by Karlo Broussard | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
When talking about the Catholic practice of asking the saints to pray for us, a question arises from both Catholics and Protestants: “Why seek the help of saints when we can go straight to Jesus?” Protestants often pose this question as an objection. For Catholics,...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 16, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
In a previous article, I defended rebirth by water baptism in John 3:3-5 against several challenges. But there are a couple of more I think are worth considering. I’ll address each in turn. For example, some Christians deny the “water” because it doesn’t fit with the...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 4, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
“Are you baptized in the Holy Ghost?” This is a question you’ll often hear if you hang around Charismatic Christians—whether Protestant or Catholic. What they usually mean is, “Have you experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in a powerful way?” Often they think a...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 2, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
In a previous article, I argued that sola scriptura blocks a Protestant from having infallible knowledge of several books in the Bible, including some from the New Testament, like Hebrews, Mark, and James. The reason I gave was that neither Jesus nor the apostles, the...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 20, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways are well-known paths we can take to prove that God exists. The first way of the five argues from motion. Imagine a stone that’s being moved by a stick in my hand. There’s nothing about the stone itself that explains its motion. It’s in...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 12, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
When it comes to the possibility of losing salvation, Catholics have their Bible passages—John 15:1-5, Galatians 5:4, Matthew 10:22. But Protestants aren’t short on comebacks. One such comeback is employed by Protestant apologist James White. Whenever the above...