by Karlo Broussard | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Critics of the doctrine of hell often argue that it’s unjust, because eternal punishment exceeds the temporal nature of a mortal sin. Why should any sin we commit on earth, in time, require everlasting punishment in hell? It’s not proportional. St. Thomas Aquinas...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often appeal to Revelation 5:8 as support for the intercession of the saints: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that “every spiritual soul is . . . immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final resurrection” (366). But some Christians outside mainstream Protestantism, in particular...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
There are many ways to argue for the historical reliability of the Gospels. One compelling approach is to point to what nineteenth-century Anglican priest J.J. Blunt called “undesigned coincidences.” These occur when you have two texts containing pieces of information...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 14, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that the Church “must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers,” and such a persecution will “unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 29, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 1240 that a proper form for administering baptism is “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” But for some Protestants, such as Oneness Pentecostals, this Trinitarian...
