by Karlo Broussard | Oct 20, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
One of the most common objections Protestants raise against the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is that it seems to contradict what Jesus taught about the immediacy of heaven after death. In fact, well-known Protestant writers Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie make...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 9, 2025 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
One of the most common reasons skeptics doubt the Gospels is that they present Jesus as a miracle-worker. After all, the logic goes, if a story contains supernatural elements, then it must be legendary. This assumption drives much of the skepticism surrounding the...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 3, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Recently, CBS News reported on what it called “the world’s largest synchronized water baptism,” an event named Baptize America. Participants from some 650 churches nationwide gathered throughout the country for the occasion, with an estimated 30,000 people baptized in...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 26, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
John 3:5—Jesus’ words about being “born of water and Spirit”—is one of the strongest biblical proofs for baptismal regeneration. But not everyone agrees that he’s talking about baptism here. Some Christians push back with a familiar objection: if salvation is a free...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 1, 2025 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
One of the challenges often raised against the Christian faith is that the gospel portrait of Jesus looks too much like the “mythic hero” archetype. The claim is simple: Since Jesus’ story resembles the recurring pattern of legendary heroes from world mythology, it...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 31, 2025 | Articles
For many, the mercy of God seems incompatible with the doctrine of hell. If God is all-merciful, then wouldn’t he have mercy on the damned and give them the grace they need to repent? Although the damned wouldn’t be able to reorient their wills to God naturally, given...