This post is part of a series on the question of infant baptism. Did the apostles baptize infants, or was that practice a later innovation? In my first post, I pointed out that most of the biblical and historical evidence can fit either view. Therefore, we should focus on the key points that can’t fit …
This post is part of a series on the question of infant baptism. The previous article gave an overview of the evidence that people draw from to argue for one side or the other. In that article, we saw that most of the evidence people use can actually be consistent with either infant baptism or …
One of the most difficult issues of early church history is the question of infant baptism. Should Christians baptize their infant children, or should we wait until they commit their lives to Christ to baptize them? It seems that only one view could be the correct one. And on such an important issue as the …
The following article is by Reed K. Merino. I’ve reposted it by permission. The Day I Became Two Thousand Years Old! At Philadelphia, on December 14, 1968, our bishop Robert DeWitt in the “apostolic succession” ordained me as an Episcopalian priest at our parish, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Over a period of several years, I …
Recently, Eastern Orthodox apologists have worked to develop a new argument for the veneration of icons. This time, they are arguing from images of praying people found in the catacombs. This argument, which I will call the Participatory Art Argument, starts by pointing out that, in the catacombs, as I mentioned in my archaeology post, …
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Catholic Answers (catholic.com) is a hugely influential ministry. One of their functions is to provide people with pop-level arguments for Roman Catholicism. They repackage Roman Catholicism in a very appealing way. One of the goals of Catholic Answers is to prove that the Roman Catholic Church is in continuity with the early church. So many …
Is Catholic Answers Committed to Intellectual Honesty? Read More »
On this site, I’ve shown that we can reasonably conclude that the New Testament is infallible without drawing on an infallible tradition or magisterium to prove that it is. Anabaptists and Protestants, then, are in an excellent position—we have excellent support for our belief that Christian doctrine comes from the teachings of the apostles in …
by William R. McGrath This article was written around 1955 and published as an article and then a booklet. In this article, McGrath argues that the Protestant Reformation failed, being hamstrung by needing to follow political considerations. Instead, he advocates for following the example of the early Anabaptists, who even modern Anabaptists should learn from. …
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The subject of Mary has created divisions within the church. The doctrines about Mary have been pushed by the Catholic and Orthodox churches to the point that, if other traditions do not accept the doctrines, they believe these traditions to be erring in the faith and the cause of this division. But is this really …
Is the Assumption of Mary found in Revelation 12? Read More »
In this article, what I want to do is to help us rid our minds of modern and medieval thinking when approaching Paul’s letters, and step back into the first century context and read from their vantage point. My proposal is actually very simple. Read Paul’s words for what he actually says, not what we …