——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
This is a follow up to article below: An unnamed, friendly objector has offered several arguments against this position. I’ll quote his arguments below: Just to clarify, by this logic of the atonement, I don’t think you can say Christ … Continue reading What Is an Atonement?: Eternal Justification and Apostasy
Hypothetical universalism (HU) is one of those positions that sounds like it’s giving everybody what they want. So you get this neat little package: And at first glance, people think: great—problem solved. We can preach “Christ died for you” to … Continue reading What Is an Atonement?
1) The “in God” question is the whole debate Panentheism lives or dies on what “in God” means. The phrase is doing all the work, but it’s usually left undefined—so it can function like a rhetorical bridge from omnipresence to … Continue reading Panentheism: Too Strong or Too Weak
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