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July 2026

July 17, 2026

Biblical Perspicuity: Absurd Anti-Catholic “Defense”

"Perspicuity" is a fancy word for "clear." Yesterday (7-16-26) I posted my article, 50 Biblical...

July 16, 2026

50 Biblical Disproofs of “Evident Clearness” of the Bible

. . . One of the Key Tenets of Sola Scriptura, and the Protestant Rule...

June 2026

June 23, 2026

Perspicuity & Denominationalism (vs. Javier Perdomo)

Javier Perdomo is a Lutheran apologist and YouTuber. He wrote a very in-depth tract on...

March 2025

March 13, 2025

Is Scripture Totally Clear? (vs. Anglican Stearns #2)

+ the Church Fathers (Especially St. Augustine) on the Question of the Perspicuity (Clearness in...

October 2022

October 12, 2022

Is Sola Scriptura Self-Refuting? (vs. Bruno Lima)

[book and purchase information] Bruno Lima is a Brazilian Calvinist (and anti-Catholic) writer and apologist....

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Reply to Lucas Banzoli: 2 Tim 3:16 & Sola Scriptura

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

May 05, 2022

Sola Scriptura (vs. “Barely Protestant” Anglican Priest)

The Barely Protestant YouTube channel is run by an Anglican priest, Fr. James, who apparently...

May 05, 2022

Reply to Collin Brooks on Sola Scriptura

Collin Brooks runs the YouTube channel, Resisting the Winds: dedicated to helping Christians resist every...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Reply to Mike Winger on Sola Scriptura

Pastor Mike Winger is the featured teacher of BibleThinker online ministry. He graduated from the...

April 29, 2022

Augustine & Sola Scriptura, Pt. 2 (vs. Gavin Ortlund)

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as the...

April 28, 2022

Augustine & Sola Scriptura (vs. Gavin Ortlund)

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as...

April 27, 2022

Reply to Gavin Ortlund’s “Sola Scriptura Defended”

Gavin Ortlund is an author, speaker, and apologist for the Christian faith, who serves as...

April 25, 2022

Is Sola Scriptura Biblical? (vs. Jordan B. Cooper)

Rev. Dr. Jordan B. Cooper is a Lutheran pastor, adjunct professor of Systematic Theology, Executive...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

Sola Scriptura as Defined by Historic Protestantism

[book and purchase information] Martin Luther (1483-1546) This is my answer to those also who...

December 14, 2021

Sola Scriptura: Self-Refuting? (vs. Steve Hays)

[book and purchase information] This is a classic apologetics issue between Catholics and Orthodox on...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

“Difficulty” in Understanding the Bible: Hebrew Cultural Factors

It's a very common motif in anti-theist atheist polemics, to say that the Bible appears...

January 2021

January 04, 2021

Seidensticker Folly #69: “Difficulties” Aren’t Contradictions

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts...

December 2019

December 03, 2019

Perspicuity (Clearness) of Scripture (vs. Wm. Whitaker)

William Whitaker (1548-1595) was a Calvinist Anglican apologist and Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. His...

November 2019

November 07, 2019

Rome, the Biblical Canon, & Tradition (vs. Turretinfan & James White)

. . . Observed in the Views of John of Damascus (aka John Damascene: c....

May 2018

May 10, 2018

Why “Bible Difficulties” Should be Fully Expected

An atheist mentioned Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties and commented, "How could God’s word have...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

OT Levites & Priests: Closer to Sola Scriptura or Catholicism?

(4-9-06) *** The original 2006 version of this material was a very lengthy dialogue with...

November 13, 2017

David T. King Ignores Sola Scriptura Biblical Disproofs

Including a Lengthy Analysis of 2 Peter 1:20: "no prophecy of scripture is a matter...

September 2017

September 05, 2017

Sola Scriptura and Private Judgment Are Logically Circular

Image by Chris Searle (9-29-15) [Flickr / Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)] * *...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

Atheist Deconversion: Dialogue #2: Jonathan MS Pearce

Image by "mary1826" (January 2017) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Jonathan MS Pearce runs...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Review of “The Book of Non-Contradiction” (Phillip Campbell)

[Amazon image] *** The full title of this book is, The Book of Non-Contradiction: Harmonizing the...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

“Moses’ Seat” & Jesus vs. Sola Scriptura (vs. James White)

The Pharisees and the Sadducees Come to Tempt Jesus, by James Tissot (1836-1902) [public domain...

February 15, 2017

Levites & Old Covenant System vs. Sola Scriptura

Moses and the Brazen Serpent (1640), by Adriaen van Nieulandt (c. 1586-1658) [public domain / Wikimedia...

February 14, 2017

Sola Scriptura is Self-Defeating & False if Not in the Bible

vs. Kevin Johnson A diagram of how arms form in spiral galaxies. Authors: User:Dbenbenn / User:Mysid...

February 14, 2017

Sola Scriptura, the Old Testament, & Ancient Jewish Practice

Ezra Reads the Law to the People (Neh. 8:1-12), by Gustave Doré (1832-1883) [public domain

January 2017

January 14, 2017

Dialogue on Authoritative Bible Interpretation in the NT

vs. Reformed Baptist Elder Jim Drickamer The Baptism of the Eunuch (1623), by Pieter Lastman...

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