Baptism & Sacramentalism (Index Page)
Baptism
A Fictional Dialogue on Infant Baptism
Dialogue on the Biblical Evidence For Infant Baptism and Baptismal Regeneration (Dave Armstrong vs. Jack DisPennett)
Baptismal Formula: Trinitarian (Matt 28:19) or in Jesus' Name Only (Acts 2:38)?
Apostolic and Early Church Teaching on Baptism, and its Doctrinal Development
Dialogue: Baptism, the Mystical Body of Christ, and Implications for Ecumenism
Baptismal Regeneration: Luther, Wesley, and Anglicanism
Necessity of Baptism for Salvation vs. Baptism of Desire?
Baptism and its Parallel With Circumcision (John Calvin)
Why the Salvation Army Doesn't Baptize or Celebrate Holy Communion
Other Sacraments
HOLY EUCHARIST
(see also, Eucharist & Sacrifice of the Mass Index Page)
Catholic Answers For Protestant Eucharist Questions (Dave Armstrong and Dr. Stanley Williams)
Biblical Evidence for the Distribution of One Species in Holy Communion (+ Discussion)
Biblical Overview: The Sacrifice of the Mass
Eucharistic Sacrifice: The Witness of the Church Fathers & the Bible (+ Part II / Part III) (Dave Armstrong vs. "CPA")
History of the Doctrine of the Eucharist: Nine Protestant Scholarly Sources
RECONCILIATION / PENANCE / CONFESSION / ABSOLUTION
(see also, Saints, Purgatory, and Penance Index Page)
Biblical Evidence for Formal Forgiveness of Sins and Absolution (Confession)
Explicit Biblical Evidence for Indulgences + Some Important Historical Considerations
Martin Luther On the Sacrament of Absolution (and Private Confession)
CONFIRMATION
Biblical Evidence For the Sacrament of Confirmation
Martin Luther's Opinion of (the Catholic Sacrament of) Confirmation
Ruminations on "Optional" Confirmation Class and Mass Attendance for Teenage Children
HOLY ORDERS / ORDINATION
(see also, Church and Papacy Index Pages)
Biblical Evidence For the Sacrament of Holy Orders (Ordination)
The Biblical Evidence for Priests
Apostles Can Become Bishops (Apostolic Succession)
Bishops in the New Testament and the Early Church
The Visible, Hierarchical, Apostolic Church
Clerical Celibacy: The Biblical Rationale
The Irrational Antipathy of Luther, Calvin, and Other Protestants to Clerical Celibacy
MATRIMONY
(see also, Sexuality, Gender, Feminism, and Divorce and Life Issues Pages)
Biblical Evidence For the Sacrament of Matrimony (+ Discussion)
Biblical Evidence for the Prohibition of Divorce (+ Discussion)
Divorce: Early Church Teaching
Biblical Evidence for Annulments
Dialogue: Is Premarital Sex Wrong? (Dave Armstrong vs. C. Jack Elliott)
Does the Bible Condemn Homosexuality?
The Biblical Evidence Against Contraception
Dialogue: Why Did God Kill Onan? Why is Contraception Condemned by the Catholic Church?
Dialogue on Contraception and Natural Family Planning (NFP) (Dave Armstrong vs. "Grubb")
Contraception: Early Church Teaching (William Klimon)
Secular Social Science Vindicates Catholic Moral Teaching / Important Evangelical Protestants Rethinking Contraception (W. Bradford Wilcox)
ANOINTING / EXTREME UNCTION
Biblical Evidence For the Sacrament of Anointing (+ Discussion)
Sacramentalism and Sacramentals
Sacraments and the Moral Responsibility and Spiritual Benefits of Their Recipients
Sacramentalism and Inner Disposition
The Sarxon Fallacy, Refuted (Counter-Satire of an Evangelical Spoof of Catholic Eucharistic Beliefs)
Biblical Evidence for Holy Water (Nicholas Hardesty) (+ Discussion)
The Thief on the Cross (Are Sacraments Unnecessary?)
Martin Luther on Crucifixes, Images and Statues of Saints, and the Sign of the Cross



































