Top Ten Apologetics Topics

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Whether you are Catholic or not, you recognize there are significant differences that divide Christianity.

Based upon what you have seen in this forum or upon the issues that are most critical to you personally, please identify what you consider to be the “top ten” most commonly argued issues. For example: Mary, Papacy, Inffalibility, Sola Scriptura, Purgatory, etc.

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Whether you are Catholic or not, you recognize there are significant differences that divide Christianity.

Based upon what you have seen in this forum or upon the issues that are most critical to you personally, please identify what you consider to be the “top ten” most commonly argued issues. For example: Mary, Papacy, Inffalibility, Sola Scriptura, Purgatory, etc.

Use the following template and fill in the blanks.Thanks.
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  1. Sola Scriptura
  2. Sola Fide
  3. Marian devotion
  4. Soteriology (Salvation)
  5. Purgatory
  6. Eucahristic Real Presence
  7. Magesterial authority
  8. The Papacy
  9. The Deuterocanonical Books
  10. Priestly celibacy
That looks about right from my experience.
Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum.
 
  1. Marian devotion
  2. Eucharist
  3. Salvation and whether or not we can lose it
  4. Sola Scriptura
  5. infant Baptism
  6. Papal Infallibitity
  7. confession
  8. Communion of saints
  9. Inquisition
  10. Purgatory
God bless
 
  1. Immaculate Conception
  2. Praying to Mary
  3. Papal authority
  4. Nature of the Church
  5. Mortal sins
  6. Faith and works
  7. Assumption
  8. History of the Church
  9. Praying to the Saints
  10. Married Priesthood
 
  1. Sola Scriptura
Pretty much everything else that can be argued (Mary, the Pope, saved by faith alone, purgatory, ect…) is based on the issue of authority.

Does this authority come from Scripture alone, if so then Protestantism is true.

If this authority comes from Scripture, and the teaching of the Church through Tradition and the Magisterium, then Catholicism is true.
 
  1. Why be Religious
  2. Relativism
  3. Your Church has so many sinners
  4. Homosexuality
  5. Contraception
  6. Priestesses
  7. Positivism
  8. Evolution
  9. Conscience makes it OK
  10. Existence of God
 
from working with converts outside the forum I would list
  1. Marriage in the Catholic Church (their marriage)
    2T) the difference in Catholism verses Protestant
    2T) Pope which they think is the root of Catholism
  2. Salvation outside the Church (do catholic’s believe non catholic can not go to heaven)
  3. Mary
  4. The order of Mass (their lost outside the readings)
  5. the Eucharist as the new covenant
  6. Sacraments (outside of marriage and baptism)
  7. How many people and statues are Catholics praying to?
  8. Presumption in various forms
 
1.) Universal authority/Rome primacy as shown by ECF’s or lack thereof…
2.) Scriptural basis for Papacy or lack thereof…
3.) Mariology or Marianity (all things Mary)
4.) Faith vs Faith/works
5.) Interpretation of scripture
6.) Idols/Icons
7.) Scripture vs magesterium
8.) Rapture vs 2nd coming
9.) Anything OT
10.) Moral judgements
 
It depends on my location. You get different stuff from different groups.
  1. Monotheism/Trinity
  2. Universalism/Hell
  3. “works” salvation
  4. scripture alone
  5. Why Bother?
  6. Marian issues
  7. all those stupid rules (like contraception, remarriage)
  8. scandal (historical events, bad popes, sexual abuse, etc)
uh, I’m a little stuck here
  1. relativism?
  2. finds it unreasonable to just believe, too rational?
 
  1. God: Patient or Impatient?
  2. Christ: Incarnation or Incarnations?
  3. Holy Spirit: Here or Here-and-There?
  4. Resurrection: Physical-only or Other?
  5. Theosis: Yay or Nay?
  6. Sin: total depravity or incomplete corruption?
  7. Hell: temporary or eternal?
  8. Heaven: static or evolutionary?
  9. God: separate or Only?
  10. Faith-Alone, or Faith-and-Obedience?
 
1 Sola Scriptura
2 Sola Fide
3 Mariology/Marian Doctrines
4 Eucharist
5 Sacred Apostolic Tradition
6 Magisterium
7 Communion of Saints
8 Confusing Doctrinal Definition with Doctrinal Invention
9 Private Revelations vs Work of Satan?
10 Miracles in the Catholic Church vs Work of Satan?
 
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