Catholic Apologetics

Tied to the book A Daily Defense

You can’t change an all knowing and omniprescent Gods mind through prayer

Prayer is not for giving information but instead to build a relationship with God

Why was the cross needed?

Brings focus to the topic of sacrafice, to bring focus on the serious nature of your sins, and to draw on the theme of Passover

Sola Scriptura

Sola Scriptura is not written in the bible and is thus self refuting, certain passages of scripture were written after others

Miracles are improbable, thus we should accept the greatest probability, thus we should not believe in miracles

Improbable things happen, miracles are just more improbable

Stone too heavy for God

The Christian definition of omnipotence is that God can do anything logically possible

Spiritual vs Religious

God desires more then mere spirituality and left us enough to find him

Why would a good God allow physical evils

While we lack full answers, we can see that some physical evils are helpful

Existence of Jesus

We have a high amount of references to Jesus, inclduing those outside of Chrsistian literature

The Church should not depend on tradition

Jeesus’s condemnation of the Pharisses handling of tradition was based on their handeling not their reliance on tradition, additionally there are passages that point to