R. C. Sproul

  • Thread starter Thread starter anon49823460
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
R.C. tells the story about how he and his wife were on a trip by train. He wanted to be in the first car but couldn’t make it and ended up in the last car.

There was an accident and the train went off a bridge into the water. The first car and part of the second car were under water and a lot of people in the first car, if not all, died.

He tells the story more dramatically.

Peace,
Gene

P.S. He is also a sports nut. He has written a sports novel and an unproduced screenplay about a sports figure.
 
40.png
mercygate:
Hey, Love2B – looks like you’ve landed in the R. C. Sproul Catholic fan club! You might want to use him as a point of common ground between you and your wife because if she’s any kind of fundamentalist, and if she admires Sproul, he will bring her along the spectrum toward a fuller appreciation of Christian doctrine. This can be an inch-by-inch proposition.
Click to expand...
I’ve just listened to his first CD on Roman Catholicism. And I’m dropping out of the RC Sproul fan club (not that I’m ever sure that I joined). I’m happy to hear that he does a better job of explaining the Catholic faith but it was extremely frustrating to hear him pick and twist different Catholic writers to try and plant a non-unified position of the Catholic faith. I’m very happy to hear from the other posters on this thread that his plan backfired. Then again, God’s will will be done. Bravo to Everyman and Gene C!
 
And I don’t doubt for one second what God can do, but I’ll buy you a steak dinner if R.C. Sproul ever converts to the one true Church established by our Lord Jesus Christ. 🙂
 
Love_2B_an_EM:
I’ve just listened to his first CD on Roman Catholicism. And I’m dropping out of the RC Sproul fan club (not that I’m ever sure that I joined). I’m happy to hear that he does a better job of explaining the Catholic faith but it was extremely frustrating to hear him pick and twist different Catholic writers to try and plant a non-unified position of the Catholic faith. I’m very happy to hear from the other posters on this thread that his plan backfired. Then again, God’s will will be done. Bravo to Everyman and Gene C!
Click to expand...
I’m so glad to hear someone else say this. A few months back I caught several of his talks on our church on his radio show. It was apparent he was pretty clueless about the Catholic faith; it’s like he’d been to Mass a few times and read a few books, but didn’t really understand what was going on. What I found incredibly offensive was his discussion of the Vatican II’s discussion of Mary and how the Church’s position is “repugnant”–his word not mine. It troubles me that he’s teaching people on the Church without actually understanding it. Yes, he’s not a lunantic, but neither is he a friend of the Church.
 
Love_2B_an_EM:
I’ve just listened to his first CD on Roman Catholicism. And I’m dropping out of the RC Sproul fan club (not that I’m ever sure that I joined). I’m happy to hear that he does a better job of explaining the Catholic faith but it was extremely frustrating to hear him pick and twist different Catholic writers to try and plant a non-unified position of the Catholic faith. I’m very happy to hear from the other posters on this thread that his plan backfired. Then again, God’s will will be done. Bravo to Everyman and Gene C!
Click to expand...
This is extremely disappointing. I’m not so eager to follow Sproul that I will look into this myself, but I am sorry to learn that he seems to have changed his approach.
 
What I found incredibly offensive was his discussion of the Vatican II’s discussion of Mary and how the Church’s position is “repugnant”–his word not mine.
Click to expand...
I’ve also been listening to the Roman Catholicism series by R.C. Sproul. I’m a Presbyterian (PCA) with heavy Catholic leanings.

I heard what RC was calling “repugnant” on the first tape toward the end of the lesson. He was calling the doctrine of the “treasury of merit” according to Catholics “repugnant”. He said that we also believe in a treasury of merit, but we believe that any merit in that treasury is Christ’s merit and no one else’s merit.

Russ
 
40.png
rmax70:
I’ve also been listening to the Roman Catholicism series by R.C. Sproul. I’m a Presbyterian (PCA) with heavy Catholic leanings.

I heard what RC was calling “repugnant” on the first tape toward the end of the lesson. He was calling the doctrine of the “treasury of merit” according to Catholics “repugnant”. He said that we also believe in a treasury of merit, but we believe that any merit in that treasury is Christ’s merit and no one else’s merit.

Russ
Click to expand...
I must have misunderstood. It seems like the rest of the half hour he’d spent talking about Mary, but that was several months ago–thanks for the clarification. Either way, I’m not impressed with Sproul. I just loved how he ended (at least the parts that were aired) by saying that he didn’t want anyone in this class to think they were now experts on Catholicism. I thought that was hysterical, seeing as how he wasn’t really up on the subject himself.
 
40.png
Everyman:
Well, mainly, he’s an ardent proponent of the Protestant Reformation. He’s the most popular defender of Calvinism out there. And while he thinks the reformers threw the baby out with the bathwater on some issues (like getting rid of the confessional), he pretty much thinks they were right on. This is especially true when it comes to the issues of sola scriptura, sola fide, and sola gratia.

He is critical of much of modern, contempory evangelicalism, and this is what began my search into forms of Christianity that are dated prior to the Reformation. But Sproul himsef wouldn’t do this; he would probably think that I failed to make distictions and have just gone the way of Rome as a novelty and a desire for a nastalgic expression of faith. For him, the Catholic Church has erred in such a way that it is irretrevable.
Click to expand...
 
40.png
rmax70:
I’ve also been listening to the Roman Catholicism series by R.C. Sproul. I’m a Presbyterian (PCA) with heavy Catholic leanings.

I heard what RC was calling “repugnant” on the first tape toward the end of the lesson. He was calling the doctrine of the “treasury of merit” according to Catholics “repugnant”. He said that we also believe in a treasury of merit, but we believe that any merit in that treasury is Christ’s merit and no one else’s merit.

Russ
Click to expand...
Russ what is your opinion of the series? Thanks.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top