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The Catholic apologist’s scriptural cheat sheet

last revised July 13th, 2002 by Christopher Wong (chris@the-wongs.net)

1 Jn 5:14-17 ... mortal/venial sins

Sola scriptura

Eucharist

Jn 21:25 ... not everything is in the Bible.

2 Thess 2:15; 2 Tim 2:2; 1 Cor 11:2; 1 Thess 2:13 ... Paul

Mt 26:26-27; Mk 14:22-24; Lk 22:19-20; 1 Cor 11:24-25 ... this

speaks of oral tradition.

is my body ... this is my blood.

Acts 2:42 ... early Christians followed apostolic tradition.

1 Cor 11:26-30 ... sinning against the body and blood.

2 Pet 3:16 ... Bible hard to understand, get distorted.

Jn 6:32-58 ... long discourse on Eucharist.

2 Jn 1:12; 3 Jn 1:13-14 ... more oral tradition.

Gen 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17 ... Melchizedek.

2 Pet 1:20-21 ... against personal interpretation.

Acts 2:42 ... breaking of bread.

Acts 8:30-31 ... guidance needed to interpret scriptures.

Ps 14:4; Ps 53:4; Is 9:18-20; Is 49:26; Micah 3:2-3; Rev 17:6,16

Heb 5:12 ... need to be taught.

... symbolic interpretation of Jn 6 inappropriate.

Ex 12:8,46 ... paschal lamb has to be eaten.

Sola fide

Jn 1:29; 1 Cor 5:7 ... Jesus is lamb of God, paschal lamb.

Jas 2:14-26 ... what good is faith w/o works?

Jn 4:31-34; Mt 16:5-12 ... Jesus speaks symbolically of food.

Heb 10:26-27, Rom 8:12-13 ... must avoid sin.

Baptism

Jas 5:20 ... "earning" forgiveness.

Jn 5:28-29; 2 Cor 5:10; Rom 2:6-13; Mt 25:32-46; Gal 6:6-10;

Acts 2:38-39; Acts 16:15; Acts 16:33; Acts 18:8; 1 Cor 1:16 ...

Rev 20:12 ... judgement according to works.

suggests baptism of all, incl. children.

Lk 6:46-49; Mt 7:21; Mt 19:16-21 ... must do will of God.

Jn 3:5; Rom 6:4; Mk 16:16 ... necessity of baptism.

1 Cor 9:27 ... "buffet my body"

Col 2:11-12 ... circumcision (normally performed on infants c.f.

Phil 2:12; 1 Pet 1:14-17 ... works have merit.

Lk 2:21; Gen 17:12) replaced by baptism.

1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:24; 1 Jn 5:3 ... keep commandments.

Acts 22:16 ... baptism removes sin.

Intellectual assent (1 Th 2:13), confidence in promise (Rom 4:2-

1 Pet 3:21 ... baptism saves by water.

3, Gen 15:5-6), obedience (Rom 1:5) and love (Gal 5:6)

Forgiveness of sins

implied by faith.

Jn 20:22-23 ... "if you forgive ... they are forgiven."

Salvation (once and for all?)

Mt 18:18 ... binding on earth and heaven.

1 Cor 9:27 ... after preaching ... I myself disqualified.

2 Cor 5:18 ... ministry of reconciliation.

1 Cor 10:12 ... thinks that he stands ... lest he fall.

Jas 5:14-16 ... forgiveness of sins, anointing of the sick,

Phil 2:12 ... work out salvation with fear and trembling.

confession.

Heb 4:1 ... fear of failing to reach salvation.

Lev 19:20-22 ... priests as mediators of forgiveness.

1 Jn 5:16-17 ... some sins are mortal, some not.

2 Cor 2:10 ... Paul forgives "in the presence of Christ" ("person

Rom 11:21-22 ... spare branches, continue or be cut off.

of Christ" in KJV).

Heb 6:4-8 ... believers can apostasize, be damned.

Papacy/infallibility

Heb 10:26-29 ... those sanctified who sin can still be damned.

Mt 16:18-19 ... Jesus gives Peter primacy: rock, keys, binding

2 Pet 2:20-21; 1 Cor 8:10-13; Gal 5:4 ... righteous can fall.

and loosing.

Deuterocanonicals

Is 22:22; Rev 1:18 ... keys as symbol of authority.

Deuterocanonicals were used in NT: 2 Mac 6:18-7:42 ... Heb

Jn 21:17 ... "feed my sheep"

11:35; Wisdom 3:5-6 ... 1 Pet 1:6-7; Wisdom 13:1-9 ... Rom

Mt 10:1-4; Mk 3:16-19; Lk 6:14-16; Acts 1:13; Lk 9:32 ... Peter

1:18-32

mentioned first, as foremost apostle.

Septuagint (Gk, w/ Deuterocanonicals) version of OT quoted in

Mt 18:21; Mk 8:29; Lk 12:41; Jn 6:68-69 ... Peter speaks for the

NT, noticably different from Hebrew version: Is 7:14 ... Mt

apostles.

1:23; Is 40:3 ... Mt 3:3; Joel 2:30-31 ... Acts 2:19-20; Ps 95:7-

Acts 2:14-40 ... Pentecost: Peter who first preached.

Acts 3:6-7 ... Peter worked first healing.

9 ... Heb 3:7-9 etc.

Acts 10:46-48 ... Gentiles to be baptized revealed to Peter.

Purgatory

Jn 1:42 ... Simon is Cephas (Aramaic: Kepha for rock).

Lk 12:58-59; 1 Cor 3:15; Mt 5:25-26 ... temporary agony.

Lk 22:31-32 ... "Simon ... strengthen your brethren".

Heb 12:6-11 ... God's painful discipline.

Lk 10:1-2,16; Jn 13:20; 2 Cor 5:20; Gal 4:14; Acts 5:1-5 ...

Mt 12:32 ... no forgiveness ... nor in the age to come.

"vicars" (substitutes) of Christ.

1 Pet 3:18-20 ... might be purgatory (limbo?).

Mt 17:24-27 ... Peter, Jesus' representative, is exempt from

1 Pet 4:6 ... preached to the dead.

temple tax.

Rev 21:27 ... nothing unclean shall enter heaven.

Mk 6:20; Lk 1:70,2:23; Rom 12:1; Act 3:21, 1 Cor 7:14; Eph

Heb 12:23 ... souls in heaven are perfect.

3:5; Col 1:22 ... humans can be holy ("call no one holy").

Col 1:24; 2 Sam 12:13-14 ... "extra" suffering.

2 Mac 12:43-46 ... sacrifice for the dead. (not in Protestant

Bibles)

2 Tim 1:15-18 ... prayer for Onesiphorus for "that Day."

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