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...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 2, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
One reason why skeptics don’t believe in the God of the Bible, the argument goes, is that he’s a slayer of the innocent. As one example, Exodus 12:29 reads, “The Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.” So, the question becomes, how can God be all-good and...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 22, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
The Church teaches that the desire for baptism, whether explicitor implicit, saves those who die before they can receive it. Yet, someone may ask, “If that person doesn’t receive the sacrament of baptism, is he ‘fully Catholic’”? If by “fully Catholic” one means...
