Category: Apologetics
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Ho Ho Homoousios!
“First, if he claims to be God and yet in fact is not, he has to be a madman or a lunatic. Second, if he is neither God nor a lunatic, he has to be a liar, deceiving others by his lie. Third, if he is neither of these, he…
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Jesus Doubles Down: John 10 and Psalm 82
Erik Manning from Testify and Is Jesus Alive explains that prior to the words recorded in John 10:34 (quoting Psalm 82:6), Jesus was “clearly claiming divine authority,” and the Jews demonstrated awareness of this because they picked up stones to kill Jesus for blasphemy (v33). Manning points out that Jesus…
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Is it Wrong to Expose False Teaching?
The need to expose a teaching (or programming) which departs from the core beliefs of biblical Christianity is not new. It is an important endeavor, both described and prescribed throughout the New Testament letters! It’s not new and it won’t stop until Jesus returns. “But test everything; hold fast what…
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Even Politics
Yes, Politics is incredibly messy. Because we are incredibly messy. But morality (right and wrong) is necessary—which makes politics necessary. Why? Knowing “wrong” exists necessitates that “right” exists. As C.S. Lewis expressed in his book Mere Christianity, “A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea…
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The Enneagram: Did John Calvin Really Say That?
Don and Joy Veinot, alongside Marcia Montenegro, in their book Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret, address the frequent misquoting of John Calvin (by Ian Cron and others). Numerous Enneagram authors and enthusiasts, like Ian Cron, have advocated the pursuit of self-knowledge via the enneagram. Oftentimes, these authors do so…
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You and I are Not the Christ
You and I are not the Christ. Even John the Baptist, whom Jesus said, “among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared,” proclaimed that he was not the Christ (Matthew 11:11; Jn 1:19-20). “He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, ‘I am not…
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Is Rohr Correct about Propitiation?
An updated post from June of 2024: Per his book The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr promotes the view that penal subustitutionary atonement, was and still is, merely a “theory.” Rohr claims that “the early church had never heard” of penal substitutionary atonement. [1] Another quote comes from a devotional entitled,…
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God’s Got This
Whose words are we listening to, (even in the still moments of the day)? Friends, it is not ‘overthinking’ that is our problem. Instead, what stirs up our emotions and creates anxiety, is “wrong thinking.” Meditating upon our own understanding of events (no matter how reasonable those thoughts might seem),…
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Prepare Their Minds for Action
“Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:13 Imagine you are 16, and your very first job interview is for the position of Lifeguard at the local pool. You are…
Hold Fast Apologetics 