Polygamy has been getting some attention lately in response to a pastor's announcement that he's married a second wife. Ben Shapiro ...

A post I wrote last week about Josephus was partly about the likelihood that the earliest Jewish opponents of Christianity communicated abo...

When 2 Thessalonians 2:15 comes up in discussions related to the Christian rule of faith, we can begin by going several verses earlier and a...

When it's shown that there are significant historical problems with something like the perpetual virginity of Mary, her assumption, or p...

We need to keep in mind that the significance of extrabiblical sources varies, and can vary widely , from one context to another. On a subje...

Since so many Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox evaluations of Protestantism involve criticizing sola scriptura without making much of a c...

Reliance on extrabiblical evidence is often equated with dependence on the alleged traditions of a group like Catholicism or Orthodoxy. But ...

It's often suggested that sola scriptura is too difficult to live out. How do you know which documents are canonical and which aren'...

In the mid 1990s, I met a man online named John Wallace who impressed upon me the value of hostile corroboration. He made good use of the co...

To add to what I said in my last post , it's important that Protestants keep in mind that we aren't the only ones with solas. We use...

The question of "arbitration," then, lies at the heart of the matter–its necessity, and also its nature–and the theologians of t...

Catholic apologist Trent Horn has a running commentary on Mike Winger's critique of Catholic authority: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Having reversed church policy on the admission of adulterous Catholics to communion, Francis is now making moves to reverse church policy o...

I’m continuing to address the question of why the “oral tradition” mentioned by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 had to be written down. This is...

https://rationalityofaith.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/against-the-pious-cant-of-appealing-to-tradition-in-deciding-trinitarian-controversies/

I'm going to comment on two critics of the church calendar, beginning with Carl Truman: http://www.reformation21.org/articles/ash-w...

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord (Ps 102:18). This verse lays do...

Thomas Hobbes said “The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof”. History ...

It seems to me that what Roman Catholicism has done over the years is to “synthesize” and to bring in unbiblical concepts, which it then und...

The word “tradition” has been a wax nose throughout church history, used in various ways at various times, as described here: Four different...