It surprises many people to know that the existence of God is not an object of faith but can be known from creation. Given that we can know truth and reality, what does it reveal about the existence of God?
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” —Stephen F Roberts In discussions over the existence of God, many atheists seem to assume that anything that can be labeled “god” counts toward what informed…
This is a follow up to my video Could This Bible Verse Destroy Protestantism? With over 75,000 views, 4,500 likes, and 3,400 comments in its first year, it is probably the most popular video on my channel. But almost no one gets it. Even after responding to hundreds and hundreds of comments and pinning an…
Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen is a novelist and youtuber specializing in Viking culture, bush craft and even some political topics. I’ve enjoyed several of his outdoor videos and appreciated his generally conservative and moral outlook on life. Recently, however, Bull-Hansen turned from carving sticks and politics to religion – specifically Paganism. Now if he were just…
In support of the Catechism in a Year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Press – the publishers of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible – has released a new edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The first of its kind, this beautiful edition has special “Foundations of Faith” contents and color coding that…
It may sound odd (or even blasphemous) to say that Jesus Christ is not a human person, but this is precisely true. The problem is that this is a very metaphysically precise statement and most people have not been introduced to the relevant philosophical distinctions required to make proper sense of it. Here I will…
In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I’m joined by one of our favourite guests of all time, Dr. Douglas Beaumont, to talk about Evangelical Christian conversions to Catholicism. Doug is a convert himself and a former student, then instructor, at Southern Evangelical Seminary where he worked, as a graduate student, under the late Evangelical…
In this article I wish to offer some clarification on different categories of arguments for the existence of God. I am not weighing in on the relative value any of them here. Rather, I am just pointing out some distinctions and categories that are often confused or missed at the popular level. Also, due to non-standard…
Here I respond to the top hit in my search for “Defense of Sola Scriptura” – a video by Dr. Jordan B. Cooper titled “A Defense of Sola Scriptura.”
Are you a Protestant who’s considering becoming Catholic? Dr. Gavin Ortlund would have you consider some things first – and here I respond to his advice.
Due to modern ailments, there are many today who cannot physically tolerate ingesting gluten or alcohol. How, then, can they receive our Lord’s body and blood in the Eucharist during Communion? There are two errors that come from misunderstanding the Church’s teachings on the Eucharist. On one end of the spectrum (especially among Protestants, but…
Here I have a discussion with my friend Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers about his new book, “Meeting the Protestant Response” (a follow-up to his previous book, “Meeting the Protestant Challenge”). In this sequel, Karlo goes over numerous Protestant “comebacks” to Catholic claims based on Scripture, and we go over a few of them here.
Does Anything Follow from Sola Scriptura? In what follows I will show that it would not matter if a Catholic were to affirm the foundational Protestant principle of Sola Scriptura (“Scripture Alone”). In fact I will argue that nothing relevant to the Catholic/Protestant debate actually follows from Sola Scriptura at all. What Is Sola Scriptura?…
Douglas Beaumont 