On Twitter, Bethany McGrew expressed interest in debating me on original sin, and perhaps a few related issues as well. In response, I sent her my video on the topic: Here was her response to my argument: Yes, I understand … Continue reading By Nature Children of Wrath
The issue isn’t whether God knows everything. Everyone in the debate can affirm divine omniscience. The real question is whether God’s election is unconditional or conditional—whether God chooses people for salvation because of something in them (foreseen faith, sacramental response, … Continue reading Before Any Had Done Anything: Romans 9 and the Logic of Grace
Dan’s framing: “Christianity has always maintained some kind of opposition to abortion, it has never been directly based on the Bible. It has always been socially contingent and it has only become the highly salient central identity marker of conservative … Continue reading Breath, Birth, and Abortion
——Against the Claim That Personhood Begins at First Breath I recently engaged in a dialogue with someone over when a human being becomes a person. He holds that the Bible teaches a person comes into existence at first breath, and … Continue reading From the Womb: Luke 1 and Prenatal Personhood
Often in conversations about the papacy and sola scriptura, you’ll hear the reassurance: “We’re not charismatics. Bishops don’t receive new prophecy. We can’t just invent doctrine—we only clarify what was already contained in the apostolic deposit.” It’s meant to dissolve … Continue reading The Tertium Quid Church
My Plea Let me just start with this, you will die someday, so will I, and so will everyone you know, love them or hate them. This is the undeniable truth every single living person is facing. It’s like a … Continue reading My Plea by Vincent Lancon
One of the deepest problems in the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation is not merely whether it is “miraculous,” but whether the metaphysical explanation offered for it still explains anything at all once the doctrine’s own exceptions are introduced. The … Continue reading Bare Substance
Provisionist Perspective asks: “What sacrifice ‘appeased’ Yahweh when He planned to destroy the nation of Israel in Exodus 32?” The question is meant to function as a refutation of propitiation (and, by extension, penal substitution): if God relented from wrath … Continue reading Blot Me Out
Christian Wagner recently released a video arguing that sola Scriptura is false and self-defeating. His approach is slightly different, but it ultimately fares no better than the standard “canon argument.” Here is a strong response to Wagner: Wagner’s Video Wagner … Continue reading Wagner Debunked on Sola Scriptura
The Triablogue article wasn’t written in response to that “King Louis IX” tweet. It was responding to a different Catholic-style argument that masturbation was some form of sex and especially the Onan/prooftext move and the broader tendency to treat tradition … Continue reading Master Debaters and the Lust of the Heart
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