Josephus is an important source on some baptismal issues, but he often gets overlooked or underestimated. He refers to how John the Baptist...

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...

I disagreed with him on a lot of issues, but, as with anybody who does the sort of work he did, there's a lot to agree with him about an...

I'm not just referring to formal debates, though they're part of the problem. The bigger problem is how Protestants in general handl...

I've written before about how opposition to the perpetual virginity of Mary persisted beyond the earliest centuries, into the late patri...

Critics of Christianity often allege that there was widespread disunity among the early Christians: Paul disagreeing with the Twelve, a Petr...

A common mistake in the Christian life is to get overly focused on our contemporaries. Neglect of God is the most significant form that take...

In other posts, I've discussed some of the problems with taking John 3:5 as a reference to baptismal regeneration. The exchange between ...

I recently came across a critic of Protestantism who made the common assertion that we need an infallible source to tell us what canon of sc...

Cameron Bertuzzi just posted a video responding to Gavin Ortlund regarding the Zeitoun Marian apparitions . I want to address several of the...

There are more than three, but here's an easy way to remember three of them. Baptismal regeneration is inconsistent with: - The freene...

"Allegorically this text [Luke 8:19] harmonizes with the one above, where it is said of the Jews who attend only to the letter of the L...

"For as inactivity hurts the body, so also inactivity as to what is good renders the soul more supine and feeble." (John Chrysosto...

I've discussed the subject in other threads over the years, but only briefly, and the Zeitoun case has been getting a lot of attention l...

There are some Biblical passages that can seem to support justification through something other than faith if the passages are taken in isol...

When critics of the traditional gospel authorship attributions discuss the subject, they sometimes distinguish between the two earlier gospe...

In my last post , I referred to how John 21:18-19 lines up well with what other sources report about Peter and Mark's use of Peter as a ...

We often think of the evidence for the authorship of the gospels in terms of internal evidence and external sources of the patristic era, li...

When Cornelius' justification apart from baptism in Acts 10 is discussed, the focus tends to be on verses 44-48 and the timing of the re...

An explanation often put forward for why Cornelius and those with him were justified prior to baptism in Acts 10:43-48 is that the prebaptis...