Michael Horton interviews a mushy convert to Roman Catholicism

Listen to this interview:

http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2011/10/31/whi-1073-should-we-reform-or-abandon-american-protestantism/

Michael Horton does an OK job. But this is how you answer somebody like Christian Smith:

"Doctrine is armor of God. It is practical. It effects you internally. It makes you God-centered or man-centered. It makes you fear God or fear man. I want real doctrine. I.e. I want real armor. Real armor of God. Your doctrine is cardboard. Evil is real. The Kingdom of Satan is real. Hell is real. I want - I need - the armor of God, pure and whole. And words that deliver doctrine, that you are happy to keep in a mush, define real doctrine. You have to see it, *accept it*, believe it. Again, *it effects your inner state.* When I see, and accept, and believe the truth of justification by faith alone (no mush of faith plus works, committee language, compromise, everybody can be happy with something in the middle) then I have pure doctrine that effects me internally, and I have real armor that can confront any accuser including Satan himself, because I confront him solely with the righteousness of Christ. You don't have that. You are still in darkness and in bondage to the Kingdom of Satan. You're likely to start begging Satan to not harm you. Pleading with Satan that you have done good works. Internally, your state is one of a tame slave in the Devil's Kingdom. You need to engage the word of God outside any context of, in your case, academia. You need to engage it humbly, simply, complete, in a truly dedicated manner. Regeneration is effected, when it is effected, by the word and the Spirit. At that point you won't care what man thinks about you. You won't fear man. You will fear God alone. And you will desire real biblical doctrine. Real armor. The real thing."