Hold Fast Apologetics

  • Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Fled to Egypt

    “After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, ‘Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.’ 14 So he got up, took…

  • “Why Do You Call Me Good?” (Mark 10:18)

    “And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 18 And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do…

  • Jesus, Christians, Nicaea, and the Scriptures

    Jesus, Christians, Nicaea, and the Scriptures

    Here are the main points of this clip: ✔️Jesus was a Jew. “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and…

  • Ho Ho Homoousios!

    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…

  • Jesus Doubles Down: John 10 and Psalm 82

    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…

  • Did Jesus Quote the Old Testament?

    “The thesis is ‘that Christ’s view of Scripture can and should still be the Christian’s view of Scripture’—no more and no less.” John Wenham, Christ and the Bible, Third Edition (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009), 7. Did Jesus quote the Old Testament (Hebrew) Scriptures? Yes, and often! Jesus utilized…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • You and I are Not the Christ

    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…