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		<title>Indulgences Are Biblical! (vs. Matthew Everhard)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  This is a transcript of the initial presentation of the video, Are Indulgences Biblical? Matthew Everhard says no, the Bible says YES! (Catholic Bible Highlights with Kenny Burchard, 4-17-26). ***** Matthew Everhard is a Presbyterian pastor. His YouTube channel, that goes by his name, has 80,000 subscribers. Today we’ll be taking a look at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Reformation&#8221; Debate (vs. Lutheran Nathan Rinne)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salvation & Justification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comparative soteriology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Featuring Massively Unbiblical “Faith Alone” &#38; St. Augustine’s Opposition to Imputed Justification: Just One Part of His Thoroughly Catholic Soteriology   Nathan Rinne has a degree in theology and is a vicar of Clam Falls Lutheran Church in Wisconsin. This congregation is part of the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC), which is a small [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Confirmation: Biblical Evidences (vs. Patrick O&#8217;Brien)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baptism and Sacramentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anointing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confirmation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[receiving the Holy Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacrament of confirmation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacramentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seven sacraments]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Including Documentation of Protestant Espousal of the Rite of Confirmation &#38; Brief Clarification of Anathemas   Patrick O’Brien is a former Catholic Protestant anti-Catholic apologist, who obtained a Masters of Divinity degree from Liberty University. He runs the Philippians 1:9 Ministries YouTube channel, that has 11,800 subscribers. Today we’ll be critiquing his video called, “Sacrament [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1 Thessalonians 4 = Rapture? (vs. Patrick O&#8217;Brien)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Hell & Satan & Last Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dispensationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eschatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Coming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribulation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Patrick O’Brien is a former Catholic Protestant anti-Catholic apologist. He has a Facebook page called The Bible in Context, with 66,000 followers. He offers many reels, or brief videos there, including one called, “Rapture is in the Bible!!!” In it he chides my old friend, Catholic apologist Steve Ray, who asked where “the Rapture” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mary Mother of God: Reply to Allie Beth Stuckey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Blessed Virgin Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deity of christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divinity of Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God-bearer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Allie Beth Stuckey is a Reformed Baptist mostly known as a conservative political commentator. Her YouTube channel has 712,000 subscribers. Today, we’re replying to part of her video entitled, “The Mary Debate: Did Jesus Have Siblings? &#38; Other Dogmas” (7-30-25). It has over 85,000 views as of this writing, and more than 5,000 comments. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>350 Bible Passages vs. Sola Scriptura</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible and Tradition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bible Only]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rule of Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture Alone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sola Scriptura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tradition]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[[all Bible passages from RSV] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Definition of Sola Scriptura 2 Authoritative Oral &#38; Written Tradition (Parodosis) in the Bible [33] 3 Oral Torah [6] 4 Jewish Talmudic Traditions Cited by Jesus [16] 5 Extra-Biblical Jewish Literature Cited by the Bible [26] 6 Perspicuity or Clearness of Scripture / Definitive Interpretation of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>God, Modern Physics, &#038; Dark Energy: An Analogy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2026/04/god-modern-physics-dark-energy-an-analogy.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism & Agnosticism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trinitarianism & Christology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  This is the initial transcript for the video, What is God Made of? (Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 4-10-26). ***** Does modern science have anything to say about the existence of God, Whom Christians believe to be an eternal spirit? Is the idea of a spirit itself an absurd, unverifiable idea? Science by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catholics R Christians! DUH! (vs. Steve Christie)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antichrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pelagians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Christie]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Protestant anti-Catholic apologist Steve Christie runs the BornAgainRN YouTube channel, where he produced the video, A Response to Dr. Gavin Ortlund ‪@TruthUnites‬: “Are Catholics Christians?” (12-20-24). As of 4-6-26, it has 3,748 views and 671 comments. I think it deserves a thorough refutation, and so this is my reply. His words will be in blue. ***** [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Venerating Men &#038; Angels: Worship? 20 Bible Passages</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Saints & Purgatory & Penance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bowed to the ground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obeisance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prospipto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shachah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veneration of angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veneration of saints]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  This is the transcript of the initial presentation in the video, Is Venerating Men and Angels Always Worship? 20 Biblical Examples say NO! (Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 4-3-26). ***** Revelation 19:10 (RSV) Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proof That Calvin Affirmed Mary&#8217;s Perpetual Virginity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Armstrong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Calvin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perpetual Virginity of Mary]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[. . . Contrary to the Claims of Protestant Apologist Steve Christie &#38; Catholic Apologist Trent Horn / St. Basil the Great and Almost All of the Church Fathers Held to Mary’s Perpetual Virginity / Early Protestantism Virtually Unanimously Agrees   [John Calvin’s words will be in blue; Steve Christie’s in green; St. Basil the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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