tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post5276546967077867804..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Review of "Is Rome the True Church?"Turretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-39364777772865004122010-04-01T13:09:04.515+01:002010-04-01T13:09:04.515+01:00I also mentioned that in my review ("One addi...I also mentioned that in my review ("One additional personal note exists with respect to this book. Apparently shortly after the publication of the work, Geisler's co-author, Joshua M. Betancourt, announced his conversion to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism. It is not clear what prompted Mr. Betancourt's move. Considering that the book is so wishy-washy on Rome's status as Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-77794795420882059852010-04-01T07:16:08.596+01:002010-04-01T07:16:08.596+01:00Is Rome the True Church? - a consideration of the ...<i>Is Rome the True Church? - a consideration of the Roman Catholic claim, by Norman Geisler and Joshua Bettancourt</i><br /><br /><b>John Bugay</b>: "<i>I'm not sure if you've heard this, but evidently, at some recent point, Joshua Bettancourt is said to have converted to Rome."</i><br /><br />??!!!!!<br /><br />Are you kidding me??!!Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-43848188884329624922010-03-25T12:33:22.675+00:002010-03-25T12:33:22.675+00:00http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25v...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html<br />Pope is implicated in yet another scandal--this time in Wisconsin. <br />GodithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-45972223193283407102010-03-23T21:13:27.183+00:002010-03-23T21:13:27.183+00:00Coming back, little by little, into the blog world...Coming back, little by little, into the blog world I abruptly left a couple two or three weeks ago and now reading this article, I have to say, thanks TF for taking the time to read the work and providing us a review! <br /><br />With the books on my plate that I am reading now and the ones after them, it might be awhile before I am able to have sufficient time to pick up this work and read it Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-79589325595248614162010-03-22T13:13:00.067+00:002010-03-22T13:13:00.067+00:00Off topic, but good article relating to some recen...Off topic, but good article relating to some recent posts (Hans Kung on celibacy and child sex abuse in the RCC):<br /><br />http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/ratzingers-responsibility<br /><br />"Honesty demands that we take the correlation between abuse and celibacy seriously. The American psychotherapist Richard Sipe has clearly demonstrated, on the basis of a 25 year study... thatlouishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447894010657835114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-56317781255156696882010-03-22T13:12:49.490+00:002010-03-22T13:12:49.490+00:00Wes White: What do you think is the best critique ...Wes White: <i>What do you think is the best critique of Rome's claims?</i><br /><br />I would second the list that Turretinfan provided. I have found James White's works "The God Who Justifies and "The Roman Catholic Controversy" very helpful and thorough, as well as Eric Svendsen's "Evangelical Answers" and "Who Is My Mother," which provides an John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-62903892286123541872010-03-22T12:48:58.945+00:002010-03-22T12:48:58.945+00:00Hi TF -- I read this work some time ago and I had ...Hi TF -- I read this work some time ago and I had similar thoughts. I didn't catch the weak arguments and "errata" that you did, but I thought it had touched on a lot of the arguments for various Roman doctrines (especially papal arguments) but in a shallow kind of way. I also thought it could have been organized in a much better way, but given the spindly nature of Rome's John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-17221670099888157882010-03-22T11:42:09.425+00:002010-03-22T11:42:09.425+00:00Pastor White:
There are a number of great works:
...Pastor White:<br /><br />There are a number of great works:<br /><br />William Goode's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=hf0UAAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice</a><br /><br />William Whitaker's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=UmQ9AAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">A Disputation on Holy Scripture: against the papists ...</a><br /><br />John Calvin's Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-10739323474339260962010-03-22T07:49:33.708+00:002010-03-22T07:49:33.708+00:00"What do you think is the best critique of Ro..."What do you think is the best critique of Rome's claims?"<br /><br />TurretinFan's blog! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-18518066080062726242010-03-22T04:29:51.981+00:002010-03-22T04:29:51.981+00:00I can never get enough of
what the apostolic tradi...I can never get enough of<br />what the apostolic tradition<br />really means. Our first source<br />of answers is to ask God in <br />prayer.<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time<br />to be so informative.<br /><br />Pete.peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17801369779625472334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-89211408093939823832010-03-22T04:18:49.374+00:002010-03-22T04:18:49.374+00:00What do you think is the best critique of Rome'...What do you think is the best critique of Rome's claims?Wes Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08699630324814112298noreply@blogger.com