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St. Justin Martyr’s First Apology dates to around 160. In the text we find Justin offering an explanation and a defense to the pagan emperor. That includes a description of what the Christians of his day thought about baptism:I will also relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are making. As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertak …

“How can you believe that? Don’t you know the Bible says…”It’s a challenge we have to meet. If we can’t reconcile apparent contradictions between Scripture and Catholic teaching, how can our own faith survive? And if we can’t help our Protestant brothers and sisters overcome their preconceptions about “unbiblical” Catholic doctrines and practices, how will they ever come to embrace the fullness of the Faith?In this excerpt from Meeting the Protestant Challenge, Karlo Broussard gives an example o …

There are many books on the subject of salvation, and many of them share certain characteristics:1. They focus exclusively on the subject of eternal salvation.2. They focus in particular on the doctrine of justification.3. They often ignore, in the interests of systematic theology, the way in which the Bible uses language.4. They are often written in a polemical, hostile style.5. Due to the authors’ unfamiliarity with the way other groups of Christians express themselves, they mistakenly critici …

Do you subscribe to Catholic Answers Magazine? It's time for you to subscribe and find out what all the fuss is about. But first, here's a Sneak Peek at an upcoming article by Karlo Broussard where he considers whether the doctrine of hell is compatible with God being all-good and all-loving... There is an online meme with a young adult couple that reads: “If you don’t love me, I’ll make sure you burn forever. If it’s creepy when he says it, why is it beautiful when …