Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White: Anti-Catholic Extraordinaire

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[Nov. 2013; 395 pages. See full book and purchase information]

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[James White informed me in a letter dated 10 January 2001 that he was a bishop: “I am an elder in the church: hence, I am a bishop, overseer, pastor, of a local body of believers”. So I have called him that ever since [see more material giving the background and rationale for this, based on White’s own stated beliefs]. As for his supposed doctorate (hence my quotation marks and question mark), see the appropriate section below. Thus we have the double irony of his not wanting to be called what he claims he is (a bishop), while he falsely calls himself what he clearly isn’t (an academic “Doctor” with an authentic, earned doctorate degree]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I. BASIC ISSUES / ANTI-CATHOLICISM / THE GREAT DEBATE

II. BIBLE AND TRADITION / SOLA SCRIPTURA / RULE OF FAITH / CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE CATHOLIC VERSES

III. CHRISTOLOGY

IV. DEBATE CHALLENGES (WHITE’S PERSISTENT REFUSAL TO ENGAGE IN WRITTEN OR “LIVE CHAT” DEBATE)

V. EUCHARIST / SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

VI. THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

VII. THE PAPACY / COUNCIL OF NICAEA / ECCLESIOLOGY / DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE

VIII. PURGATORY AND TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT / PENANCE

IX. APOLOGETIC METHODOLOGY / PRESUPPOSITIONALISM

X. SOTERIOLOGY / SALVATION / TULIP / JUSTIFICATION / FAITH AND WORKS

XI. CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE ONE-MINUTE APOLOGIST

XII. COMMUNION OF SAINTS / INVOCATION OF SAINTS

XIII. FAKE “DOCTORATE” / TEACHING CREDENTIALS

XIV. INSULTS AND AD HOMINEM ATTACKS

XV. ANALYSES OF CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM

XVI. MISCELLANEOUS

XVII. BAPTISM AND SACRAMENTALISM

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I. BASIC ISSUES / ANTI-CATHOLICISM / THE GREAT DEBATE

Is Catholicism Christian or Not? [“Postal Debate”: March-May 1995]

Part I: Introduction and My Initial Form Letter (23 March 1995)

Part II: Mr. White’s 7-Page Initial Reply (6 April 1995)

Part III: My 16-Page First Counter-Reply (22 April 1995)

Part IV: Mr. White’s 17-Page Second Counter-Reply (4 May 1995)

Part V: My 36-Page Second Counter-Reply (15 May 1995) and Mr. White’s One-Page “Reply” (10 November 1995)

My Four Ballyhooed Debates w Anti-Catholics (All Forfeited): My Opponent Split Before It Was Over, Every Time (!) [5-21-20]

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II. BIBLE AND TRADITION / SOLA SCRIPTURA / RULE OF FAITH / CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE CATHOLIC VERSES

Dialogue on “Perspicuous Apostolic Teaching” [May-June 1996]

“Moses’ Seat” & Jesus vs. Sola Scriptura [12-27-03]

Jerusalem Council vs. Sola Scriptura [9-2-04]

James White Critiques My Book, The Catholic Verses (Introduction) [12-29-04]:

Part I: Binding Tradition [12-30-04]

Part II: Rabbit Trail Diversion [12-30-04]

Part III: Ad Hominem [12-31-04]

Part IV: I’m an Ignorant Convert? [12-31-04]

Part V: Deceiver Dave [1-1-05]

Part VI: Penance and Redemptive Suffering [1-2-05]

Refutation of James White: Moses’ Seat, the Bible, and Tradition (Introduction: #1) (+Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI) [5-12-05]

The Catholic Verses: James White Ain’t Got a Clue [10-1-07]

St. Athanasius Was a CATHOLIC, Not a Proto-Protestant (+ Counter-Reply to James White on Tradition, etc.) [12-26-07]

Vs. James White #2: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 1 [9-17-19]

Vs. James White #3: Sola Scriptura Debate w Matatics, Pt. 2 [9-18-19]

Rome, the Biblical Canon, & Tradition (vs. Turretinfan & James White) . . . Observed in the Views of John of Damascus (aka John Damascene: c. 676-749) [11-7-19]

Vs. James White #10: Arbitrary Tradition Re the Canon [11-14-19]

Vs. James White #14: Word of God / the Lord Usually Oral (+ White’s Own Erroneous Definition of Sola Scriptura in 1990 (at the same time I got it right) [11-18-19]

Vs. James White #16: St. Basil Held to Sola Scriptura? [11-19-19]

I Refuted James White’s Favorite Defenses of Sola Scriptura [11-11-19; expanded on 5-11-20]

Hebrews 10:12, Vulgate, & the Mass (James White’s Lie) [9-3-21]

“Reformed Biblicism”: Reply to James White [8-17-22]

Jerusalem Council Disproves Sola Scriptura (vs. James White) [2-28-24]

Church Fathers & Sola Scriptura: Reply To James White Claims: Myths Regarding Cyprian, Augustine, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Athanasius [3-16-24]

Comment: James White vs. Tim Staples on the Rule Of Faith (Including St. Athanasius’ Rule of Faith & the Indefectibility of the OT “Proto-Church”) [5-9-24]

Debate On Sola Scriptura (vs. Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White) [5-13-24]

Reply to James White On Oral Tradition [5-13-24]

Sola Scriptura: Reply to James White (Akin Debate) [5-16-24]

Luther, Church Offices, + Swan’s & White’s Ignorance [6-11-24]

III. CHRISTOLOGY

Who’s Ignorant: “Schizo Jesus” or Bishop James White? [10-19-22]

IV. DEBATE CHALLENGES (WHITE’S PERSISTENT REFUSAL TO ENGAGE IN WRITTEN OR “LIVE CHAT” DEBATE)

Oral vs. Written Debates About Theology: Which is Better? [Jan. 2001; rev. 9-30-04]

James White Declines “Live Chat” Debate: with Insults (Proposed Topic: Theological Definition of “Christian”? / Is Catholicism Properly Called “Christian”?) [3-6-07]

James White: “Vow Breaker” Lie + His Resolve to Avoid Me (Also, Bishop “Dr.” [???] White’s 2001 Debate Proposal vs. My Various [Declined] Debate Proposals) [4-4-07, with additions of older 2001 material on 3-7-17]
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Entertainment File: James White Makes a Now-Rare Mention of Me on His Webcast (and is factually wrong, as usual) [Facebook, 6-16-17]

Vs. James White #7: My Refutations of Calvinism & His Non-Replies [11-12-19]
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James White Begged Me to Leave Him Alone (Jan. 2001) (+ His Continual Fleeing in Terror from Me (Since 1995) at the Prospect of a Horrifying Sustained Written Debate) [4-4-07 and 3-7-17, with additional materials and editing on 8-12-22]

V. EUCHARIST / SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

Sacrifice of the Mass & Hebrews 8 (vs. James White) [3-31-04]

Vs. James White #5: Real Eucharistic Presence or Symbolism? [9-20-19]

VI. THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Assumption & Immaculate Conception: Part of Apostolic Tradition (dialogue) [June 1996]

“Live Chat” Debate on Mary (vs. James White) [12-29-00; “footnotes” added shortly afterwards]

Critique of Mary — Another Redeemer? by James White (Whitewashing History: By William Possidento and Dave Armstrong) [3-12-04; slight revisions and updated links: 6-12-20]

Defense of Critique of Jame’s White’s Misinformed Mariology (particularly with regard to the differing views on early Mariology of Protestant Church historians J.N.D. Kelly and Philip Schaff) (vs. James Swan) [3-15-04 and 9-7-05]

“Marian Stains”: “Dr.” [???] James White Gets His Wish! [4-23-05]

Mary Mediatrix and the Church Fathers (+ Documentation That White Accepts the Scholarship of the Protestant Church Historians I Cite [J. N. D. Kelly and Philip Schaff] ) [9-7-05]

James White’s Relentless Sophistry in Our Live Chat on Mariology [12-2-07]

Perpetual Virginity of Mary Mocked by James White [3-18-17]

Vs. James White #12: Mary the Woman of Revelation 12 [11-7-19]

My Four Ballyhooed Debates w Anti-Catholics (All Forfeited): My Opponent Split Before It Was Over, Every Time (!) [5-21-20]

A “Biblical” Immaculate Conception? (vs. James White) [8-27-21]

The Queen Mother & the Bible (vs. James White) [10-8-21]

Quick Refutation of James White Re Praying to Mary [Facebook, 5-10-24]

VII. THE PAPACY / COUNCIL OF NICAEA / ECCLESIOLOGY / DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE

Pope Silvester and the Council of Nicaea [August 1997]

Bishops: NT, Early Church, & Baptists [1-16-01]

Only Catholics Issue Anathemas Against Dissenters? [3-12-04]
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Council of Nicea: Reply to James White: Its Relationship to Pope Sylvester, Athanasius’ Views, & the Unique Preeminence of Catholic Authority [4-2-07]

James White Deacons-Elders-Bishops Controversy (Original title: “Dumbbells and Deacons: Does No Protestant Denomination Whatsoever Regard Deacons as the Equivalent of Pastors and Elders — or Even Bishops?) [6-16-07]

Is James White Really This Clueless? (The Mythological “Liberal” Pope Francis) [Facebook, 12-4-14]
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33,000 [?] Denominations & “Thankful” James White (I Rejected This Absurd Number Way Back in 2004) [2-20-16]

Vs. James White #9: White’s Self-Title of “Bishop” (I Use It!) (+ Why He Called Himself a Bishop, According to His Reformed Baptist Beliefs / White Responds, Arguing that Calling Him His Own Title is “Slander”) [3-14-17; slightly revised 11-13-19]

Vs. James White #1: “Papal Pretensions” & “New” Apologists [9-16-19]

James White: Hypocritical Use of “Roman Catholic Church” [11-11-19]

Vs. James White #15: Canon & “Catholic” Traditions [11-18-19]

Thoughts: Jam es White & Cameron Bertuzzi & Catholicism (Primarily Concerning the Papacy) [5-17-22]

Odd James White View Re Matthew 16:19 & the “Keys” [8-15-22]

Yes, James White; the Pope Is Infallible, Now, Just As He Always Has Been (I Educate Him as to Where Caving on the Nature of Marriage Has Actually Occurred) [Facebook, 2-26-24]

Quick Refutation of James White Re Papal Infallibility in the Bible [Facebook, 5-10-24]

Peter the Rock: Only a Catholic View? (vs. James White) [Includes Documentation of 14 Church Fathers Who Thought Peter Was the Rock] [5-11-24]

VIII. PURGATORY AND TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT / PENANCE

Purgatory: Refutation of James White (1 Corinthians 3:10-15) [3-3-07]

Does Time & Place Apply to Purgatory? (vs. James White) [11-6-19]

Vs. James White #11: Biblical Evidence for Indulgences [11-15-19]

Temporal Punishment Is Biblical (James White Was Wrong): + a “New” Argument on How Protestant “Faith Alone” Helps Prove the Absolute Necessity of Purgation After Death [2-26-24]
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“The Day” (1 Cor 3:13) & Purgatory (Vs. James White) [2-27-24]

IX. APOLOGETIC METHODOLOGY / PRESUPPOSITIONALISM

More James White Orwellian “Doublethink”: Greg Bahnsen Thought R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner Were Exceedingly Stupid Too, Regarding Presuppositionalism [4-13-07, at Internet Archive]
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X. SOTERIOLOGY / SALVATION / TULIP / JUSTIFICATION / FAITH AND WORKS

Total Depravity: Reply to James White: Calvinism and Romans 3:10-11 (“None is Righteous . . . No One Seeks For God”) [4-15-07]

Reply to James White on the Papacy and Soteriology: His So-Called “Review” of My Book, The One-Minute Apologist [6-14-07]
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Bishop James White on the Book of James: His Juvenile “Challenge” Will be Met [10-7-13]

Reply to James White’s Exegesis of James 2 in Chapter 20 of His Book, The God Who Justifies [10-9-13]

Limited Atonement, Free Will, & Failed Prayers of Jesus [7-18-14]

Vs. James White #4: Eternal Security of Believers? [9-19-19]

Vs. James White #6: Faith & Works, and First John [11-11-19]

Vs. James White #7: My Refutations of Calvinism & His Non-Replies [11-12-19]

Vs. James White #8: St. Basil on Mortal & Venial Sin [11-13-19]

Limited Atonement: Refutation of James White [9-1-21]

Jesus vs. James White on Who Can be Saved [10-12-21]

XI. CRITIQUE OF MY BOOK, THE ONE-MINUTE APOLOGIST

Bishop James White is Buying and “Critiquing” My Books Again (The One-Minute Apologist)! [Facebook, 6-14-07]

Reply to James White on the Papacy and Soteriology: His So-Called “Review” of My Book, The One-Minute Apologist [6-14-07]

Reply to James White on Communion of Saints [6-20-07]

XII. COMMUNION OF SAINTS / INVOCATION OF SAINTS

Reply to James White on Communion of Saints [6-20-07]

Heaven-Earth Communication in Book of Revelation: James White Contradicts Explicit Biblical Teaching on the Communion of Saints Yet Again! [9-2-18]

Vs. James White #11: Biblical Evidence for Indulgences [11-15-19]

Vs. James White #13: Jesus Taught Invocation of Saints (And by James White’s “Reasoning,” Jesus Couldn’t be God and was a Blaspheming False Teacher) [11-16-19]

XIII. FAKE “DOCTORATE” / TEACHING CREDENTIALS

James White’s Bogus “Doctorate” Degree (vs. Mark Bainter) [9-16-04]

James White’s Bogus “Doctorate” Degree, Part II (vs. Jamin Hubner) [6-29-10]

James White Bogus “Doctorate” Issue Redux: Has No One Ever Interacted With His Self-Defense? / White Takes His Lumps from Baptist Peter Lumpkins [2-20-11]

Doktor James White on Fudging His Teaching Assignments (by Baptist Peter Lumpkins; see also my Facebook link and further comments and documentation in that combox) [3-23-11]

James White Compared to Adjunct Faculty Members at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary [3-27-11; at Internet Archive]

James White’s “Doctorate”: Dialogue w Seminary’s Rick Walston [4-5-13]

James White is Working on a Doctorate? Huh?! [Facebook, 8-16-22]

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The Fake Degree of James White, A Cautionary Tale (You Tube Video by Dr. David A. Falk, an Egyptologist)

XIV. INSULTS AND AD HOMINEM ATTACKS

Documentation of James White Posts That Are Solely Personal Insults, Without Any Substance or Actual Counter-Reply (Reply to “Turretinfan”) [9-23-07, at Internet Archive]
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James White Hit-Piece on His Podcast, The Dividing Line (2-19-08): Mocking and Saying Ridiculous Things About One of My Radio Interviews [Facebook, 4-25-17]

Bishop James White: My (and Steve Ray’s) Wicked, Nefarious Motives As “Bad” Catholic Apologists / Objects to Use of His Own Publicity Photo (!) [Facebook, 8-1-08]

James White’s Obsession: Trashing Apologist Steve Ray [4-5-09]

James White: “All of Rome’s apologists are simply dishonest” [Sep. 2010]
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James White Sez on His Webcast That I “Project Abject Looniness” and Have “Absolutely” No “Credibility” [Facebook, 2-26-11]

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Another Anti-Catholic Gem at My Expense from Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White [Facebook, 11-20-14]
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Bishop White Honors Devin Rose with a Caricature (+ history of his caricatures of me) [Facebook, 1-11-15]
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Anti-Catholic “Logic” According to Bishop “Dr.” [?] James White [Facebook, 1-13-15]

Armstrong Fan Club #7: Fun Insults from James White [3-7-19; rev. 5-15-20]

Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White’s Last Mention of Me on His Blog (9-22-10) / Also, His Obsession with and Blasts Against Steve Ray [Facebook, 8-19-22]
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XV. ANALYSES OF CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM

White’s & Hays’ Anti-Catholic Analyses of My Catholic Conversion [Dec. 2004; added dialogue from 2-21-17; additional citations added on 2-24-18]

James White’s Lies Re the Return of Francis Beckwith to the Church [5-6-07]

James White’s Top Ten Questions for “Romanist” Converts Answered [9-4-07]

Flawed Conversion Blurb & James White’s Personal Insults [9-7-07]

James White’s Blast at Catholic Converts Contrary to My Initial Radical Conversion to Christ in 1977 [Facebook, 5-16-24]

XVI. MISCELLANEOUS

The Passion of the Christ: Review and Reflections (including a reply at the end to James White’s “review”) [2-29-04; rev. 4-10-17]

My Utter Condemnation of Anti-Protestantism and Unwarranted Attacks on James White (Also: The Many Compliments I’ve Paid White) [5-4-05, at Internet Archive]

Protestant Church Historians and Patristics Experts Schaff, Kelly, and Pelikan Get James White’s Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval [10-8-07, at Internet Archive]

Introduction to Dave Armstrong’s Book, Debating James White: Shocking Failures of the ‘Undefeatable’ Anti-Catholic Champion [10-28-13]

Why “Waste Time” Refuting Intransigent Anti-Catholic Polemicists Like James White? [Facebook, 3-10-17]

Anti-Catholic James White: Many Critiques Forthcoming [9-14-19]

Pope Francis vs. the Gospel? Outrageous & Absurd Lies! (Anti-Catholic Protestant James White and Catholic Reactionary Steve Skojec Echo Each Other’s Gigantic Whoppers) [5-26-20]

“Turretinfan” Calls a Statue of Jesus Christ an “Idol” (While His Buddy Bishop James White Praises the Statues of “Reformers” Calvin, Farel, Beza, and Knox) [6-8-10; rev. 6-24-20]

Catholic Obsession with James White or Vice Versa? (Reformed Protestant Anti-Catholic Apologists James White’s and James Swan’s Own Obsessions) [3-23-21]

The Good Old Days, When Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White Regularly Responded to Me (Mostly with Insults, but . . . ) [Facebook, 6-23-23]

The James White vs. Steve Hays Anti-Catholic Civil War [Facebook, 9-26-23]
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The James White St. Ignatius of Antioch Controversy (“Yes, Virginia, There Was a St. Ignatius of Antioch”) [3-6-25]

XVII. BAPTISM AND SACRAMENTALISM

Sacramentalism: James White Proves Augustine & Luther Aren’t Christians [original title: “Man-Centered” Sacramentalism: The Remarkable Incoherence of James White: How Can Martin Luther and St. Augustine Be Christians According to His Definition?] [11-26-03]

Baptismal Regeneration: Refutation of James White [8-27-21]

What Were the Baptized “Added” to? (Acts 2:41; vs. James White) (“Dr.” [???] White Rejects Catholic & Infant Baptism, Even Though the Church Fathers, Luther, & Calvin Do Not) [9-10-21]

Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White Blasphemously Trashes the Sacraments [Facebook, 1-5-22]

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