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Is Faith Sufficient for Conversion?
Are individuals converted and justified solely through the disposition of faith, i.e. justified by and through faith alone? As mentioned previously, God justifies the ungodly by making an unjust soul just. But is the disposition of faith sufficient for this act of God to be efficacious to the particular person? Does an unjustified soul need…
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Justification by Works?
All Christians are in complete agreement in confessing that a person is justified by faith. Why then are Catholics and Protestants in such stark disagreement about confessing whether or not a person is justified by works, at least by faith and works? Perhaps we are asking the wrong question, or, perhaps the question needs to…
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Scandal in the Catholic Church
Scandals within the Catholic Church have been all over the media and people everywhere are repulsed. I cannot even begin to imagine what goes through the mind of a non-Catholic looking on from the outside. So, what gives? Why is this happening and, perhaps more importantly, why are Catholics, clergy and laity alike, hush-hush and…
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Where Did the Bible Come from?
Why did not Jesus Christ write a single jot of his teachings down on parchment? How come He did not command His Apostles to write anything down? And, yet, we have this collection of books called the Holy Bible that most every Christian reveres as the written Word of God. Many of those Christians claim…
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The Greatest Commandment
Why is it so incredibly hard to love other people at times, especially those whom we find hardest to love? Is it not enough to love God alone? Certainly, it is God who alone will judge where our eternity will be spent. Does it not seem logical to direct most, if not all, of our…