Note: I am fully aware that I used different pronunciations for σῳζομένοις a few times. I’m a Southerner. I barely speak English well. You should hear me speaking French 🙂 As with last week, I am going to […]
Two Sundays ago, I preached on the Importance of a Pro-Life Ethic as part of my Why Theology Matters series that I have been doing at Sophia since the start of 2025. No sooner did I preach this […]
A friend on X asked me to help explain the Greek of John 1:1. The Greek for John 1:1 is “Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος.” I […]
Have you ever heard of the “את Cepher”? If not, then let me be the first to introduce you to what I consider a massive mess masquerading as a Bible — even though the publishers nonsensically don’t call […]
Anti-Calvinists typically argue that “in him” in Ephesians 1:4 means that election is conditionally based on foreseen faith in Christ. This is what the poster in the image below was asserting. However, this is not the Calvinism killer […]
There are roughly 3,036 textual differences between Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the Gospels:Matthew: 656Mark: 597Luke: 791John: 1022 70-80% of these differences are due to the presence or absence of the movable nu. The movable nu is a grammatical […]
In this fourth part of my “What is Calvinism” series, I want to address the doctrine of Limited Atonement or Particular Redemption. Some of you have asked why I didn’t begin with Total Depravity and then work my […]
A KJVO pastor emailed me and asked me the following: Is Matthew 5:18 in the ESV true? ‘…not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law…’ – I ask this because it’s my understanding that punctuation […]
Penal Substitutionary Atonement Defended As a Key to Understanding Calvinism and Limited Atonement – What is Calvinism Series In this third video in my series on Calvinism, I will discuss and defend the death of Christ as a […]
I had the opportunity to teach debate to an ethics class made up of seniors at a local Christian school today. As part of the class, Nathan Burris and I had a condensed (50-minutes) moderated debate on “The […]