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Martin Luther was certainly right when he made the bold comment that the issue of the human free will is really the "hinge on which the whole turns".
Wether it be the Roman Catholic church or any other of the religions of man. It all comes down to the great issue, does God save or does God simply lay out a plan and leave it up to the creature to decide, wether it be by sacraments, confession, mass, free will, ect, ect.
Not only do Catholics hate Dr White but so do many people who would call themselves protestants. Dr White is proudly a christian from the Calvinist side, and by the grace of God so am I. That is the issue that will put a lot of people off this book.
God Bless
He didn't.
He does present the Roman arguments, sometimes citing official documents of the Church, but when it comes to answering the really tough questions (sola scriptura, sola fide, the Real Presence), he doesn't seem to address Rome so much.
He quotes from Catholic authors (Ludwig Ott and others), and attacks their arguments, but that won't suffice. Perhaps he does too much attacking and not enough defending of his own doctrines... perhaps.
For example... he cites the Roman claim that divisions in the Protestant camp prove that they cannot be the true, united Church, but then attacks that claim by saying that Rome is just as divided... interesting hypothesis, but he provides no evidence to prove it.
He calls Catholics "circular" in their arguments of Scripture pointing to an infallible Church, since it is only the Church that can interpret the Scripture - but he fails to address the circular reasoning in the Protestant claim that the Scripture is infallible because the Scripture says so.
He addresses the issue of oral tradition presented in Jesus' teaching on the "Seat of Moses" (Mt. 23:1-3), and refutes the claim by pointing out that Jesus attacks the Pharisees who sit in Moses' Seat. No mention of where this teaching of a Seat of Moses came from (there's no record of it in the Bible), and no treatment of Jesus' words that "you must obey them," precisely because they DO sit on Moses' Seat.
These are just a few of the examples from this book that really left me still asking questions...
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