Welcome! This website is a search for the historic Christian faith in an Anabaptist fashion. I’m offering a biblically and historically sound framework that Anabaptists can use to better understand their faith.
What are the teachings of the historic faith?
Explanations of and apologetics for the doctrines and practices. Who are the Anabaptists?
Do their teachings align with the historic faith? Are Catholic and Protestant doctrines true?
Evaluating the evidence.
Arguing Like Apollos
I’m engaged in apologetics, which is an attempt to defend the truth. One of the faults of apologetics can be that the apologist can stop searching for truth and end up defending what isn’t fully true. To counteract that, I try to be like Apollos (Acts 18:24-28), who defended what he thought was true, until he was corrected by those who knew better than he did, when he began to defend the actual truth with the same zeal.
On this site, I evaluate the best evidence for each view of Christianity. I defend what I think is true against other views, so that I can evaluate whether it actually is worth defending. If it is, I stick to it. If it isn’t, I follow the view that is truer. So this site is my honest assessment of what I think is true, and I would love to hear from you if you have evidence I’ve missed.
Latest Posts
- Did Saints Like John Chrysostom Venerate Icons? How Did It Arise?This article is the fifth (and last) in a series in which I evaluate the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox practice of iconodulia—veneration of images. In previous articles, I looked at the evidence predating 313, when Constantine began to favor …
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- Early Church Fathers on IconsThis post addresses the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic practice of venerating icons. It examines the textual evidence from the first centuries of Christianity to see whether or not the veneration of images was considered a legitimate practice. The purpose …
- What Does the Bible Say About Icons?This article is the third in a series where I show that before 313, and probably for some time after, the veneration of images was not a legitimate Christian practice. In this post, I will examine the Scriptures to see …
- Archaeology & Icon Veneration | From Before Constantine?This post is the second post in a series on whether the early Christians venerated images. In the other posts, I argue that before 313, the veneration of images was not a legitimate Christian practice. In this post, I will …
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- Icons | The Orthodox Church Has Changed the Apostolic FaithIn this post, I will show that the veneration of images is not consistent with the apostolic faith. Why does this matter? Because the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, each of which claims to be one and …
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- When Should We Disagree With the Early Church?When we try to discover the historic faith through early sources, we look for areas of consensus among early Christians. Typically, those beliefs are the ones we should also share. Not, of course, because the pre-Nicene church was infallible, but …