If Mary is sinless, why does she need a Savior? (Luke 1:47)
Type: Marian
Reframe: Modes of Salvation (rescue after, preservation before) Both magnify Christ, preservation shows power even more fully.
Dichotomy: Which is the greater Savior — pulls us out after we fall, saves so perfectly He prevents the fall itself?
Romans 3:23 says all have sinned. Mary can’t be an exception.
Type: Marian
Reframe: All allows exceptions (Jesus, infants). Mary’s exception magnifies or diminishes Christ?
Dichotomy: Either “all” literally includes Jesus (which is absurd) or exceptions are possible. If exceptions exist, then Mary’s exception fits biblical precedent.
The Assumption of Mary isn’t in the Bible — Catholics made it up.
Type: Marian
Reframe: Whether it’s consistent with biblical patterns (e.g. Enoch, Elijah).
Dichotomy: Either you deny God ever assumed anyone (contradicting Scripture), or you admit He can — and then the Assumption of Mary is possible within His pattern of salvation history.
WEAK - Not denying he can, denying presence in scripture like Elijah Enoch
The Eucharist is just symbolic. Jesus was speaking metaphorically in John 6.
Type: Eucharist
Reframe: Agree on use of metaphors. But - whether He clarified this teaching when people left Him. In John 6 doubles down.
Dichotomy: Either Jesus let His disciples walk away over a “misunderstanding,” or He meant what He said — that His flesh is true food and His blood true drink.
Catholics add man-made traditions. The Bible alone is the rule of faith.
Type: Scripture & Tradition
Reframe: Not whether Scripture is inspired — all Christians agree. Whether Scripture teaches ‘Scripture alone.’ It doesn’t.
Dichotomy: Either you accept essentials like the Trinity and canon through tradition, or you throw them out too. Which is consistent?
Current Traditions:
Biblical Canon (Books)
Trinitarianism
Christmas on Dec 25th
*Sola scriptura, why do you rely on communal interpretation and tradition?
The Mass re-sacrifices Jesus. Hebrews 10:10-14 says He died once for all.
Type: Eucharist
Reframe: Mass not repetition; re-presentation. Once-for-all sacrifice made present. Is Calvary locked in history or transcends time?
Dichotomy: If Christ’s sacrifice is eternal, the Mass unites us to it. If it’s stuck in AD 33, then no one after the apostles has access to the Cross.
Eating flesh and blood is grotesque — Catholics sound like cannibals/pagan rituals.
Type: Eucharist
Reframe: Not crude flesh, Christ’s glorified body. Made present sacramentally.
Can God transform ordinary matter for divine purposes?
Dichotomy: Either God’s power is limited to metaphors, or His power truly transforms bread and wine into the life of Christ. Which vision honors His omnipotence more?
The Pope just makes up doctrines. Where’s that in Scripture?
Type: Tradition vs. Scripture
Reframe: Did Christ give the Church teaching authority (Matt 16:18)?
Dichotomy: Either Christ left no authority (and chaos reigns), or He entrusted it to someone. If not the Church, then who?
Praying to Mary and the saints, using statues and rosaries — that’s idolatry.”
Type: Scripture vs. Tradition
Reframe: Worship is for God alone (latria). The question is whether praying to/honoring saints = worship.
Dichotomy: Either honoring saints = idolatry (then honoring Paul in Scripture is too), or there’s a biblical distinction between reverence and worship.
Jesus was a Jew — He never founded Catholicism. Your Church came centuries later.
Type: Non-Christian
Reframe: Question - did Jesus establish a Church Authority here on earth?
Dichotomy: Either the Church is a later corruption (making Christ’s promise to build His Church false), or it is the continuation of what He began.
Nobody in the Bible was Catholic. Early Christians were simple followers, not part of a hierarchy with popes and priests.
Type: Scripture vs. Tradition
Reframe: The question isn’t labels but continuity. The first Christians had bishops, sacraments, liturgy — the seeds of Catholicism.
Dichotomy: Either the early Church evolved into Catholicism (showing continuity), or it collapsed completely (denying Christ’s promise in Matt 28:20).
Jesus never said to worship Mary, pray to saints, or use rosaries. These are pagan borrowings.
Type: Marian / Tradition
Reframe: Do they contradict biblical truths?
Dichotomy: Either legitimate development (like the canon of Scripture) is allowed, or nothing beyond the NT is valid — including Protestant practices.
Jesus had siblings (Mark 6:3). The Bible says it plainly — so Mary wasn’t a perpetual virgin.
Type: Marian / Non-Christian
Reframe: The issue is language. ‘Brothers’ in ancient Hebrew/Aramaic referred to kin, not only blood siblings.
Dichotomy: Either Scripture contradicts itself (Mary both virgin and not), or ‘brothers’ means relatives. Which preserves Scripture’s unity?
The Catholic Church changed the Bible, added books, and suppressed others.
Type: Scripture
Reframe: Yes. It has a duty to preserve the canon. The Catholic Church discerned what was inspired by authority of Christ.
Dichotomy: Either you trust the Church’s discernment (and have a Bible), or you reject it — and lose the canon altogether.
The Catholic Church burned heretics, silenced scientists, and opposed truth.
Type: Church Corruption
Reframe: The issue isn’t whether Catholics sinned but whether sin invalidates truth.
Dichotomy: Either past sins discredit all religion, or truth can be carried even through flawed men.
How can you claim the Pope speaks for God? That’s just one man.
Type: Scripture vs. Tradition
Reframe: The issue isn’t one man’s voice but Christ’s promise to guide His Church.
Dichotomy: Either Christ left no visible authority (and confusion reigns), or He ensured a shepherd to guard unity.
You say God is three in one, but that’s contradictory nonsense.
A: Type: Non-Christian
Reframe: The issue isn’t contradiction but mystery — God’s nature transcends simple categories.
Dichotomy: Either God is only what human reason can fully grasp (limiting Him), or He surpasses us (which fits a divine being).
If God is loving, why is there suffering, war, and abuse?
Type: Non-Christian
Reframe: The issue isn’t whether suffering exists but what it means. For Christians, suffering can be redemptive.
Reframe: If there is evil, it proves the existence of the devil. Which proves existence of God.
Dichotomy: Either suffering is meaningless (atheism), or suffering can be transformed with purpose (Christianity).
Dichotomy: Imagine you were flipped worshipping devil asking “if he’s real, what’s all this good in the world?”
The Church oppresses women by forbidding female priests and controlling reproduction.
Type: Moral / Cultural
Reframe: The issue isn’t dignity but role — Catholicism upholds equal dignity with distinct vocations.
Dichotomy: Either equality requires sameness (erasing difference), or equality can coexist with distinct callings.
Catholic morality on sex and marriage is repressive.”
Type: Moral / Cultural
Reframe: The issue isn’t repression but whether freedom is license or fulfillment.
Dichotomy: Either freedom means doing whatever we want (which enslaves us), or freedom means living as we are designed (which fulfills us).
Confession: Why go to a priest? Can’t you go directly to God?
Reframe: Rooted in what Jesus told his Apostles (sins you forgive are forgiven them - John 20:21-23).
Priest = instrument. Leviticus 5.
Dichotomy: You can confess sins silently if that’s your way. Catholics choose Christ’s way when he commissioned his apostles.
