Major Concerns About Christian Music
In this video, Alisa Childers addresses concerns over Christian music:
Richard Moore on the Dangers of Lectio Divina
Wikipedia defines Lectio Divina as “a traditional monastic practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God’s word. In the view of one commentator, it does not treat Scrip…
Defense of Mark 1:1 having “Son of God”
Originally written in November of 2011 at Beggar’s All. Paul Williams, a British convert to Islam, for years has critiqued the Bible and the Christian faith. A lot of his blog posts are no longer available, as he has changed … Continue reading
The Balance of Apologetics and Agape
Reaching Muslims – involves a balance of evangelism and apologetics and hospitality. Over the years, I have tried to understand the “Presuppositional Method of Apologetics”. (John Frame, Greg Bahnsen, Cornelius Van Til, Scott Oliphant) There is a chapter on this … Continue reading
Ken Ham on the Days of Creation
There has been some debate over the years whether or not the days of creation in Genesis means an actual 24-hour day or millions of years. Young earth creationists, such as myself, believes the days of creation were an actual 24-hour day whereas old cr…
James White vs. Trent Horn
Recently, they had 2 debates: On Sola Scriptura and on Purgatory I will be commenting more on these later, as time allows. Several points that stood out in the Sola Scriptura debate. 1. Trent did not emphasize his previous emphasis … Continue reading
Irenaeus did not teach the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Irenæus (wrote around 180-202 AD) says Jesus opened Mary’s womb (aperians vulvam, Against Heresies 4:33:11), a “denial of virginity in partu” (during birth) – Also, Against Heresies 3:21:10 and 3:22:4 the way he compares to creation’s ground (as yet, virgin … Continue reading
Response to Joshua Charles on Protestantism, Baptism, and Roman Catholicism
Joshua Charles thinks that disagreements over baptism, the Lord’s supper, and church government are a problem for Protestants. Also, everyone cannot be a scholar. That is true, but that seems to be a smoke-screen for “just trust us” (the Roman … Continue reading
The 6 minute case for Sola Scriptura
The 6 minute Case for Sola Scriptura – that Scripture alone is the only infallible rule of faith and practice – that Scripture is the final court of appeals, above traditions, councils, creeds, bishops and Popes in church history. Note: … Continue reading
Against ex opere operato power of water baptism
“Even Simon Magus once came to the Laver: he was baptized, but was not enlightened; and though he dipped his body in water, he enlightened not his heart with the Spirit: his body went down and came up, but his … Continue reading
Sam Shamoun and William Albrecht proved wrong again
Sam Shamoun and William Albrecht are caught mis-understanding the argument that Dr. James White was making about Jerome’s reason and argumentation for the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. They accuse Dr. White of lying, thereby slandering him. All Dr. White was saying was … Continue reading
Why do Protestants Convert to Roman Catholicism?
See the book: You can find it at various sellers, including Amazon. This book is very insightful. Especially the beginning that gives more background on John Henry Newman. His infamous statement and claim: ”To be deep in history is to cease to be … Continue reading
Sola Scriptura and the Church Fathers
Anthony Rogers and Tony Costa discuss the Reformation principle of Sola Scriptura and evidence from the early church fathers on the self-attesting / self-authenticating quality of the Scriptures. The quotes from John Calvin and John Owen are also great and foundational … Continue reading
Anthony Rogers You Tube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Ousias1 Great material there at Anthony Roger’s You Tube Channel. Anthony defends the Scriptures, the Reformation, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, answers apologetic issues against Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Unitarianism and other issues. I wish I had time to listen to … Continue reading
Augustine teaches Sola Scriptura by principle
Augustine, On Baptism Against the Donatists – Book 2, Chapter 3, 4 . . . . But who can fail to be aware that the sacred canon of Scripture, both of the Old and New Testament, is confined within its … Continue reading
Study of Matthew 16:18 reposted.
A Study of Matthew 16:18 – Peter and the Rock – Scripture & church history
Book Review: Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield
The Bible calls Satan the father of lies (John 8:44). Many in the world have bought into his lies and it shows in many ways. All you have to do is turn on the TV or look into social media to see proof of that.Sadly, many of those lies have crept into t…
Refuting Trent Horn’s “rebuttal” of “American Gospel”
Trent Horn attempted to rebut the American Gospel presentation of Roman Catholic system of salvation, but he did not really refute anything much. There was one word that they used about purgatory – that we will talk about later in … Continue reading
Rod Bennett’s recent claim of “everyone said the same thing” (doctrinal unity until 1054)
I enjoyed listening to this because I really do miss Rod Bennett as a friend when we were Baptists together in our local church, and those days of great discussions and friendship over good classical movies with a meaningful message … Continue reading
On the OT Apocrypha
Answer to Roman Catholics who claim the OT Apocrypha books are “canonical”. They call them “Deutero-canonicals” The canon already existed by 96 AD, because the 27 books of the NT were “God-breathed” as soon as written. The discernment process is … Continue reading
A Study of Matthew 16:18 – Peter and the Rock – Scripture & church history
Study of Matthew 16:18 – Peter and the Rock
A Panel Discussion on Why Christian "Celebrities" are Walking Away from the Faith
Over the past few years, many the Contemporary Christian Music world are walking away from the faith. Many Christians are wondering why this is happening. In this panel discussion, we have J. Warner Wallace, author of Cold-Case Christianity, John Coope…
Why the Bodily Assumption is wrong, unBiblical, and not early in Church History.
Gavin Ortlund does an excellent job of showing how the dogma of the Bodily Assumption of Mary is wrong and not early in church history, and, in 1950, for the Pope to make it a dogma on pain of anathema … Continue reading
Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation …
Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation …
Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation is below.
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Tradition
Tradition – Originally written at Beggar’s All Reformation and Apologetics in 2016. μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων “And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men” Mark 7:7 ἀφέντες τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ … Continue reading
Tradition in 2 Thessalonians 2:15
This is from an online written debate on Oral Tradition at Green Bagins, from 2010. Comment # 26 by David T. King, who has done lots of work in apologetics vs. Roman Catholicism. (and Co-Author with William Webster, of the … Continue reading
How Islam conquered many churches
Another well done video about how Turkey became Muslim. Originally the land what is known as Turkey today was mostly Greek – Part of the Byzantine Christian Empire. It was not “Turkey” in NT days nor in church history until … Continue reading
The Canon issue and the Icons issue vs. Roman Catholicism
Dr. Gavin Ortlund is right; and he provides evidence and reasoned argumentation on his position on the Canon of the OT (Apocrypha books, so called “Deutero-canonical”) vs. the Roman Catholic position and against the argumentations of Nicea 2 (787 AD) … Continue reading