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 | 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...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 11, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
Objections to the belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist are numerous. Some attempt to expose the absurdities (here and here) of such belief. Others attempt to show that such belief contradicts what we know elsewhere in the Bible. Consider, for example,...
by Karlo Broussard | May 14, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
In a previous article, we looked at an objection to the Catholic doctrine on the Real Pressence from Protestant pastor Todd Baker: a literal interpretation of Jesus’ words “eat my flesh . . . drink my blood” leads to absurdity. Baker’s inferred absurdity is that by...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 9, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
There is no shortage of counters to the literal reading of Jesus’ words “eat my flesh . . . drink my blood” (John 6:54-58). One form these counters take is showing that such a literal reading entails an absurdity. Protestant Pastor Todd Baker makes this kind of...
