Tag: Christianity

  • Determining Doctrine

    During the time of the Apostles, when Scripture was being written, the Apostle Paul warned us (the Church) against error creeping in if we weren’t vigilant. Sadly even within the New Testament period, heresy was being introduced into the visible Church. Many new heresies arose during the 3rd to 5th centuries, particularly false teachings about…

  • From Darkness to Life: Roman Catholicism in My Family

    Both sides of my extended family have been Roman Catholic for at least hundreds of years. My parents were raised Roman Catholic. My Daddy was an altar boy in the Latin Mass (before Vatican 2). Through God’s mercy and sovereign grace, my parents are Elect. In college they repented of their sins, and believed the…

  • Towards A Biblical Society: Patriarchy Forever

    For as long as man has existed, society has been structured around patriarchy. Thus patriarchy goes back to Adam and Eve. Sadly after nearly 6,000 years of being the way societies were ordered, in the past 60 years, Western societies have drifted away from patriarchy. The mere term has become a profanity to the woke…

  • Roman Catholics Conflate Justification With Sanctification

    LET’S CLARIFY MERITIVE AND SALVING A response to Catholics who say they are saved by faith and that good works are not salvific and meritorious. Your denomination teaches that the practice of good works is necessary for salvation and that the Christian under the influence of grace deserves for himself and others the graces to…

  • The Lord’s Supper: The Real Presence of Christ

    I used to believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper (communion). I now believe the Lord is present, but not in a physical way, rather it is spiritual. Communion is spiritual food to nourish our souls. I held to the Roman Catholic view that during consecration the bread and wine become…

  • Mary Considered

    In Roman Catholic theology, Mary has an elevated status; she is inextricably integrated into the economy of salvation. It is Mary who, according to Roman Catholic theology, is the Mediatrix of All Graces. She dispenses grace to sinners from the Treasury of Merit. The problem is that this Mariology is unbiblical. There is no such…

  • The Biblical Gospel: Grounded in Justification

    The very essence of the gospel, of Jesus Christ, is justification by faith alone. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone. None of our good works are meritorious. We are totally undeserving of salvation. God did not condition our faith on us accepting Christ in our future (God exists outside of time). No.…

  • A Tale of Authorities

    When defining doctrine, we Reformed affirm Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) as our highest authority. It restricts us from tainting our interpretation of Scripture by adding extraneous sources of doctrine. Roman Catholics affirm Sola Ecclesia (Church Alone) contains the dual authorities of tradition and the magisterium (teaching authority). Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium are all equal…

  • America: Once a Bastion of the Reformed – Now Apostate

    In 1793, 956 out of 1,032 baptist churches in America were calvinistic. This equates to 93%. A 2012 Lifeway poll of SBC pastors found that of 1,066 SBC pastors, 30% said their churches were calvinistic. One of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a…

  • Eastern Orthodoxy and Scripture

    Unlike us Reformed Protestants, the Eastern Orthodox (EO) place their phronema (collective consensus over time), which is merely the fallible traditions of men, to a place of preeminence. This is an extremely dangerous position to be in. The EO do not have the corrective force of Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) to guide and safeguard their…