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Catholicism and the cisChristian
The Catholic Church has a love-hate relationship with the Bible. One of their official doctrines is that it is, indeed, the word of God,...
Bible Brian
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Which came first, scripture or the Church?
One of many things separating Catholicism from Christianity is the Sufficiency of Scripture (a.k.a. Sola Scriptura). This concept is...
Bible Brian
5 min read


To be deep in history is to cease to be Catholic
In the 19th century, Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote that " To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant ". To this day, Catholics...
Bible Brian
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Judaism > Catholicism
The Catholic Church has a nasty habit of both overestimating and overstating its own importance. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than...
Bible Brian
5 min read


3 inconvenient Bible verses for Catholic apologists
In an attempt to defend their Church against the scriptures, the Catholic Church claims theirs is the one and only body with the...
Bible Brian
3 min read


Non-Catholics believe God dropped a Bible?
In a debate I once had with a Catholic, I received this meme. "Non-Catholics believe that after the last Apostle died, God dropped the...
Bible Brian
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Jewish authority > Catholic authority, change my mind
The Catholic apologetics arsenal contains a very small selection of common arguments. Chief among these clichés is the claim that the...
Bible Brian
3 min read


Drawing an analogy between Catholics and Democrats
There is a joke that the only amendment that matters to a Democrat is the fifth. For my non-American audience, the fifth amendment of the...
Bible Brian
4 min read


Evidence from scripture that it was recognised early
In an attempt to defend their Church against the scriptures, the Catholic Church claims theirs is the one and only organisation with the...
Bible Brian
4 min read


What did the Church rely on before?
One of the primary arguments Catholics use is to claim the Catholic Church canonised the Bible, which, for some reason, they think gives...
Bible Brian
3 min read


Judaism is more authoritative than Catholicism
A default response to virtually any Christian argument against Catholicism is that the Bible itself owes its origins to the Catholic...
Bible Brian
4 min read


Paul disagrees with the Catholic claim to have produced the Bible
It is frustratingly common for Catholics to claim that the Catholic Church must have authority because it is the Church that produced the...
Bible Brian
2 min read


Mr. Bean vs. the Catholic Claim to Fame
Catholics often argue that without their Church, no one would know which books belong in the Bible. This is rather silly, considering the...
Bible Brian
3 min read


The Catholic claim to fame
One of the greatest difficulties in debating Roman Catholics is the struggle of making them focus on the content of Scripture. Likely due...
Bible Brian
12 min read


Catholic apologetics and the inspiration dilemma
Catholicism, being an unBiblical faith, must necessarily undermine the authority and sufficiency of scripture. Many Catholics claim that...
Bible Brian
3 min read
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