermon series by Tony Bartolucci that is also a response to Frank Beckwith's book. Tony also has some transcripts available of the series. Tony goes into some other reasons that Frank Beckwith mentions in his book that may have contributed to his reversion, such as some experiences he and his wife had that made them feel they were being 'led' back to Rome. Unfortunately, God is not the only one who can lead us, if we listen to voices other than His.

I also would like to add that there are many believers in the Catholic Church, but I believe they may soon find that they will be called to leave their church or be judged with her for her errors and her long history of violence. I also believe many others will be called to leave their denominations which are descending into error, or be judged as well.

An Interesting Quote

On James Swan's blog, from a link to an older post in his sidebar about 'Obscure Luther Quotes', I found this quote from Harold O.J. Brown in his book
'Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church':


On page 306, Brown states:

"It was not justification by faith alone that was the innovation and therefore the heresy; transubstantiation was the innovation that made the orthodoxy of the past into the heresy of the present. it made the promise of justification by faith alone appear fraudulent."