270 results for 'The Protestant's Dilemma'

Are Protestants Closer to the Truths of Catholicism Than They Think? (Post)

To outsiders, Catholicism is weird.Protestants, especially, often have a hard time comprehending the Catholic world of popes, Mary statues, prayer cards, vestments, smells, bells, and Jesus’ actual b ...

Why Did Martin Luther Take Books Out of the Bible?(Post)

The canon of the New Testament slowly took shape over the first 300 years of Christianity. Some books, like the four Gospels, were widely accepted early on, whereas others were doubted by many for a ...

How did Protestants and Catholics end up with two different Old Testaments?(Post)

One evening I had the sad duty of attending my neighbor’s funeral. My neighbors were not religious, but apparently a local “mega-church” offered to conduct the eulogy for them ...

Why Protestant Bibles Are Smaller (Post)

  If the Council of Trent didn’t add the deuterocanon to the Bible, as its deliberations show, why do Protestant bibles exclude these books? Before 1599, nearly all Protestant bibles incl ...

Confession 101: A Catholic vs Protestant Understanding of the Sacrament(Post)

Let's take a look at the differences between the Catholic and Protestant understanding of the Sacrament of Confession. If Protestantism is true, the power that Jesus gave men to forgive sins di ...

Purgatory in the Protestant Traditions (Post)

Purgatory is also found among many non-Catholic Christians. In fact, Christians who reject the doctrine of purgatory, in its consciously articulated form or at least the concepts that undergird it, a ...

Meeting the Protestant Challenge Head On(Post)

“You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition…thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on.” -Mark 7:9,13“Where’s that in the ...

How to Answer Protestant Misunderstandings on Baptism(Post)

The vast majority of Christians believe that baptism is a means of salvation—Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, and even some Calvinists. Only Baptists ...

Answering Protestant Comebacks: The Bread of Life Discourse(Post)

The Catholic Church teaches that when we partake of the Eucharist in Holy Communion, we are literally consuming the body and blood of Jesus Christ. A key passage from Scripture that Catholics, and ot ...

Sola Scriptura Turns Protestant Understandings of the Bible into a Novelty(Post)

Protestant View on Scripture Interpretation Protestants Say: Scripture is self-interpreting; therefore, the believer’s private interpretation is what the Holy Spirit intended. Catholic Respons ...

Why Do Our Protestant Friends Have Smaller Bibles?(Post)

We recently sat down with Catholic Answers Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin, to talk about why the Bible is a Catholic book. Q. Our Protestant friends often speak of “the word of God” as if it ...

Does The Bible Condemn Repetitious Prayer?(Post)

The rosary is a popular Catholic devotion that the Catechism endorses as a “form of piety” that expresses the “religious sense of the Christian people” (1674). But for many Protestants, the rosary, ...