Tag: Christianity

  • America: From Christian to Post-Christian

    America was once a Christian nation. For many years America honored God, and missionary endeavors were undertaken. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the vast majority of Baptist churches were Reformed Baptists. Presbyterian churches also abounded. But if we look at some of the quotes of America’s Founding Fathers, if we look at decrees…

  • Debating Christian Truth: Wes Huff vs. Billy Carson

    There was an online discussion about the veracity of Christianity, it took place approximately 4 weeks ago, that went viral. The debate was between a Christian historian and apologist, Wes Huff, and Billy Carson, according to wikia he is an “entrepreneur, author, music artist, TV host, producer, actor, director, and expert in Ancient Civilizations.” Wes…

  • Are Roman Catholic Beliefs Biblical

    The following are various beliefs of Roman Catholicism, contrasted with the teachings of Scripture.

  • Faith Alone: The Cornerstone of The Reformation

    Justification by faith alone (Sola Fide) is the lynchpin of the Protestant Reformation. It will stand or fall on the basis of this doctrine. The essence of Sola Fide is the teaching that we are not saved by the merits of any of our good works, but rather we are saved on the merits of…

  • The Sufficiency of Scripture

    Both Catholics and Orthodox deny the perspicuity and sufficiency of Scripture alone. Scripture is divinely inspired, the New Testament authors wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. We Reformed affirm Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone). This ensures the true gospel is not obscured. We recognize the perspicuity and total sufficiency of Scripture. Scripture is the…

  • One Mediator or Many

    In sacramental churches, such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox, people pray to God the Father through Jesus (as Christ taught us), but they have other mediators whom they pray to, or through, such as Jesus’ mother Mary and certain “saints” (believers in Christ whom their church declared to have led a very holy life,…

  • Dr. Greg Bahnsen’s Seminary Level Lectures on Presuppositional Apologetics

    The late Dr. Greg Bahnsen was a student of the father of Presuppositional Apologetics, Dr. Cornelius Van Til. Bahnsen has impacted my own apologetics methodology the most than any other apologist. This is the description of the course on Bahnsen Institute’s page: Dr. Bahnsen delivered this seminary-level course in Brooklyn, NY in 1995, the 100th…

  • Always Reforming

    Sadly, my experience with the Reformed is that most of them exist in a bubble, and dare not think outside their confessional strictures. Like myself, a truly Reformed person affirms the normative principle of worship, not the overly restrictive regulative principle. Reformed have made no progress in eschatology since the 1600s. Biblical theology is premillennial…

  • Salvation: Monergism vs Synergism

    The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are semi-Pelagian. Salvation in these churches is synergistic—man cooperating with God. Man is saved, in part, through his own efforts. Man, not God, chooses the time of his salvation. Roman Catholics and Orthodox are Arminian in soteriology. They exalt man’s so-called “free will”, and believe it is essential…

  • Paradise Lost?

    Roman Catholicism teaches that there are two types of sin: venial sins which don’t merit the loss of salvation, and mortal sins which merit the loss of salvation. This distinction is not biblical. The result of this teaching is that a typical Roman Catholic will vacillate between being saved and damned hundreds, or even thousands…