Scott Cooper
@imscoop22
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Christian, husband, father, orphan advocate, church history enthusiast and student.
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Joined March 2009
It is not revealed in Scripture. It is helpful to study the history—Catholic orders denounced each other for centuries. Catholic Answers won't teach the history:
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This thesis examines the debates between the Jesuits, Franciscans, and Dominicans about the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary through sermons and artwork in Madrid and Seville from 1595...
@Truth_matters20 Nice try, but the Deposit of Faith includes scripture (see Luke 1:28). My point was Mary did not *have* to be immaculately conceived. An omnipotent God can become man any number of ways. However, it was fitting God did this and this has been revealed in scripture/tradition.
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Respect earned...
Several months ago, Inquisitor (@WesternCatholik) posted a video response to a few old blog posts of mine and two videos on the topic of St. Jerome and the episcopacy. Besides one point of agreement we already had (the date of institution according to St. Jerome), if memory
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An excellent book. Dr. Gallagher book, "Translation of the Seventy" on the Septuagint is another must have.
For a more in-depth conversation on the issues and complexities of the OT canon make sure to get your hands on Drs. Ed Gallagher & John Meade’s book The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Text and Analysis. Also don’t forget to watch Dr. Mead’s talk on the subject from
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Some of the Fathers as early as the fifth century supported the view that this forty days' fast was of Apostolic institution...But the best modern scholars are almost unanimous in rejecting this view... Apologists that block you when you cite these things
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I guess making a statement like that is easier than engaging the content. I share their experience. Side note: it's amazing how unified they are, despite the common caricature of Protestants as hopelessly divided. Reformed, Baptist, and Lutheran...one gospel, one voice here...
These three have really gone downhill.
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IV. The Presidency at Councils.— ...True, ancient authorities do undoubtedly attribute a presidency at general councils to the Emperor. William E. Addis and Thomas Arnold, A Catholic Dictionary (New York: The Catholic Publication Society Co., 1887), 229.
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@LutheranSage I’m sorry about this brother, my intention was never to bring any unintended criticism on the content of the post, merely recognized the image as it’s one I’ve worked with quite a bit. If these people are being drawn from my content I would encourage them to stop being more
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I'm not Catholic and spend a lot of time defending Protestant history/contending with Catholic claims, but this is idiocy. I'm sure she hasn't traced a single dollar, and has likely never housed a refugee, cared for an orphan, or seen what groups like Catholic Charities do.
Oh, give me a break. The reason the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is speaking out against Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants is it directly cuts into their own funding. The federal government was paying them hundreds of millions of dollars to facilitate housing etc.
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I wasn’t going to respond to Candace publicly, but I was genuinely hurt by her accusation that I don’t care about who killed Charlie because I expressed concern for the lives of people who have been implicated in her series on CK’s murder. That couldn’t be further from the
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Shortly after the much-discussed Ted Cruz-Tucker Carlson interview that discussed #Israel in June, I wrote an op-ed that I ultimately couldn’t get placed. Now that we’re about five months later, I’m just releasing it myself since I don’t want to see it go entirely to waste
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The link to my piece on #Israel in the Bible, the modern nation-state of Israel, and how they have been understood in traditional Jewish and Christian theologies here: https://t.co/5UPzQfjRAK
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Ratzinger: "Altaner, the patrologist from Würzburg..., had proven in a scientifically persuasive manner that the doctrine of Mary’s bodily Assumption into heaven was unknown before the fifth century..." - but pope Brian relies on his personal rendition of history.
I’m more familiar with traditional dating on the Assumption which is on or about 57 A.D. and there are plenty of reasons for that.* If you can cite something that’s at least Sententia Communis I’m happy to evaluate a date change. Otherwise I’ll stick with 57 A.D. *
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My chapter (and others) on “The Formation of the Christian Canon” in the forthcoming @OUPAcademic Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible can be freely read on Google Books. I hope it’s useful to you. https://t.co/yC9ypM0Pdx
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For anyone that is interested in actually studying history, rather than mindlessly believing and repeating social media apologetic propaganda: https://t.co/ApDTpctk6V
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In 1929 papyrologist C.H. Roberts published a papyrus fragment from Egypt.[ref]C. H. Roberts , Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Volume III, Theological...
The earliest Christian prayer to Mary dates back to 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟱𝟬 𝗔.𝗗. Found on an Egyptian papyrus, it proves early Christians already called her 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘬𝘰𝘴 - 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 - and sought her intercession long before any “medieval invention.” Full
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Most Catholics have no clue that these categories post-date the Reformation, that most of the public domain texts they read in these categories were translated by Protestants, and that they only represent a fraction of the texts that once existed.
Some Evangelicals have no clue who the “Early Church Fathers” were. Here’s the breakdown: first, the Apostles were NOT “Early Church Fathers”—they were “APOSTLES”. The “Early Church Fathers” fall into 3 categories: • Apostolic Fathers: contemporaries of the Apostles; probably
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I feel like there should be a Babylon Bee meme about a guy that doesn't know Greek and became an expert in 2,000 years of history in 3 months of intense personal internet study.
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Undoubtedly, one of the greatest preachers of our generation... Voddie Baucham 1969-2025
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A simple strategy can help these days: focus on meeting needs right around us. There is so much that is broken and discouraging, and it's easy to get overwhelmed. Redirecting our attention toward the problems we can actually help is not only more productive, but keeps us sane.
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In case the point somehow gets lost, in my view, the historical argument for credobaptism is secondary. I don’t hold to credobaptism because of its early history. Chiefly, IMO, the Bible’s narrative arc, developed by the covenants along the axis of redemptive history, 1/
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