752 results for 'hard sayings'

Dupes, Deceivers, or… Catholics?(Post)

The Author in his own words:C.S. Lewis’s Trilemma: Liar, Lunatic, or Lord In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis famously poses a trilemma, sometimes called the Liar, Lunatic, or Lord argument, which wor ...

Answering Protestant Comebacks: The Bread of Life Discourse(Post)

The Catholic Church teaches that when we partake of the Eucharist in Holy Communion, we are literally consuming the body and blood of Jesus Christ. A key passage from Scripture that Catholics, and ot ...

Hasty Generalizations and True Scotsmen(Post)

No True Scotsman is a type of logical fallacy that involves making exceptions when a claim is contradicted in order to prevent the claim from being falsified. It’s called the No True ...

Debunking Deepak Chopra's New Age Jesus(Post)

Deepak Chopra is an alternative medicine doctor and self-help advocate whose advice sounds profound but, upon closer examination, turns out to be verbose gibberish. For example, consider these two qu ...

The Most Frightening Passages in Scripture(Post)

Our life has only one of two ends: eternal life with Jesus Christ or eternal damnation with the Evil One. There is no middle ground, no compromised position, no neutral or safe space. There is no su ...

The Counterfeit Christ of Modern Sexual Ethics(Post)

In his book Radical Love: Introduction to Queer Theology, Patrick Cheng claims, “Radical love is ultimately about love [emphasis in original], which, as St. Paul teach ...

A Five-Part Test for Your Eucharistic Beliefs(Post)

Understanding the Eucharist How can you tell if you have the right understanding—the biblical interpretation, Jesus’ interpretation—of the Eucharist? I’d suggest five things to look for: your belie ...

Sola Scriptura Turns Protestant Understandings of the Bible into a Novelty(Post)

Protestant View on Scripture Interpretation Protestants Say: Scripture is self-interpreting; therefore, the believer’s private interpretation is what the Holy Spirit intended. Catholic Respons ...

Getting Kids To Heaven(Post)

There’s an old joke that fits me well: Before I got married, I had eight theories about raising kids; now I have eight kids and no theories.When I enrolled my first child in a wonderful Catholic elem ...

Are Protestants Closer to the Truths of Catholicism Than They Think? (Post)

To outsiders, Catholicism is weird.Protestants, especially, often have a hard time comprehending the Catholic world of popes, Mary statues, prayer cards, vestments, smells, bells, and Jesus’ actual b ...

Advent Apologetics: How Does Prophetic Fulfillment Work?(Post)

When a true prophet says something about the future, at some point, it must be fulfilled. This raises the question of how the concept of fulfillment works. In cases of non-symbolic prophecy, it is of ...

Did the Early Christians Get Things Wrong?(Post)

The Claims of Early Christian Beliefs You can find countless variations of the claim that early Christians believed Protestant things: Mormons who claim that the early Christians be ...