Bill Pratt | July 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I find that many non-believers are hopelessly confused about salvation by God’s grace. This confusion was amply illustrated the other day on an Unbelievable? podcast when the atheist debater challenged the Christian debater with the following: “Isn’t it true that the Christian God would have allowed Hitler into heaven if he [...]
Bill Pratt | December 24, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt According to church historian John Hannah, there were four major Protestant streams that developed during the Reformation in the 16th century: Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anabaptism. Each of these streams placed great stress on the idea of salvation by faith alone, yet they did not all agree on what infant baptism [...]
Bill Pratt | December 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt You would think this question would be pretty easy to answer because the gospel message is something that Christians talk about all the time. However, it is difficult to find the gospel explained in one place within the Bible. There is, however, one passage where the gospel is defined, and that [...]
Bill Pratt | June 14, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have written on this, one of the most popular questions posed to Christians, in a few different posts and in comments. Having said that, I have never answered the question in a systematic and thorough manner. Recently I ran across the best, the most thorough answer to this question I’ve [...]
Bill Pratt | April 2, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt This question first came to a dramatic head in the church in the fifth and sixth centuries. There were four main protagonists. Augustine of Hippo argued that salvation is totally and causatively of God’s grace. A contemporary of Augustine, Pelagius, argued that salvation is totally and causatively of man’s free will. [...]
Bill Pratt | December 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I say “yes.” I believe that God does give every person a chance to be saved. Why do I believe this? All men are given the chance to accept or reject God because God loves all men and desires all men to come to him. According to 2 Pet. 3:9, “The [...]
Bill Pratt | November 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most remarkable lectures I heard at the apologetics conference last weekend was a Friday morning session with Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College. Kreeft is a highly respected Catholic scholar who has taught at BC for many years and written more than 60 books. Kreeft’s lecture [...]
Bill Pratt | October 17, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve touched on this topic before, but it continues to interest me, so I thought I would cover some new ground on this important section of the New Testament. Context, when reading any passage of the Bible, is crucial to understanding it. When we look at the context of Romans 9-11, [...]
Bill Pratt | September 26, 2009
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Bill Pratt | September 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent post, I mentioned some of the speakers at an upcoming apologetics conference sponsored by Southern Evangelical Seminary. One blog commenter noticed that Catholic speakers were being featured at the event and argued that they should not be. He believes that Catholics are not Christians, and therefore cannot properly [...]
