by Karlo Broussard | Mar 25, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Bible teaches that Jesus is “the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2). This is the heart of the Christian message: Christ made satisfaction for our sins (paid a debt) through his death on the cross....
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 14, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Some Christians object to the practice of invoking the saints’ intercession because they think it takes away from the unique mediation of Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5—“There is one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ”). But those who invoke the saints counter that...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
When it comes to the Christian doctrine of hell, there is no lack of critics. One critique, espoused by David Bentley Hart, is that hell necessarily entails punishment without reform, which seemingly would be contrary to God’s goodness. In his book That All Shall Be...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Typically, Protestants who believe in the “once saved always saved” doctrine also believe we can “know” we have eternal life. And the knowledge here is taken to be knowledge with absolute certainty, i.e., having no possibility of error—as opposed to knowledge with...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
A student of mine recently was troubled by a challenge that a Protestant pastor posed to him and a group of teenagers. The pastor claimed that the denial of the “once saved always saved” doctrine—that’s to say, the Catholic belief that it’s possible to lose your...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Stock Protestant objections to the practice of invoking the saints to pray for us have been around for quite some time: “Jesus is the one mediator,” “we shouldn’t communicate with the dead,” “the dead can’t hear us,” etc. And a plethora of successful responses have...
