The Protestant/Apostolic doctrine of "imputation" is another "homoousious" separating truth from error for well over the past quarter of the church's history. Imputation says that if God saves you, you get his righteousness, and he by it has justified you, at present. No Christian awaits what Scripture calls “justification.” He has it already.  Romans 4 is key. The doctrine of imputation comes fro...  Read More

An interaction with Mr. Garrett Ham (@garrettham_esq) and a Mr. Daniel Harley (@Daniel__Harley) on X on or around 2 Aug 26.1) Mr. Ham writes: “My evangelical upbringing taught me that the goal was to get as close to the early Church as possible. So I started reading what the early Church actually wrote. Now I'm Catholic.”2) I replied to Mr. Ham: “Keep going back, sir. You’ve not gone far enough. I...  Read More

To a Mr. Ben Pierce on Facebook. 1 Aug 26.Ben wrote in a response to a short I posted (https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EA4SqzcSh/). He wrote the following:“Trinity was not taught by the apostles. Period. It wasn’t taught until 5th century.”My reply:Hello sir. Pardon the long response, I know that people will often dismiss them, but I think I’ve seen two responses from you to things I’ve posted r...  Read More

Thank you for this. I'm taking advantage of this interchange for hopefully a respectful wider discussion. I know nothing else about of any of you except these few posts. "Can I be a Christian without believing in the bodily assumption of Mary into heaven?" (@Curi_Christian). That was the question. -A Catholic's response:“Yes. I’m Catholic and I don’t believe it.” (@bowslingercraft).-Your reply (in...  Read More

New Testament members are all regenerate. We must be born again to enter it. Baptism is a disciple’s work. If one is a disciple, even a very young one, it is a grace-communicating work of those who we can both joyously and solemnly assume to have been baptized already- by the triune God himself- into Christ’s death and raised up with him in his Resurrection. Regeneration is never to be believed in...  Read More

If you recognize the picture here you’ve likely done some study into the earliest generations surrounding the Christian Religion in the world. The picture is from around AD 200 from Italy depicting a mockery of the idea of Jesus being a Savior who was crucified. A man worshipping this crucified man with the head of a donkey is being mocked. It’s not exactly a work by Raphael but it gets the point ...  Read More