Category Archives: Modernism

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St. Clement of Rome Believed Scripture Was Inspired by God

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My Icon of St. Clement of Rome purchased at Kiev Perchersk Lavra

But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you. 

– John 14:26

But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak; and the things that are to come, he shall shew you. 

– John 16:13

From these two statements we can see that our Lord is telling the disciples that the Holy Spirit will teach them the truth.  What exactly would the Holy Ghost give the Church?  St. Paul gives us a hint in his second epistle to Timothy.

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The Russian Option

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Pope Francis And Patriarch Kirill

As many of my readers know, I was in the Ukraine in August.  I’m involved a lot with the Eastern European community in my city.  Two Sundays ago I went to a going away party for the local Russian Orthodox priest.  He’s moving back home to be with his parents.  I’m not Orthodox but I’ve learned a lot from this man.

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Adnan Rashid, Matthew Vines, and the Crucifixion

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The Crucifixion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ

I didn’t want to do a review of the debate between Adnan Rashid and Samuel Green on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ but this general overview will cover a lot of material in that debate.  The crucifixion has always been a sticky point for Muslims.  The Quran denies it but only in one place.  There are multiple first century sources of the crucifixion of Jesus but Muslims go for the one mysterious statement in the Quran six centuries after the event.

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The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism is Fraudulent

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It’s been about a month since the shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue.  After that happened a friend of mine on social media wrote a post and said that the biggest antisemitism is saying that we shouldn’t preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jews.  She said it in a very respectful way but that didn’t matter.  Many Jews swarmed her page.  The word antisemitic was thrown around multiple times.  This one Jewess was viciously attacking me.  Her arguments were so ridiculous that I just started calling her an antisemite because I simply stopped caring at that point.  

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Judaism, Zionism, the Temple, and Apologetics

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-z4iEkSn0

I was recently watching a YouTube video.  It was an apologetics lecture given by a prominent Orthodox Jewish Rabbi.  In the question and answer period someone in the audience asked if they should accept support from Evangelicals who are hardcore Zionists.  A legitimate question for the Jewish community I suppose.  He said to accept their support but don’t go to events put on by CUFI and similar groups.  He said that the state of Israel is there because God wants it to be there.  I can only laugh at some statements.

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Mainline Protestantism – A Project Doomed to Fail

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I’ve been talking about Mohammed Hijab and Islam quite a bit lately so I thought I’d change it up and share some thoughts on some key issues.  On Saturday I was at a function in my city.  Most people at the function were from Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine or Russia.  It was quite an event.  I had a good long discussion with an Orthodox priest that I knew.  He knows that I’m Catholic and he told me that Catholics were hard to convert.  He mentioned that it was easier to convert Episcopalians or another mainline Protestants.  He mentioned that he’s only converted one Catholic in his whole life, and he’s not a young priest.

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Why Mohammed Hijab is Dangerous

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In my previous two posts on Mohammed Hijab, I marveled in his impressive speaking skill.  He’s one of the best speakers that I’ve ever seen.  If I were to look at all of the Christian and Muslim apologists on the planet and find the best speaker among all of them, I would give it to Mohammed Hijab.  This is what makes him dangerous.

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What Most People Don’t Know About the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

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Things have become worse in the situation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople.  In the interview above(which is short and I recommend everyone watch), the Orthodox bishop says that Russians who go on vacation in Turkey cannot receive communion in the churches there.  This is a pretty serious situation.