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September 2025

September 12, 2025

Goliath’s Height: Can We Determine It?

This is the transcript of the video, The Truth About Goliath’s Height Revealed! (6-10-25),...

September 12, 2025

Free Speech & Inquiry Are Great!: Some of My Thoughts

Oftentimes today we see people writing about who-knows-who: someone they refuse to name; therefore, we...

September 09, 2025

Did Catholics Kill 100 Million in the Inquisition?

This is the transcript of the video, Catholic Inquisition Myths Busted by Real Historians...

September 08, 2025

15 “Roman Catholic” Views of C. S. Lewis (Transcript)

This is the transcript of the 11-minute video of the same name, posted on...

September 05, 2025

Can Atheists Be Saved? YES! (Possibly Some . . .)

Summary: Salvation comes through Jesus Christ's sacrifice. But does one have to know about...

August 2025

August 30, 2025

Vs. Gavin Ortlund: St. Augustine Rejected Sola Scriptura

Summary: I take issue with Baptist apologist Gavin Ortlund who claims that St. Augustine...

August 24, 2025

C. S. Lewis: Biggest Fan of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

Summary: Were it not for the constant enthusiastic encouragement of C. S. Lewis, J....

August 18, 2025

“New” Mass: 10 Proofs of its Ancient Roots

Summary: I delve into liturgical history and document that, surprisingly, the "New" Pauline "ordinary"...

August 17, 2025

Binding Authority of Oral Tradition

Summary: I examine the many evidences for oral tradition in the New Testament, explain...

August 15, 2025

Vs. Ortlund: Widespread Image Veneration Before 500 AD

Contra Reformed Baptist Apologist Gavin Ortlund; Including the Opinions of Protestant Historians Philip Schaff and...

August 14, 2025

Pray for the Dead? Calvin says NO, Bible says YES

Summary: John Calvin absurdly claimed that there wasn't a single "syllable" in the Bible about...

August 11, 2025

Icons: Gavin Ortlund’s 500-Year Absence Claim Refuted

Summary: Reformed Baptist apologist Gavin Ortlund claimed that there is zero evidence of any...

August 09, 2025

Interview: the Vocation of the Catholic Apologist

I replied to interview questions from my friend Michael Lee, a former Anglican pastor,...

August 06, 2025

Introduction: 100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura

For purchase ($12.99 paperback, $9.99 Kindle), see the Amazon page. For further information, Table...

August 06, 2025

Biblical Evidences for the Oral Torah

What Moses was commanded to teach to the ancient Hebrews is not identical to...

August 05, 2025

Jesus’ Prayer for Peter (Luke 22) & Indefectibility

Luke 22:31-32 (RSV) “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift...

July 2025

July 26, 2025

Is the Catholic Definition of “Christian” Deceptive?

Vs. "TurretinFan": Including Some "Reminiscing" About Past Interactions with the Major Anti-Catholic Apologists Online ...

July 25, 2025

Are All Protestants “Saved”? (“TurretinFan” Insanity)

The anonymous Calvinist "TurretinFan" (a lawyer in his day job) may be the most...

July 25, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #17: Mary Mediatrix

Norman L. Geisler (1932 – 2019) was an American evangelical Protestant theologian, philosopher, and apologist....

July 24, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #16: Mary’s Assumption

Including: Espousal by Earliest Protestants; Scriptural Arguments; St. John Henry Cardinal Newman's Reflections Norman...

July 24, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #15: Immaculate Conception

Including: Early Protestant Proponents; The Surprisingly Multi-Faceted Biblical Case Norman L. Geisler (1932 – 2019)...

July 23, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #14: Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

Including Protestant Reformers & Aquinas On In Partu Virginity; Biblical Data on Jesus' "Brothers" ...

July 22, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #13: Church & Ecclesiology

Including Authority in the Church; Paul the "Lone Ranger"?; Apostolic Succession: Five Biblical Proofs ...

July 21, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #12: Baptismal Regeneration

Including: Did Paul Refuse to Baptize Because it Was Contrary to the Gospel?; Meaning of...

July 19, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #11: Seven Sacraments

Norman L. Geisler (1932 – 2019) was an American evangelical Protestant theologian, philosopher, and apologist....

July 18, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #10: “Faith Alone” 2

Including Sacraments, Grace, & Salvation; Protestants & Salvation Through Baptism & the Eucharist Norman...

July 17, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #9: “Faith Alone” 1

Including Luther's Qualified "Faith Alone"; Catholic Soteriology Accurately Presented; Meritorious Works; Bible vs. "Faith Alone"...

July 16, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #8: Papal Infallibility

Includes Anti-Infallibilist George Salmon; "Vicar of Christ"; "Holy Father"; "Supreme Pontiff"; Is Galileo a Catholic...

July 15, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #7: Sola Scriptura 2 (Fathers)

Norman L. Geisler (1932 – 2019) was an American evangelical Protestant theologian, philosopher, and apologist....

July 11, 2025

Vs. Geisler on Catholicism #6: Sola Scriptura 1

Including Inscripturation; 2 Timothy 3:16; Is Only the Bible Inspired?; Oral Torah Norman L....

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