[important preliminary note: Catholics don’t ultimately pray to anyone besides God, if this is construed as any creature being able to answer prayers by themselves, rather than (necessarily) as a helper or delegated representative of God (helping to get a petition to Him, for an answer). We ask departed saints and angels to intercede for us to God. Even when we say “pray to saints” this is what we mean: at least the properly catechized Catholics who understand their... Read more
I’m replying to a lengthy, multi-part critique of my article, 50 Unanswerable NT Passages Against “Faith Alone” (2-24-26) by a very nice Reformed / Calvinist woman who goes by “C Xa” online. We have corresponded off and on, and she promised to make this critique after I challenged her. I greatly appreciate the engagement, which is becoming increasingly rare these days. Her counter-responses can be read in their entirety in comments made underneath this article, and I reproduce virtually all of them,... Read more
See Part One See Part Two I’m replying to a lengthy, multi-part critique of my article, 50 Unanswerable NT Passages Against “Faith Alone” (2-24-26) by a very nice Reformed / Calvinist woman who goes by “C Xa” online. We have corresponded off and on, and she promised to make this critique after I challenged her. I greatly appreciate the engagement, which is becoming increasingly rare these days. Her counter-responses can be read in their entirety in comments made underneath this article, and... Read more
See Part One I’m replying to a lengthy, multi-part critique of my article, 50 Unanswerable NT Passages Against “Faith Alone” (2-24-26) by a very nice Reformed / Calvinist woman who goes by “C Xa” online. We have corresponded off and on, and she promised to make this critique after I challenged her. I greatly appreciate the engagement, which is becoming increasingly rare these days. Her counter-responses can be read in their entirety in comments made underneath this article, and I... Read more
I’m replying to a lengthy, multi-part critique of my article, 50 Unanswerable NT Passages Against “Faith Alone” (2-24-26) by a very nice Reformed / Calvinist woman who goes by “C Xa” online. We have corresponded off and on, and she promised to make this critique after I challenged her. I greatly appreciate the engagement, which is becoming increasingly rare these days. Her counter-responses can be read in their entirety in comments made underneath this article. Bible passages (RSV) from... Read more
→ Make a gift of $25 or more and quickly receive Faith Alone: The “Theological Novum” ***** ***** Go to my Blog Book Page with the Table of Contents, Introduction, and two sample chapters that can be read. ***** *** A Doctrine That Came From Nowhere: Announcing Faith Alone: The “Theological Novum” There’s a striking description in Alister McGrath’s Iustitia Dei, a scholarly history of the Christian doctrine of justification, that continues to astonish me. McGrath — an Anglican, not... Read more
Subtitle: Disproofs from 525 Bible Passages & 30 Church Fathers Available only as a gift for premium supporters, as PDF, ePub, and Amazon Kindle (AZW3) files, for a 100% tax-deductible donation of $25 or more to my apologetics apostolate. Just click on the smaller book image above for a quick and easy transaction. Many thanks beforehand! [This is my 57th book, completed on 11 May 2026: 30 years to the month after I finished my first book, A Biblical Defense... Read more
This is the transcript of the initial presentation of the video, “PROOF! Catholic Prayer For The Dead is Biblical” (Catholic Bible Highlights with Kenny Burchard, 5-8-26). ***** 2 Timothy 1:16, 18 (RSV) May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, . . . [18] may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day . . . Catholics believe in prayers for the dead, in order to aid them in their journey through... Read more
Sean Luke obtained Masters of Divinity and Masters of Systematic Theology degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He runs the YouTube channel, Anglican Aesthetics, and a Substack site with the same name. He is a member of GAFCON (Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans), which is a traditionalist or “orthodox” reform movement of “authentic Anglicans”. It opposes, for example, Anglicans “who have rejected the authority of God’s written Word and have put their trust in their own reason . . .... Read more
Transformation / New Life / Newness / Renewal Luke 5:37-38 (RSV) And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. [38] But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. (cf. Mt 9:17; Mk 2:21-22) Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no... Read more
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