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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 20,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=447&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updated page on Justification</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baptism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calvin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I got time to update my page on Justification. I added more items to compare between Catholic and Reformer teaching on Justification and more references. You can access it at the top page or through clicking this link: Justification &#8211; Contrasting Catholic and Protestant&#8217; Position Feedback/correction/comments are welcome! Filed under: Baptism, Calvin, Justification, Luther, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=443&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Eucharist &#8211; eating the flesh of Christ and drinking His blood</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/the-eucharist-eating-the-flesh-of-christ-and-drinking-his-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eucharist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic teaching on Eucharist is certainly one of the toughest for non-Catholics to understand.  Not surprisingly it is also one of the mostly attacked and caricatured.  The following clauses of the Catechism of the Catholic Church summarize the teachings of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist (underlined emphasis is added): At the Last Supper, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=353&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Jude citation from 1 Enoch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=334&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. R.C. Sproul on double predestination</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/dr-r-c-sproul-on-double-predestination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Monergism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. R.C. Sproul is Reformed scholar and theologian, founder (and president) of Ligonier Ministries and president of Ligonier Academy.  The following is what he wrote (in italic, underlined emphasis is mine) on double predestination, which is taken from: http://www.the-highway.com/DoublePredestination_Sproul.html In the article Dr. Sproul describes what he calls as distortion of double predestination: The distortion of double predestination [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=329&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merits in Catholicism</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/merits-in-catholicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augustine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic teaching on merit is commonly misunderstood by non-Catholics.  Many thinks that Catholics believe we must do good works to merit salvation or eternal life, just like a worker must work to merit his/her wages.  Catholic teaching that we can merit eternal life and increase of grace [1] is definitely scandalous to Protestants and “Bible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=321&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How reliable is William Webster’s study on Canon of Old Testament?</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/how-reliable-william-webster%e2%80%99-study-on-canon-of-old-testament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Old Testament]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Webster, a former Catholic, is businessman and director of Christian Resources Inc., a book and tape ministry devoted to teaching and evangelism (source: Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestants analyze what divides and unites us, Moody Press, page 11).  He wrote a number of books dealing with Roman Catholicism, among which is The Church of Rome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=304&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Augustine consider apocryphal books to be non authoritative in defining doctrine?</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/did-augustine-consider-apocryphal-books-to-be-non-authoritative-in-defining-doctrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Webster, former Catholic converted to Calvinism, wrote that Augustine (354 to 430 AD), bishop of Hippo, believed that the Church held the apocrypha to be canonical in the broad sense that these writings provided a good example and an inspiration to perseverance in the faith (Webster: The Church of Rome at the Bar of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=298&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a simple analogy to explain the difference among monergism, synergism, semi-pelagianism and pelagianism</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/a-simple-analogy-to-explain-the-difference-among-monergism-synergism-semi-pelagianism-and-pelagianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the analogy we have three persons, let’s call them John, Jim and Theo.  John and Jim represent all men – John represent those will go to heaven, which in this analogy is represented by going to the concert, of which a ticket, representing salvation, is required.  Jim represents those who do not go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=293&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Irenænus believe in sola scriptura and reject apocrypha?</title>
		<link>http://vivacatholic.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/did-iren%c3%a6nus-believe-in-sola-scriptura-and-reject-apocrypha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is to reply the allegations made by Mike in his recent comment that Irenænus, bishop of Lyon in 2nd century AD did not hold many Catholic positions.  You can read his comments here. Irenænus works (translated into English) are available online at www.ccel.org as part of Anti Nicene Fathers.  Mike wrote that Irenænus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivacatholic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1291901&amp;post=287&amp;subd=vivacatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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