by Karlo Broussard | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Protestant apologists often argue against the papacy along the following line: if Peter were the first pope, as Catholics say he was, then we’d expect to find the New Testament mention such a Petrine office when it would have been pertinent to do so. Since we don’t...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 6, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
It’s often argued that sexual activity with a member of the same sex is immoral because it’s a disordered act, or a perversion of the sexual faculty. The idea here is that moral disorder enters human acts when we willfully direct some faculty or power away from its...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 10, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Do you want to be left behind? For those of you familiar with Tim LaHaye’s Left Behindseries, you’re probably thinking, “Heck no! I don’t won’t to be left behind.” Well, I’m here to tell you, “You do want to be left behind.” The question is prompted by Jesus’ teaching...
by Karlo Broussard | May 11, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Some Christians think the possibility of going to hell is solely for unbelievers. They don’t believe that a true born-again Christian can lose his salvation, hence the common phrase once saved, always saved. But for other Christians, hell is a stark reality to contend...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 22, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
When you hear the sentiment “thou shalt not be a white supremacist”—it’ll be dressed up a bit, but that’s the meaning—you can rest assured that the moral absolute being expressed here isn’t really about white supremacy. Sometimes it amounts to a form of relativism...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 29, 2022 | Articles, General
I recently attended the debate between Jimmy Akin and Bart Ehrman on the reliability of the Gospels. What jumped out to me—and what I wish had gotten more play in the debate—was Ehrman’s claim that Matthew and Luke disagree as to where Joseph and Mary began their...
