Tag: apologetics

Once Saved, Always Saved, Twice Around

DJ AMDG had more questions and commentary on my post on OSAS (once saved, always saved), the (usually) Calvinist doctrine that you can’t “lose your salvation.” He’s in red, and my responses are in black: Joe, on Hebrews I don’t think anybody asserts that 3:14 means that. I could be wrong, and perhaps a Catholic… Continue reading Once Saved, Always Saved, Twice Around

GotQuestions Update: A Positive Development

As part of the ongoing saga involving me communicating with GotQuestions.org about their coverage of all things (well, two things) Catholic, Shea responded to me today. If you’re not familiar with what’s gone on, here’s: My original e-mail from March, on the issue of annulments; A semi-related followup e-mail from May, on the issue of… Continue reading GotQuestions Update: A Positive Development

My response to GotQuestions

If you haven’t been following this, I’ve had an ongoing correspondence with GotQuestions.org ministry. I criticized an article they wrote on annulments (a very slightly reworked version can be found here), and later, an article they wrote on sola Scriptura (the comment here is my e-mail to them, and it included links to that post).… Continue reading My response to GotQuestions

What Would YOU Write in 138,000 Words?

I found an interesting set of statistics, and have been playing around with them a little bit. The title of the chart is, “Number of Chapters, Number of Verses in Each Chapter,Total Number of Verses, and Total Number of Words in each book of the Greek New Testament,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like.… Continue reading What Would YOU Write in 138,000 Words?

Does 2 Plus 2 Always Equal 4? An Answer to Skeptics

Yesterday, I was at a prayer group, and one of my friends, Carlos, and I were talking almost incredulously about the sort of debates which went on in the early to middle ages of the Church. One of the major debates over Mary was this: was she conceived without sin (the majority position in both… Continue reading Does 2 Plus 2 Always Equal 4? An Answer to Skeptics

GotQuestions Gets Angry

I mentioned yesterday that in March, I e-mailed GotQuestions.org about a post which I thought badly misinformed readers on the Biblical arguments surrounding divorce in cases of adultery. The article imputed bad faith to Catholics – NAB allegedly changed the Bible: “There does not seem to be any textual basis for the NAB’s choice of… Continue reading GotQuestions Gets Angry

Does the Bible Permit Divorce in the Case of Adultery?

I mentioned GotQuestions.org yesterday (and will mention them at least once more, tomorrow), but today’s post is only somewhat related to them. This is an e-mail I sent them a while back, but it addresses a topic which I think has been the source of great confusion: does the Bible permit divorce in the case… Continue reading Does the Bible Permit Divorce in the Case of Adultery?

Sola Scriptura, the Protestant View

As a followup to yesterday’s post, I was reading a handful of Protestant defenses of sola Scriptura. One of them jumped out at me, because (a) it was from a source I’ve come in contact with a lot (GotQuestions.org, who I’d already e-mailed a correction to regarding the issue of annulments); and (b) it was… Continue reading Sola Scriptura, the Protestant View