Canons, Translations, Interpretations

• Is the Bible Inspired?
• Proving Inspiration
• What's Your Authority For That?
• Defending the Deuterocanonicals
• The Old Testament Canon
• Divino Afflante Spiritu (Papal doc.)
• The Court of God
• The God of Israel
• The Religion of Israel
• The Jesus Seminar
• How to Choose a Bible Version
• Bad Translations in the King James Version
• The King James Version (review & critique)
• Douay Bible
• Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament
• Canon of the Old Testament
• Canon of the New Testament
• Codex Alexandrinus
• "Should the Bible be taken literally or symbolically?"
• "Is it true that the Council of Trent added the seven deuterocanonical books?"
• "How can I defend the book of Judith against Fundamentalist attacks which charge it with historical accuracies?"
• "How was the Bible broken up into verses?"
• "Is the Collegeville Bible Commentary a good Scripture commentary?"
• "How do you explain Jesus' statement that David 'entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest' when in fact Ahimelech occupied that office at that time?"
• "I read a book by a Scripture scholar who said the Bible is inerrant only in religious matters that pertain to our salvation. He quoted Vatican II as the source of this 'limited inerrancy' doctrine."
• "Jeremiah says that Judah would be taken into captivity for 70 years. Didn't the captivity last only 47 years?"
• "The Bible says that the sun was made to stand still, but ancient Chinese astronomical records nowhere mention the sun doing this. Isn't this evidence that the biblical accounts are incorrect?"
• "In the Bible, one passage says that Solomon had 4,000 horse stalls and another passage says that he had 40,000. What should I make of this?"
• "Does the ark of the covenant still exist somewhere?"
• "What exactly is an ark, anyway?"
• "I heard that someone discovered a 'secret Gospel of Mark'; is there any truth to this?
• The Credibility of the Gospels
• The History of the Canon of Sacred Scripture

The Bible, Sola Scriptura & Sacred Tradition

• A Challenge to James White on the Early Fathers - From an Email exchange with Mark Bonocore of Catholic Apologetics International, demonstrates again why Sola Scriptura is illogical, unworkable, and incompatible with the beliefs of the early Fathers, this is a challenge to James White and Jason Engwer (a White protege) to produce a single Father who was an "orthodox Christian" according to "Reformed Baptist" or "Evangelical Protestant" standards
• A Summary of the Challenge to James White - More from the very persistent Mark Bonocore of Catholic Apologetics International, summary of the above challenge, also messages from Phil Porvaznik to James White and Jason Engwer from the same Email exchange
• An Outline of the Catholic Case Against Sola Scriptura - The main reasons that Catholics (and Orthodox) do not hold to the "Bible only" belief.
• Does the Bible Teach Sola Scriptura?
  A Fundamentalist friend of Eric Williams from RCatholic-L thinks so, here's Phil Porvaznik detailed rebuttal
• Discussion on Sola Scriptura, Tradition and Infallibility - A prominent FidoNet anti-Catholic Baptist (David Goforth) and Phil Porvaznik discuss Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone), tradition, the infallibility of the Church, and we interact with James White's new book The Roman Catholic Controversy when it was first published
• The Bible Alone?
• Tradition, Bible, Or Both?
• Protestants and Sola Scriptura
• Inspiration, Tradition, and Scripture
• Practical Problems of Sola Scriptura
• Two Canons: Scripture and Tradition
• What is the Gospel ?
• Sola Scriptura and Private Judgment
• "If Jesus didn't believe the Bible was the sole rule of faith, why did he quote it in disputes?"
• "The Church says that Tradition doesn't change, but when I look at all of the changes in the past few years, it seems to me that it does. Explain this to me."
• "Doesn't Revelation 22 render the Catholic doctrine of Tradition unviable?"
• Apostolic Tradition
• What Happens When Sola Scriptura is Affirmed? - Sects multiply like rabbits, and essential doctrine is denied -- A lesson in early American Protestant history, adapted from Nathan Hatch's interesting study The Democratization of American Christianity.