Dave Armstrong
April 22, 2014
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by Dave Armstrong | The film Noah has made quite a splash. I have not yet seen it, as of this writing. I'm particularly interested in judging how true to the Bible it is. Most Catholic reviewers have given mixed reviews in that regard and also in the artistic sense, with various degrees of approval or disapproval.
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Dave Armstrong
April 29, 2014
18,402 Views
by Dave Armstrong | Non-Catholic Christians and the secular world have used the Inquisitions, the Crusades, and the Galileo incident, as “clubs” to bash the Church for almost 500 years. I did so myself, in my Protestant apologist days. But such critics almost invariably distort the known facts in order to do so.
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Dave Armstrong
May 13, 2014
15,475 Views
by Dave Armstrong | Our Protestant friends in Christ often challenge us to find “proofs” of our doctrines in the Bible. When it comes to the doctrine of the Assumption, almost all of them think or say: “there is nothing whatever in the Bible about that!”
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Dave Armstrong
May 21, 2014
23,336 Views
by Dave Armstrong | Once upon a time, virtually no Christians denied that Mary the mother of Jesus was perpetually a virgin: including Protestants. Of the early leaders of that movement, virtually all fully accepted this doctrine: including Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Bullinger, and Cranmer.
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Dave Armstrong
May 28, 2014
11,824 Views
by Dave Armstrong | In Jesus' Hebrew culture (and Middle Eastern culture even today), cousins were called "brothers". In my previous article, I wrote abo...
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Dave Armstrong
June 7, 2014
6,470 Views
by Dave Armstrong | Mary's perpetual virginity is fitting and proper by the nature of the relationship of a holy God and man.
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Dave Armstrong
June 12, 2014
6,254 Views
by Dave Armstrong | A Catholic asks, “what does it mean to be full of grace?” For St. Paul, grace is the antithesis and overcomer of sin...
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Dave Armstrong
June 18, 2014
10,473 Views
by Dave Armstrong | When the Church has referred to Muslims worshiping the one God, it is meant in the sense of both Christians and Muslims being monotheists.
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Dave Armstrong
June 26, 2014
5,870 Views
by Dave Armstrong | The Catholic Church, in agreement with Lewis, defines doctrinal development as a growth of depth and clarity in the understanding of the truths of divine revelation.
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Dave Armstrong
November 18, 2014
22,620 Views
by Dave Armstrong | Having a child conceived by the Holy Spirit has no direct analogy, because it was a one-time extraordinary event, in order to bring about the incarnation.
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Dave Armstrong
December 17, 2014
8,276 Views
by Dave Armstrong | I emerged from Hezekiah's Tunnel in my swimsuit and rubber sandals (the water is almost three feet deep in some places), and met the rest of our party sitting by the side of the Pool.
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Dave Armstrong
May 6, 2014
10,667 Views
by Dave Armstrong | One of the most fascinating of Luther's beliefs has to do with the question of Mary's Immaculate Conception (her being preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception). Luther had a rather “high” Mariology in many respects.
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