Tag: Theological Triage
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Bad apologetics does not have the gospel as the goal; it is arguments for argument’s sake. If an apologist spends an hour talking with an unbeliever offering numerous arguments but never gets to the gospel, his priorities are misaligned. The gospel must always be the goal in apologetics. We may…
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While the gospel can be condensed to John 3:16, a good apologist must be able to defend the gospel in all of its glorious fullness. It is extremely difficult to execute theological triage and know when to fall on one’s sword if we hold only an abbreviated form of the…
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Orthodoxy: that which the New Testament calls “sound doctrine” (1 Tim 1:10; 2 Tim 4: 3; Titus 1:9; 2:1) that which rightly reflects in summary form all the teaching of Scripture and which the church is bound to believe and obey. Heterodoxy: Greek meaning a “different belief”, is an opinion…
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There’s an old saying – “There is no doctrine a fundamentalist won’t fight over, and no doctrine a liberal will fight over.” Not every error is a heresy. And when the error we oppose is fatal heresy, the goal should be to heal, not to destroy. Most Christians have a…
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Christian Apologetics 