Kevin Noles

Debate: Is Purgatory Scriptural? Part 2 Rebuttals

This is Part 2 of a debate between Jim Drickamer and myself on the topic of purgatory.

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Debate: Is Purgatory Scriptural? Part 1 Opening Statements

This is a debate between Jim Drickamer and myself on the topic of purgatory.

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Is the Bible the Only Word of God?

First off, nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Bible is the sole, God-inspired source we have. This is a traditional construct of man which contradicts the Bible. The burden of proof lays with John on this. He must demonstrate that the Bible is the only source of the Word of God.

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Call No Man Your Father on Earth

Don’t you know that the Bible tells us not to call any man Father? Why are Catholics so persistent in their unbiblical practices of calling Priests Father? It has been awhile since I have heard these statements, but I am sure I will hear them again at some point in my lifetime. Occasionally I have heard “Why do Catholics call their Priests Father?”

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The Church and Authority: Part 4 Petrine Primacy (The Pope)

There may be no bigger contention between Catholics and Protestants, besides maybe salvation, than the doctrine of the Pope. There are many different arguments against the Pope from Protestants such as “Petros only means pebble” or “Peter was never in Rome.” Unfortunately my desire to keep each article short (about 1,000 words) does not give me a lot of room to cover each issue,

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The Church and Authority: Part 3 Apostolic Succession in the Church

Whenever I talk about Apostolic Authority the typical response is something along the lines of “I believe in God’s authority not an authority coming from a man.” The nature of the Church’s authority is indeed God but a better way to ask this question may be to ask how the authority was given.

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Authority: Part 2 Doctrine and the Church

Protestants typically believe that “essential doctrines” are agreed upon by every Christian church. If divisions do appear between Christians, such as on the rapture, then dividing the body of Christ into a new denomination is better than having a public dispute.

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The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church

In the comments section of my article Are Good Works Automatic?, Another person and I had a good spirited debate on works and justification. He believes his interpretation is authoritative and rejects the Catholic interpretation, which the Bible agrees with. .

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Baptism: Part 3 Infant Baptism

An early practice of Baptism was infant baptism. Some people find that the argument for infant Baptism is an argument from silence. The same can be said about believers Baptism. There is no passage of Scripture that tells us that infants cannot be baptized. This argument comes from Nick Kuhns, who adheres to the Methodist theology ...

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Baptism: Part 2 Saved in Baptism

The Catholic asks the Protestant, “Does Baptism save us?” The Protestant replies, “No.” The Catholic then turns to the only authority that the Protestant yields to, which is Holy Scripture, and that says yes (1 Peter 3:21). Instead of yielding to Holy Scripture as they claim, they instead are yielding to man-made traditions, those that are actually condemned by Jesus, instead of the Word of God

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Baptism: Part 1 Born Again the Biblical Way

There is a lot of ground to cover about Baptism. Instead of one extremely long article, I have broken this topic down into three articles in order to focus on certain areas.

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A Coherency of Merit and Salvation

Bill Dunn wrote an article the other day called, ‘How Come You Catholics Try To Earn Your Way Into Heaven?' (go read it!). I rather enjoyed it but kept feeling like there was something that could be expanded on.

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Are Good Works Automatic?

While Catholics and some non-Christians acknowledge that faith and works are necessary for salvation, some non-Catholics then believe that good works are automatic. In other words, someone with faith will in turn do good works.

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