Practical Apologetics
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I'm a convert to the Catholic Church. I grew up in a Christian home but with over 30000 protestant denominations teaching contradictory things I went on a search for the Church Jesus founded in the first century. To make a long story short with overwhelming evidence there was no other choice but the Catholic Church.
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
The Early Church Fathers on various topics: This was a 3700 hour project which included going through 22896 pages of the 38 volume set called Ante Nicene, Nicene, Post Nicene Fathers. I compiled 255 pages of quotes showing that the Early Church was always and completely Catholic. All of these quotes can be verified and found from the source which is free online.
Clement of Rome First Epistle ch (44 27-97 ad)
Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and there would be strife on account of the office of the episcopate. For this reason, therefore, inasmuch as they had obtained a pe ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
The Early Church Fathers on various topics: This was a 3700 hour project which included going through 22896 pages of the 38 volume set called Ante Nicene, Nicene, Post Nicene Fathers. I compiled 255 pages of quotes showing that the Early Church was always and completely Catholic. All of these quotes can be verified and found from the source which is free online.
Ignatius of Antioch Epistle to the Romans preface [50-117 AD]
"Ignatius . . . to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of pr ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
Of all the things you could be, why be Catholic? GK Chesterton said “the difficulty of explaining why I am Catholic is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.”
I’m not going to be giving reasons that God exists like the fine tuning argument, Aquinas’ 5 ways, CS Lewis’ trilema, ndes, or the other arguments. You can ask about that later if you want to.
This is mainly going to be a comparison between Catholic Christianity and Non Catholic Christianity. If I call non Catholic Christians protestants it is by habit. Technically they are not all pr ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
The Early Church Fathers on various topics: This was a 3700 hour project which included going through 22896 pages of the 38 volume set called Ante Nicene, Nicene, Post Nicene Fathers. I compiled 255 pages of quotes showing that the Early Church was always and completely Catholic. All of these quotes can be verified and found from the source which is free online.
Quoted authoritatively
Septuagint approval
Church Councils
Quoted or mentioned
Quoted Authoritatively
Epistle of Barnabas Ch 6 (70-90 ad)
For the prophet speaks against Israel, themselves, saying, Let us bind the just one, because ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
You can listen to the audio of this meeting here.
Meeting notes:
Benjamin franklin said failing to prepare is preparing to fail and that is what we are doing tonight.
No one in the country is doing what we are doing tonight. Having listened to a lot of preparedness information the most they ever mentioned was store food and know your neighbors because you will need each other. I have never heard of a group of people getting together to talk about how to feed entire towns apart from Joseph in the Old testament who saw hard times ahead and he prepared and not only did he save Egypt but t ..read more
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1y ago
Why did I make the Surge Protection Device?
I became aware of the threat in 2007 and started thinking about it in 2013. I took some measures back then but the world situation did not dictate an immediate threat. Now the world situation is serious. To quote Senator Ron Johnson in reference to an Electro Magnetic Pulse EMP or Geomagnetic disturbance GMD "There is 100% certainty that this will happen some time in our future." When Russia invaded Ukraine I scrambled to make something to put on our many tractors that would be affordable. Compare my $60 device with EMP Shield's $400 device ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
The Early Church Fathers on various topics: This was a 3700 hour project which included going through 22896 pages of the 38 volume set called Ante Nicene, Nicene, Post Nicene Fathers. I compiled 255 pages of quotes showing that the Early Church was always and completely Catholic. All of these quotes can be verified and found from the source which is free online.
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book 2 Ch 8 (150-215 ad)
He, then, who from among the Gentiles and from that old life has betaken himself to faith, has obtained forgiveness of sins once. But he who has sinned after this, on his repentan ..read more
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1y ago
Exodus 20 The command is given thou shall not kill and then moves on without any context of who or what you shall not kill. The pacifists point out that it is to not kill people period. Without any extra input to this verse to the sola scripturaist the conclusion should really include animals and plants too. Is that really what the intention of the command was? No, but it makes you think. If you need the entire scripture to show it isn’t talking about plants and animals, then maybe you need the same criteria to see if it is talking about people period or if certain circumstances are re ..read more
Practical Apologetics
1y ago
If you search these terms the same list of “historical” references come up. This same list is shared all over social media and it's praises are sung that their “traditional” practice has historical backing. However it is blatantly false and you do not spend over 3000 hours in the Early Church Fathers like I have and let these people get away spreading lies. I will go through each quote (in bold) demonstrating this.
St. Sixtus 1 (circa 115): “The Sacred Vessels are not to be handled by others than those consecrated to the Lord.”
Yes pope Sixtus said this but it also is not talking about commu ..read more
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1y ago
This Halloween thing is getting out of control. Lines are drawn down the middle and it appears to me that people in favor of Halloween deep down do not want to give it up that they are using weak arguments. Some such arguments appear to scare you by saying the Devil hates Halloween. The following are such.
The devil hates Halloween because it is the one time of year they are talking to their neighbors. The devil hates Halloween because kids are laughing. The devil hates Halloween because it allows kids to stay out late which the devil tricked their parents to be over protective and keep them ..read more