Alpha and Omega Ministries is a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. James White, director, is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics for numerous schools.
Nothing really startling here. Anne Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century visionary whose book, The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ provided a major portion of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, will be beatified at a ceremony October 3rd, a move which puts her on the road to “sainthood.” For those who only know the biblical definition of a
For to this day we are a wonder to God’s enemies, who carry themselves not only with boldness but with abandoned impudence against the pure doctrine of the gospel. To them we are heretics, schismatics, dogs — nay, the offscouring of the world. But although we are to them for signs and wonders, it is sufficient for us to be
If I did not believe that every Federal Judge (known today as “god on earth” it seems, at least in their own minds) will someday stand before the True Judge, I would throw my hands up in utter dismay. Take two ibuprofen before reading this. My friends, such judges are a judgment from God on an ungodly nation. Mark my
I had written: Meanwhile, I sat in utter amazement as I read an article by Kevin Johnson on the “Reformed Catholicism” blog. It was another complete fulfillment of the citation I posted here a few days ago: “…such men that are for middle ways in points of doctrine have a greater kindness for that extreme they go half way to
I think I would sooner see a person attend a Roman Catholic church than a Baptist or Pentecostal church. and, Why do we let these “Reformed” Baptists get away with this stuff, anyway? They openly separate themselves from the historic Church, so who authorized them to provide the “objective exegesis” about the real meaning of the Mass or whatever?
For those of you on dial-up, may I extend once again my sympathies. Being stuck on dial-up while traveling is enough to make me count my blessings for my office computer’s high-speed internet access, believe me. Life these days involves the constant juxtaposition of the greatly encouraging next to the greatly discouraging. On the one hand I see the faithfulness
I had never attended an LDS Temple Open House before, though there have been many such openings over the past two decades of ministry to Mormons. But it happened in the Lord’s providence that I was able to tour the new Manhattan LDS Temple today. This is one of the most unique temples in the world, as space is at
A guy whose nickname uses the genitive form of a second declension noun sent me the following citation. Man does it speak the truth: “such men that are for middle ways in points of doctrine have a greater kindness for that extreme they go half way to than for that which they go halfway from.” Traill, Justification Vindicated, 2
Evidently they now share a blog! Now that’s just what was needed, another blog! There’s a definite shortage, wouldn’t you agree? 🙂 Sadly, things have started off on the wrong foot (which isn’t overly surprising, given the documented track record we’ve provided over the past few months). Alexander decided to attempt to respond to the Sola Fide entry immediately below.
The Lord was gracious once again, and here I am back on “the Island,” as it is called by those who live here. Modem is working, computer is on, and here we go…
I am thrilled to link to the statement on justification by the faculty of Westminster Seminary in Escondido. I truly believe over the next decade we will need to continue to epagonizomai in defense of the “once for all delivered to the saints faith” (Jude 3) and that it will be this very area that will be at the center
A major issue that has been lost in the recent “neolegalism” / “Federal Vision” / “I’m into Medievalism, aren’t I cool?” / “Yeah, but I own all of NT Wright’s books, so I’m cooler” debate is what sola fide, “faith alone,” really tells us. You hear it said all the time, “We are not saved by believing in justification by
Today is a travel day, I speak tomorrow, and Thursday I’m visiting the new LDS Temple in Manhattan, so the blog explosion of the past few days will now come to a screeching halt. Feast for famine I guess.
Some “Reformed Catholics” have become quite adept at mocking the idea of standing for the purity of the gospel, as if that involves reducing the gospel to ethereal, fluffy concepts floating about above our heads. They likewise insist that we are enemies of the gospel because we insist upon “parsing” particular theological statements (i.e., we stand against false gospels). Well,
I noted in Karl Keating’s E-letter that Catholic Answers was going to put up some forums on their website just a few weeks ago. I have been traveling (obviously), and am home for just a few days before heading back to Long Island, so I took advantage of a real Internet connection to check it out. First, this is a
Click here. Christianity is heresy in a totalitarian secular state (or a totalitarian Muslim state, etc.). The Inquisition isn’t just a Roman idea. Secularists like the idea as well.
At first I didn’t even see it. I saw a reference to it on Dave Armstrong’s blog, of all places. Good ol’ Alexander the Coppersmith (AtC), who has the amazing ability of joining hands with anyone, no matter what their beliefs, as long as it means he can get into print insulting me, had posted on l0g0s’ blog regarding the
Did you know that Terminal 7 at JFK Airport is closed if you arrive at 2:25am? Yes indeedy. The things you learn when you travel. And did you know you have to get on that train thing and go to Terminal 4 to hang around at that time in the morning? And that they had Attila the Hun design the
With what effrontery then will the Papists boast that they possess the gospel, which is not only corrupted by many inventions, but more than adulterated by many wicked doctrines? Let us remember that it is not enough to retain the name of the gospel, and some kind of summary of its doctrines, if its solid purity do not remain untouched.
These “interlopers” Paul roundly condemns as “sham-Christians,” that is, persons who called themselves and were probably regarded by others as Christians but whose conduct in fact falsified their claim to be Christian….It thus emerges that the interlopers were sham-Christians precisely because they had not really grasped the fundamental principle of the gospel—justification by faith apart from works of the law.
I asked my parents a question as we sat at a reception for the graduates at our church Friday evening. “When I graduated, did you sit there thinking, ‘Wait, this can’t be happening, because I graduated just a little while ago myself?'” And they confirmed that this is in fact a normal response. I feel better knowing that. Congratulations, Josh!
A very interesting debate where both sides make strong cases, until one examines the other. Michuta makes a strong opening statement, however it is refuted by Dr. White during rebuttal. For the rest of the debate Michuta makes no attempt to deal with Dr. White’s countering evidence, and simply gives responses grounded in accusations of misunderstanding and deliberate mischaracterization. This
Alexander the Coppersmith blew a fuse a couple of days ago. I’ll try to find time to document the words of this “zealous Reformed Catholic” later on, though the next few days do not look good for allowing much time for that. Just one gem from the words of this wonderful correspondent: The theology of the Baptist schismatics stinks. Its
Islam means “submission,” not peace. Proof is available linguistically, and here, culturally.
As I told Rich, I had not given it a single thought since last Thursday. Too focused on the Apocrypha to do much else right now. So I apologize that we didn’t do the long-distance DL this morning. We are having transportation problems as it is, so it is next to impossible to schedule anything anyway. Don’t forget the debate
Just think of it folks: today the God-ordained covenant of marriage can be “legally” violated in the same state in which Jonathan Edwards preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and on the same day the International Olympic Committee cleared transsexuals to compete in the Olympics in Athens! It does seem the brakes have come off on the
Hey, dynamic equivalency is all the rage, and no one wants to be a literalist and actually worry about things like context and word meaning, so the NRCT may well be a big hit. Here’s an example: For Christ did not send me to make people Christians and join them to the new covenant by an external religious act, but
In case you’ve run into the new-fangled “Reformed Catholics” running about the web, eagerly displaying their erudite insights, “ecumenical” willingness to read Calvin (they only seem to see parts of what he wrote, however) while extolling Chesterton and the like, you may be a tad confused by their constant discussions about how everyone else (hey, isn’t that very sectarian?) believes
The Gobbler (a not-so-famous theological super-hero) sent me this quote from a sermon by Greg Bahnsen. No date was included, but it may have been post-ECT and had relevance to (seemingly) Gerry Matatics. In a sermon titled The Road to Rome, Was the Reformation Right?, the late Dr. Bahnsen said, “No, I cannot embrace a Roman bishop and say we
