I hope that all my readers had a great Easter weekend. I had a great Easter vigil celebrating the resurrection of our Lord. It brought me a lot of peace in this time of chaos. I also want to congratulate all of those who entered the Church. I’m honoured to have you as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Category Archives: Scripture
The Soteriology of Clement of Rome
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I’ve been reading a lot of the apostolic fathers recently as I’m doing research on the early ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. As you know, many Protestants looking into 19th century pseudo-scholarship have fallen into the trap of thinking that the Roman episcopate didn’t exist until the mid 2nd century. This includes Jerry Walls and James White. However, I noticed something else in Clement’s soteriology that I hadn’t caught before. Let me share it with you.
Musings on Valid Baptisms, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy
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Christianity received a large influx of converts in the fourth century. At the beginning of the fourth century the Roman Empire was majority pagan but by the end it was majority Christian. At the same time, the fourth century was going through the Arian crisis. Many of the pagan converts into Christianity initially came in as Arians and became Catholic when the crisis was over. Did they have to get re-baptized? Here is what Pope Siricius said in his letter to Himerius:
Helping my Protestant friends out
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St. Anthony of the Desert
When I first started this website five years ago, I had a more negative view of Protestants. I still do hold to a very negative view of the reformation as it was a state sponsored looting operation but there are Protestants out there that have a deep love for Jesus Christ and the sacred Scriptures. Now, I don’t believe in fake unity at the expense of truth, however in this day and age I think there is reason for us to team up in combating the constant evil that is taking over North and South America, Western Europe and other parts of the world. I want to offer some advice to Protestants to help them with their spiritual lives. I have five pieces of advice.
Surah 26 and Moses
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An ex-Muslim contacted me on social media regarding my last article and pointed something out to me. He said that Surah 26 had God talking to Moses and giving him the specific task of rescuing the children of Israel from Egypt.
The Burning Bush: Bible vs. Quran
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In the Bible in Exodus 3 and 4 we have the story of Moses and the burning bush. God appears in it before him and identifies himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He also tells Moses that he has seen the oppression of his people in Egypt and will deliver them into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Philippians 2 and the Muslims
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I’ve got a tactic for dialogue with Muslims. Muslims don’t think much of St. Paul. He’s the one who screwed up the teachings of Christ supposedly. We can work with that based on a lot of things that I’ve been writing about recently.
The Apostle James Forgot About Tawheed and Mutah
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We know that modern Islamic apologetics is stuck with blaming St. Paul for the rise of Christianity. The death, resurrection, deity, and other anti-Islamic Christian doctrines are present in the writings of the apostle Paul. The 12 apostles, John the Baptist and the blessed Virgin cannot be blamed for these doctrines because they’re described as Muslims in the Quran. Hence, Paul is the Christian fall guy.
Tovia Singer, Matthew, and Zechariah
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Above is a video by Jewish apologist Rabbi Tovia Singer. He points out a supposed error in the New Testament. Now, I don’t want to pick on Rabbi Singer but he’s not the only one who likes to bring this up. Muslims and liberal NT “scholars” like to point this out.
Bart Ehrman Refuted: The Gospels Aren’t Anonymous
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P4 with the title Gospel of Matthew on it
Many liberal scholars like to claim that the four Gospels of the New Testament are anonymous; that the names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written much later and by different people. Bart Ehrman likes to beat this drum and Muslims seem to uncritically accept these conclusions.