"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us." - Charles SpurgeonI'll say it, outside of reading for class and RCIA I haven't read the bible (until tonight) for weeks. I am afraid of what I have become. I'm so worned out with everything in life, I'm too afraid to go forth anymore. I feel extremely guilty about life and I read this passage … [Read more...]
GRACE ALONE => THE ONLY WAY
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present … [Read more...]
"Once Saved, Always Saved" heresy refuted by Charles Finney
Right now I'm doing an essay on Charles Finney's Lectures on Revivals of Religion, it's mostly how Americans tend to anthropomorphize God into an image of themselves, etc. (You know those Canadian profs). Finney was a Baptist Preacher, Abolitionist, and the founder of Evangelicalism's greatest weapon: "The Altar Call" and anxious seat manuevers, yes this is the man who … [Read more...]
Who Obscured Scripture – Luther or the Medieval Church
Much like the assumption of Catholics that Protestants will scream when doused with Holy Water, there is another myth coming from the other side. I would argue that this myth has so pervaded Protestantism that their historians have spread it even unto the academic world. Today I encountered it.It is the great Protestant myth that the Catholic Church is somehow 'scared' of the … [Read more...]
Roman Fire Upon These Profs!!!@#$@%@#%!!!
WARNING: This is an inflamatory piece of Catholic Rhetoric that was written in anger to all the Protestant Rhetoric I've had to read at university. Do not expect objectivity. Probably only Philip Wilson will enjoy this post. It seems in life that one of two things is happening to me:1) in an andrew-centric cosmos all effort is being thrown against him and thus last year he was … [Read more...]