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The following Q&A's have been adapted from my correspondence over the years with many Catholics and Christians. Names and personal details are not shown.

• The Bible
• Authority
• Salvation
• The Church
• The Sacraments
• Mary & the Saints
• Christian Living
• Evangelism
• Ecumenism
• Last Things

• A Unique Book
• The Word of God

Sola Scriptura

• What is Sola Scriptura?
• Sola Scriptura Proved from Scripture
• 2 Timothy 3:16
• Disagreement Among Protestants
• Church Fathers on the Sufficiency of Scripture

Canon

• Which Books are Inspired?
• Church Role to Identify the Canon
• Who Gave Us the Bible?
• The Early Christians
• No New Revelations

Apocrypha

• Apocrypha are Not Canonical
• The Apocrypha contradict Scripture
• St Jerome on the Apocrypha
• Quoted in the New Testament?

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Church

• Pillar and Ground of Truth
• Bible or Magisterium?
• The Limits of Church Authority
• The Church Fathers
• Monarchical Bishop

Tradition

• Is Tradition Sacred?
• Defining the Trinity
• The Magician’s Hat
• In Praise of Tradition

Papacy

• Apostolic Succession
• Upon this Rock
• Rocks and Stones
• Was Peter a Pope?
• Power of the Keys
• Ex-cathedra
• Infallible Interpreter

Interpretation

• Liberty of Conscience
• Mind Control
• Private Interpretation
• Equivocation
• Fallible Understanding
• Questions to Ask Fundamentalist Friends

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Sin

• Are We Created Sinners?
• How Sinful are We?
• Venial and Mortal Sins

Redemption

• Is Salvation an Event or a Process?
• Predestination and Election
• Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?
• Temporal Punishment
• Fasting and Satisfaction
• Purgatory, The Need for Cleansing
• Suffering in Purgatory
• Did Christ Redeem the Whole World?
• Are We Co-Redeemers?
• The Sinner's Prayer
• The Date of the New Birth
• Work Out Your Salvation
• Faith and Works
• What Must I do to Inherit Eternal Life?
• Perseverance of the Saints

Justification

• God Justifies the Ungodly!
• By Faith Alone
• What is 'Sola Fide' (Faith Alone)?
• St James on Faith and Works
• The Believing Murderer!
• God's Grace and Human Works
• Catholic Justification by Works
• Was Martin Luther an Antinomian?
• Church Fathers on Justification
• Historic Protestant Teaching

False Gospels

• Different Ways to Heaven?
• Salvation by Works of the Law?
• Salvation Without Good Works?

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History

• Christ Preserves his Church
• The Church Before the Reformation
• One True and Catholic Church
• Christ Remains with his Church

Denominations

• 30,000?
• Which is the Right Denomination?
• Real Christians
• Real Catholics
• One Billion Catholics

Membership

• I Became a Catholic
• Remaining in the Catholic Church
• Leaving the Catholic Church
• Why I Left the Catholic Church
• Salvation Outside the Church
• Saved by Leaving the Roman Church?
• Damned for Leaving the Roman Church?

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Baptism

• What is the Meaning of Baptism?
• Should Infants be Baptised?
• The Biblical Pattern of Baptism
• Born of Water
• Baptismal Regeneration
• Church Fathers on Baptism

Penance

• Absolution is a Judicial Act
• Forgiving and Retaining Sins
• The Power of Binding and Loosing
• Auricular Confession

The Bread of Life

• Eating Jesus' Flesh
• Why did the Disciples Leave?

Eucharist

• Literal or Figurative?
• This is my Body...This is my Blood
• A Remembrance or a Sacrifice?
• Paul's Teaching in 1st Corinthians
• Communion with Bread Only
• Miracles
• Church Fathers on Bread and Wine
• Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

Mass

• A Sacrifice for Sin
• The Book of Hebrews
• Re-Presenting the Sacrifice of Christ
• Church Fathers on Eucharist Sacrifice

Priesthood

• No Catholic Priests in the Bible
• Celibacy & Sexual Abuse
• Do not Call Anyone Your Father

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Mary

• The Bible About Jesus' Mother
• My Attitude Towards the Blessed Mary
• Mary's Role in the Plan of Redemption
• Perpetual Virginity
• Is Mary our Mother?
• Is Mary our Mediatrix?
• Hail Mary
• The Rosary
• Veneration or Worship?
• Bowing Down Before Mary
• Marian Apparitions
• Church Fathers on the Immaculate Conception
• Woman Clothed with the Sun

Saints

• Every Christian is a Saint
• Praying to Saints: A Dangerous Practice
• Praying to Saints: An Unbiblical Practice
• Praying to Saints: Alleged Proof Texts
• Padre Pio
• Mother Theresa

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Suffering

• Uncertainty of Catholic Life
• Leaving Catholicism, Lingering Pains
• Flashbacks on Catholic Threats
• Depression
• Purpose in Suffering
• A Childless Woman Angry with God
• When a Baby Dies

Ethics

• Capital Punishment
• Facing Death
• Wine and Alcohol
• How Should we Dress?
• In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
• Abortion, The Slaughter of the Innocent

Sexuality

• Purity
• Premarital Sex
• Contraception and Birth Control
• Homosexuality is Sinful
• Homosexuality and Christian Liberty

Family

• Christian Marriage
• Mixed Marriages
• Divisions in the Home
• Opposition from Catholic Parents
• Religious Discord
• Divorce

Law

• The Second Commandment
• Graven Images
• Bowing Down Before Statutes
• Feasts and Holy Days
• Fish on Fridays
• Not Under the Law

Spirituality

• Confessing to Other Christians
• Self-inflicted Pain
• Testing my Religion
• Testing Spiritual Conversion

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• The Role of the Bible in Evangelism
• Religious Tolerance
• Bashing Catholics
• Quit Saying we are Wrong!
• James White
• Witnessing to Catholics

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• That They May Be One
• Unity and Truth
• Who is Guilty of Schism?
• Who Abandoned the Apostolic Faith?
• Are Catholics Christian?
• Catholics Believe in Jesus Too!
• Catholicism & Christianity Contrasted
• Catholic Curses on Evangelicals
• Is God the Father of Everyone?
• Do Muslims go to Heaven?
• Vatican and Islam

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• What Happens after Death?
• Second Coming of Christ
• Last Judgment
• Hell is Everlasting

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Anathema

Catholics who deny the ‘anathema’ statements of the ecumenical councils are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

(1) Always

(2) Sometimes

(3) Never.

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