Islam vs. Baptism

In November of last year I was honoured to be the best man at my former roommates’ wedding.  Earlier this month, he and his wife welcomed their first child into this world.  On Saturday the child was welcomed into God’s family through the sacrament of baptism.  Baptism saves according to St. Peter and this child was saved when he was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.  I was the godfather.

Muslim Apologists, Q, and the New Testament

Here is a trend that I’ve noticed among Muslim apologists.  They say that the New Testament is corrupted because it has late manuscripts, many variants, and other problems.  Most can’t back this statement up.  All Muslim apologists that I know who have gone the textual criticism route have abandoned it as they’ve realized it’s a dead end.  Well, everyone except the infamous Ijaz Ahmad who was recently exposed for doxxing and using racial slurs against a Christian apologist.  It should be noted that Ahmad has come out with material in regards to the crucifixion of Christ.  I will be getting to that in my upcoming posts. 

Muslims have to side with Paul over James in Acts 21

As many of you know, I was privileged to be on a recent episode of Reason and Theology.  What I discussed and refuted was the argument that the Church of Rome did not have a monarchial bishop until the mid-second century.  I of course shredded the argument.  In the weeks leading up to this episode I had written several articles refuting this dumb theory.  I presented them on the show.

Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Terminology

I recently read The Triads by Gregory Palamas.  Gregory Palamas is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church who helped end a theological civil war in 14th century Byzantium.  I sat down on Saturday and read the whole thing in the evening.  It’s not that long but I was told by a fellow Catholic apologist that my version of the Triads was abridged.

King Philip IV of France was the founder of Protestantism

When people talk about the reformation in the 16th century they’re eager to find photo-Protestants who lived in centuries prior who had similar ideas.  The names that usually come up are Huss, Wycliffe, and Gottschalk.  There have been attempts to make St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas into proto-Protestants but anyone familiar with their theology can debunk these claims in a second.  So who was the true proto-Protestant?

I was on Reason and Theology

On Saturday I made an appearance on the show Reason and Theology.  They invited me on to talk about the early Roman episcopate.  As some of you may know, there is a revisionist theory that there was no early monarchial bishop at the Church of Rome.  I have written several articles in the last six weeks in support of this position.  This was in preparation for the interview.

Babylon is Rome in 1 Peter 5

There are those that try to deny that St. Peter was in Rome.  They often point out that in St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, dozens of names are mentioned but Peter isn’t.  Now, the entire tradition of the Church has St. Peter in Rome.  Is this a contradiction?  Only if you want it to be.  You can simply say that St. Peter wasn’t in the city of Rome when this was written.

The Soteriology of Clement of Rome

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.

The Ballad of Anthony Buzzard….and Agency

I remember the first time that I heard Anthony Buzzard talk about Unitarianism.  I won’t lie, I was impressed.  He seemed like a worthy opponent.  If anyone was going to refute the Trinity, it wasn’t the JWs, it was him.  Now I listen to him and I shake my head at how bad his arguments are.  Even his old arguments that seemed powerful really don’t carry that much weight.