What is the doctrine of “faith alone,” and how did Martin Luther come to articulate it? What was he experiencing in his own life as a Catholic monk that led
Jesus commissioned his followers to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But why? If Baptism is merely a symbolic act that has no saving effect,
In their Evangelical backgrounds, Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley didn’t believe that Baptism had any sacramental effect; for them, it was just a way to testify to their fellow Christians
The question of the meaning of Baptism has been a great source of debate among Christians since the Reformation. Even Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley in their previous Christian traditions,
Over the past several episodes, Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley have taken a look at several aspects of the core Reformation doctrine of sola Scriptura. Is it Scriptural? Is it
One of the core beliefs of Martin Luther at the start of the Reformation was that each individual Christian should have a right of private judgment when it comes to
A question that bothers even many adherents of sola Scriptura is this: if the Bible alone is to be the sole rule of faith, and any individual Christian can understand
The doctrine of sola Scriptura was one of the battle cries of the Continental Reformation. But is there evidence that it was practiced and taught in the first centuries of
If sola Scriptura is meant to be the guiding principle of Christianity, then why did it take nearly 400 years for the canon of the New Testament to be formally
What passages from the Bible give the strongest support for the doctrine of sola Scriptura? As Protestants, Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley would have pointed directly to the example of
Does the Bible teach sola Scriptura over and against Christian tradition? Or is sola Scriptura itself one of the “traditions of men” that Scripture warns against? As Evangelical Christians, both
The controversies surrounding the doctrine of sola Scriptura highlight a fundamental difference in the way that Protestants and Catholics think about a basic question: what is the nature of Christian
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