Scriptural Cheat Sheet for Catholic Apologetics

Scriptural Cheat Sheet for Catholic Apologetics
From Ave Maria Radio

Against Sola Fide/Need for Good Works

    Jas 2:14-26 ... what good is faith without works'.'

    Heb 10:26 ... must avoid sin.

    Jas 5:20 ... "earning" forgiveness.

Lk 6:46; Mt 7:21; Mt 19:16-21; Jn 5:29 ... must do the will of God.

    1 Cor 9:27 .. "buffet my body ..."

Phil 2:12; 2 Cor 5:10; Rom 2:6-10,13,3:31; Mt 25:32-46:

    Gal 6:6-10; Rev 20:12 ... works have merit.

    1 Jn 2:3-4; 1 Jn 3:24: 1 Jn 5:3 ... keep commandments.

 

Against Sola Scriptura / Need for Tradition

Jn 21:25 ... not everything is in the Bible.

2 Thes 2:15; 2 Tim 2:2: 1 Cor 11:2; 1 Thes 2:13 ... Paul speaks

    of oral tradition.

Acts 2:42 ... early Christians followed apostolic tradition.

2 Pet 3:16 ... Bible hard to understand, get distorted.

2 Jn 1:12;3 Jn 1:13-14 ... more oral tradition.

2 Pet 1:20-21 ... against personal interpretation.

Acts 8:31; Heb 5:12 ... guidance needed to interpret scriptures.

 

Baptism of Infants

Acts 2:38-39: Acts 16:15, 16:33, 18:8; 1 Cor 1:16 ... suggests

    baptism of all, including children.

Jn 3:5; Rom 6:4 ... necessity of baptism.

Col 2:11-12 ... circumcision (normally performed on infants c.f.

    Gen 17:12) replaced by baptism.

 

 "Brothers" of Jesus

 Mary wife of Cleophas and "sister" of the Virgin Mary (Jn 19:25)

    is the mother of James and Joset (Mk 15:47; Mt 27:56) who arc

    called the "brothers ol'Jesus" (Mk 6:3).

Acts 1:12-15 ... apostles, Mary. "some women" and Jesus'

    "brothers" number about 120. That is a lot of "brothers."

Gen 14:14 ... Lot, Abraham's nephew (Gen 11:26-28), described as

    Abraham's brother (KJV).

Gen 29:15 ... Laban, Jacob's uncle, calls Jacob his "brother"

    (KJV).

John 19:26-27 ... Jesus gives care of Mary to John, not one of his

    "brothers."

 2 Sam 6:23. Gen 8:7, Dt 34:6 ..."until."

Church and Authority

Acts 2:42 ... doctrine, community, sacred rite (bread).

Eph 5:25-26 ... Christ loved the Church.

1 Tim 3:15 ... church is pillar/foundation of truth.

Mt 16:18; 20:20 ... Christ protects Church.

Heb 13:17 ...obey.

Mt 18:17-18 ... church as final authority.

Mt 23:2 ... Pharisees succeeded Moses (seat of Moses).

1 Cor 5:5; 1 Tim 1:20 ... excommunication.

 

Deuterocanonicals / Greek OT Canon

Dcuterocanonicals used in NT: 2 Mc 6:18-7:42 ... Heb 11:35;

    Wisdom 3:5-6 ... 1 Pet 1:6-7; Wisdom 13:1-9 ... Rom 1:18-32

Septuagint (Gk, w/Dcutcrocanonicals) version ofOT quoted in NT,

    noticably different from Hebrew version: Is 7:14 ... Mt 1:23; Is

    40:3 ... Mt 3:3; Joel 2:30-31 ... Acts 2:19-29; Ps 95:7-9 ... Heb

    3:7-9 ... etc.

 

Eucharist

Mt 26:26-27; Mk 14:22,24; Lk 22:19-20; 1 Cor 10:24-25 ... this is

    my body ... this is my blood.

 1 Cor 11:26-30 ... sinning against the body and blood.

Jn 6:32-58 ... long discourse on Eucharist.

Gen 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17 ... Melchizedek.

Acts 2:42 ... breaking of bread.

Ps 27:l-2; Is 9:18-20; Is 49:26; Micah 3:3; Rev 17:6,16...

    symbolic interpretation ofJn 6 inappropriate.

 

Forgiveness of Sins

Jn 20:22-23 ... "if you forgive ... they are forgiven."

 Mt 18:18 ... binding on earth and heaven.

2 Cor 5:18 ... ministry of reconciliation.

Jas 5:14-16 ... forgiveness of sins, anointing of the sick, confession.

 

Justification

 1 Jn 1:7, 2 Pet 1:9 ... purified from sins.

Jn 1:29, Heb 9:26-28 ... takes away sin.

Ps 50:3, Ps 102:12, Is 43:25 ... blot out, clear away sin.

Rom 2:13, Rom 3:20... future justification.

Heb 11:8...Gen 12:1-4; Rom 4:2-3...Gen 15:6; Jas 2:21-23...

    Gen 22:1-18 ...justifications of Abraham.

2 Pet 1:4 ... become partakers of the divine nature.

 

Mary

 Gen 5:24; Heb 11:5; 2 Kings 2:1-13 ... Enoch and Elijah taken

    to heaven.

 Lk 1:28 ... annunciation.

 Lk 1:42-48 ... blessed are you among women.

 2 Tim 4:8, Jas 1:12, 1 Pet 5:4, Rev 2:10 ... coronation awaits saints.

 Jn 2:1-5 ... Mary's intercession.

 

Papacy/Infallibility

Mt 10:l-4; Mk 3:16-19; Lk 6:14-16; Acts 1:13; Lk 9:32 ...

    Peter always mentioned first, as foremost apostle.

Mt 18:21; Mk 8:29; Lk 12:41; Jn 6:69 ... Peter speaks for

    the apostles.

Acts 2:14-40 ... Pentecost: Peter who first preached.

Acts 3:6-7 ... Peter worked lirst healing.

Acts 10:46-48 ... Gentiles to be baptized revealed to Peter.

Jn 1:42 ... Simon is Cephas (Aramaic: Kepha for rock).

Mt 16:18-19 ... "on this Rock ... keys ... bind ... loose"

Is 22:22; Rev 1:18 ... keys as symbol of authority.

Jn 21:17 ... "feed my sheep"

Lk 22:31-32 ... "Simon ... strengthen your brethren".

Lk 10:1-2, 16; Jn 13:20; 2 Cor 5:20; Gal 4:14; Acts 5:1-5 ...

    "vicars" (substitutes) of Christ.

Mk 6:20;Lk 1:70,2:23; Rom 12:1: Act 3:21. 1 Cor 7:14: Eph 3:5;

    Col 1:22 ... humans can be holy ("call no one holy").

 

Priesthood and Worship

Acts 1:15-26; 2 Tim 2:2; Tit 1:5 ...unbroken succession.

Acts 15:6,23; 1 Tim 4:14, 5:22; 1 Tim 5:17; Jas 5:13-15 .;.

    presbyters/elders (priests) were ordained, preached and taught

    the flock, administered sacraments.

Lk 16:24; Rom 4; 1 Cor 4:14-15; Acts 7:2; 1 Thes 2:11;

    1 Jn 2:13-14 ... "call no one father"".'

 1 Cor 7:7-9 ... Paul unmarried.

Mt 19:12; 1 Cor 7:32,33 ...celibacy.

Gen 14:18;Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17... Melchizedek.

Rev 4:8 ... "vain repetition"?

 1 Kg 8:54; 2 Chr 6:13; Ezra 9:5; Mt 17:14; Lk 5:8 ... kneeling.

Rev 8:3-4 ... incense.

 1 Cor 12 ... different roles of members ofbody.

 

Purgatory

Lk 12:59; 1 Cor3:15; 1 Pet 1:7; Mt 5:25-26 ... temporary agony

Heb 12:6-11 ... God's painful discipline.

Mt 12:32 ... no forgiveness ... nor in the age to come.

 1 Pet 3:19 ... purgatory (limbo?).

Rev 21:27 ... nothing unclean shall enter heaven.

Heb 12:23 ... souls in heaven are perfect.

Col 1:24; 2 Sam 12:14 ... "extra" suffering.

2 Mac 12:43-16 ... sacrifice for the dead.

2 Tim 1:15-18 ... prayer for Onesiphorus for "that Day."

1 Jn 5:14-17 ... mortal/venial sins

 

Saints

Mk 12:26-27 ... "not God of the dead, but of the living."

Jn 15:1-8 ... vine and its branches.

1 Cor 12:25-27; Rom 12:4-5 ... body of Christ.

Eph 6:18; Rom 15:30; Col 4:3; 1 Thes 1:11 ... intercessory prayer.

Jos 5:14; Dan 8:17; Tob 12:16 ... veneration of angels united

    with God (Mt 18:10).

1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2 ... saints also united with God.

Lk 20-34-38 ... those wlio died are like angels.

2 Mc 15:11-16 ... deceased Onias and Jeremiah interceded

    for Jews.

Rev 8:3-4; Jer 15:1 ... saints' intercession.

 

Salvation (once and for all?)

 1 Cor 9:27 ... after preaching ... I myself disqualified.

 1 Cor 10:12 ... thinks that he stands ... lest he fall.

Phil 2:12 ... work out salvation with fear and trembling.

Heb 4:1 ... fear of failing to reach salvation.

 1 Jn 5:16,17 ... some sins arc mortal, some not.

Rom 11:21,22 ... spare branches, continue or be cut off.

 

Statues, Images and Relics

Ex 25:18-22, 26:1,31; Num 21:8-9... God commands images

    made.

 1 Kings 6:23-29, 35, 7:29 ... Solomon's temple: statues and

    images.

Acts 19:11,12... Paul's handkerchiefs and aprons.

2 Kg 13:20-21 ... Elisha's bones.

Acts 5:15-16 ... Peter's shadow.

Mt 9:20-22 ... Jesus' garment cures woman.