Some of My “Church of Christ” Essays in Logical Order

Don’t know where to start? I recommend my essay When Did the Church Begin?

By Subject:

Christian Ecclesiology: (Available in paperback at Amazon)

• The Church of Christ Is Built on Rock
• The Church of Christ Is Hierarchical
• Local Churches of Christ Are Planted by, and Obedient to, the Hierarchy
• The Church of Christ Is Apostolic
• Outline: Ecclesial / Papal Authority in the Bible

Marriage and Sex: Response to Common Fundamentalist Attacks. Critique of popular and indicative CofC minister Steve Rudd’s anti-Catholic website bible.ca.

• Introduction
• Response: “Purposes”
• Response: “Guilt”
• Response: “Birth Control”
• Response: Celibacy Is “Satanic Doctrine”
• Response: “Scandal”
• Response: “Annulment Is Divorce”
• Closing Remarks and a Foundational Protestant Assumption

Rule of Faith: Catholic = Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, Protestant = Sacred Scripture Only (Available in paperback at Amazon)

• The Church Pre-Dates the Bible
• Christian Rule of Faith
• Christian Canon Cannot Determine Itself (Requires Church Authority)
• The Church Gave Us the Bible
• Acts 17:11 Explained
• “. . . not to go beyond what is written” Explained
• Negative Protestant Conditioning of “Traditions”
• 2 Timothy 3:16 Explained
• The Perfecting of the Saints

Baptism: The Protestant Church of Christ vs. the Catholic Church of Christ (Available in paperback at Amazon)

• The Church of Christ Recognizes Various Modes of Baptism
• Immersion-Only Baptism: False Premise #1
• Immersion-Only Baptism: False Premise #2
• Immersion-Only Baptism: False Premise #3
• Immersion-Only Baptism: False Premise #4
• Popular Abuses of Catholic Sources that Protestant Church of Christ Apologists Use to Defend Immersion-Only Baptism
• The Church of Christ Brings Its Children to Jesus
• Protestant Church of Christ Objection to Baptism #1
• Protestant Church of Christ Objection to Baptism #2

Apostasy and Restoration: (Available in paperback at Amazon)

• The Myth of the “Great Apostasy”
• A Comparative Religious Perspective on the Word “Apostasy”
• Protestant Church of Christ Proof of Apostasy #1
• Protestant Church of Christ Proof of Apostasy #2
• Perceived Secondary Scriptural Support for the Protestant Church of Christ’s Theory of Apostasy
• Additional Evidence Against the Protestant Church of Christ’s Theory of Apostasy

Spiritual Fatherhood:

• The Church of Christ Understands Spiritual Fatherhood
• “Call no man father on earth” Explained
• Is it Wrong to Address a Man as “Holy Father”?
• “Beware . . . of robes” Explained

On Creed:

• Creed: Part 1, “No Creed But The Bible” Proves Catholicism More Christian
• Creed: Part 2, Application of the Creed and Current CofC Disunity Regarding Baptism

On Holidays:

• CofC Personality Proves Which “Church” is Satanic
• CofC Love Poem
• Hanukkah Proves Catholicism More Plausible
• CofC Fear of Christmas Reveals Own Pride

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Resources:

Bibles

• New Advent (Greek, DR English, Latin)
• RSV, Revised Standard Version
• RSVCE, Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
• NIV, New International Version
• Latin Vulgate
• Douay-Rheims
• NAB, New American Bible
• Greek Interlinear (NT)
• Hebrew Interlinear (OT)
• Greek New Testament
• Septuagint (Protestantized / abridged)

Catechisms

• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
• Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Baltimore Catechism
• Catechism of Trent (Roman Catechism)
• “Essentials” Catechism

Early Church Fathers

• CCEL (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
• Guide to Early Church Documents
• Early Christian Writings
• Early Church Fathers with Texts
• Early Church Texts
• Early Christian Fathers, Texts
• The Church Fathers, Topical
• Early Church Fathers, Topical
• Teachings of the Fathers

Scripture Study

• Douay-Rheims Commentary
• Douay-Rheims Concordance
• Deuterocanonoical Concordance
• Agape Bible Studies
• Bible Chronology
• Topical Catholic Directory

Other

• Summa Theologica