Tag: faith

  • Marian Beliefs: Biblical or Unbiblical

    Catholics and Orthodox have Marian theologies which are unbiblical. They give Mary reverence, hyper-veneration, create icons, paintings, sculptures, and processionals for her. These things are for the Triune God alone. Several Doctors of the Catholic church, such as Ligouri, have written Marian books which explicitly call on believers to get saved through Mary. This is…

  • Assurance of Salvation

    We absolutely can have assurance of salvation. This surety is predicated on God’s inerrant and infallible Word. We are saved by Christ’s secure grip on us, not our grip on Him. We are preserved by God’s grace. The following Scriptures give clear and direct evidence of assurance of salvation. Sadly, the sacramental churches, such as…

  • Biblical Soteriology Is Monergistic

    Regeneration precedes faith. Faith is the fruit of regeneration, not the root of it. Biblical soteriology (how we are saved) is monergistic. That is, it is God acting alone. Man’s will is enslaved to sin. So his will is limited. Man cannot initiate salvation, because he is spiritually dead. Man’s will is so enslaved to…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Real Presence: Real or Not

    The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches teach that when the priest says the words of consecration, the bread and wine transform into the physical body and blood of Jesus. This is known as the Real Presence of Christ in the communion gifts. The Roman Catholic church dogmatizes this process under the rubric of transubstantiation. It…