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Answers for same-sex marriage apologist Matthew Vines.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • July 7, 2015 • Apologetics; Exegesis; LGBT Issues; Moral Theology

Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian—in which Mr. Vines claims to give the “biblical case in support of same-sex relationships” — recently posted “40 Questions for Christians Who Oppose Marriage Equality.” “Too often,” Mr. Vines laments, “LGBT-affirming Christians are the only ones asked to explain and defend their views. But there are many pressing questions that non-affirming Christians frequently do not address.” Oh, well, then! These questions have never been answered before! Let me correct this oversight.

Remember Lot’s Wife.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • June 29, 2015 • Exegesis; In the News; LGBT Issues; Moral Theology

It is not marriage, what five people forced upon us all on Friday, and can not be marriage any more than a square can be round or a hexagon rectangular. What five people — a majority by one — forced upon us all on Friday was a game of make-believe, a lie. Words mean things, and marriage is not just a social arrangement entered into by any two people who may choose. Marriage is ontological, rooted in God’s design of the human person for unity and procreation. Man was not designed to fit with man, nor woman with woman; and we may not design our own reality.

Frank Bruni, of New York Times, hectors Christians: “Bow to the enlightenments of modernity!”

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • April 9, 2015 • Apologetics; Exegesis; LGBT Issues; Moral Theology; Politics

Mr. Bruni starts off, as do most leftists who will have their own way, with a pompous and condescending sneer: I’m here to free you, you poor benighted silly little thing, from that needless little bitty blue blanket you cling to. There now, isn’t it better now that you don’t have to carry that foolish heavy burden around? No, you don’t have to thank me. Then, after that haughty and oily display, the leftist comes out of the closet and screams his brownshirt demands: “Bow to the enlightenments of modernity!” Kneel before Zod!

Notre Dame professor Dr. Candida Moss says Jesus “wasn’t down with marriage.”

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • February 2, 2015 • Apologetics; Exegesis

Dr. Candida Moss is all wrought up over the LDS “half-hearted shuffle toward LGBT equality.” Dr. Moss prefers the mad dash over the cliff: When she says “LGBT equality,” what she means is “marriage equality,” in spite of the fact that no one, not even Dr. Moss, believes in any such thing. Would she advocate marrying your dog? a three-year-old child? the exhumed body of King Tut? So let us get this myth of “marriage equality” out of our heads from the start. To define marriage is to limit it, and the real goal is not marriage “equality” but marriage plasticity.

Mr. X struggles with metaphor, transubstantiation, and John 6.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • July 29, 2014 • Apologetics; Exegesis; Transubstantiation

Of late, the anonymous blogger, five-pointer, and crack theologian TurretinFan — known on this blog as Mr. X—has been struggling with the concept of metaphor as it applies to John 6. And a very hard struggle it has been, too. He argues that the expression “this cup is my blood” should be a clear sign that the text is not meant to be taken literally. For not even Roman Catholics will say that the cup itself is Christ’s blood. The poor man apparently needs the help of an English teacher.

Oops! Calvinist pastor Ken Temple appears to say Bible contains mistakes.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 28, 2014 • Apologetics; Exegesis

Do Reformed folks no longer believe in the plenary inspiration of Scripture? Can Pr. inform me? I mean, as grey an anti-Catholic eminence as Loraine Boettner himself was very clear on this point — that to deny the plenary inspiration of Scripture is a Modernist heresy. Once deny plenary inspiration, Boettner says, and there is “no consistent stopping place.” The very words of Scripture themselves are God-breathed! So what does Pr. mean when he says that the “language” of the New Testament on the sacrificial priesthood was a “big mistake”?

Killing Jesus: Could Christ have spoken from the cross?

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • October 6, 2013 • Apologetics; Blind Guides & False Prophets; Book Review; Exegesis; Media Personalities

The best that can be said is that “slow suffocation” is a debated and unsettled question even among medical experts. So why is Mr. O’Reilly certain enough on this point that he can deny Christ’s very words from the Cross? Does he have this revelation from the Holy Ghost? And why would the Holy Ghost inspire Mr. O’Reilly to contradict St. Luke? Did the Holy Ghost mislead Luke? Did Luke mishear the Holy Ghost? Has the Church been mistaken about the infallibility of Luke’s gospel for 2000 years? Should Martin Luther have taken that book out of the canon too?

Mr. Maricle’s ontological error about Mary.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • February 14, 2013 • Apologetics; Exegesis; Marian Dogmas

Mr. Rho may choose to repeat his clichés and sophomoric talking points like vain repetitions that magically make Reformed theology true without the burden or logic or evidence or proof. However many times he chants “Mary is dead” over the beads in his hand, it does not change Jesus’s words in Mark 12:18 – 27. However many times he insists on mocking prayers to Mary, it does not change the fact that she is alive in heaven. The supernatural is a different category of being than the natural. Communication does not take place the same way.

The apostles are also θεόπνευστος, Dr.* White.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 31, 2013 • Apologetics; Exegesis

A reader with the improbable name of “Rooney” dares to dispute my claim that the Greek word theopneustos applies as much to John 20:21 – 23. My point, from an earlier comment in the same thread, was that Dr.* James White (Th.D., D.Min., etc., etc.) is wrong to say that the Scriptures alone are “God-breathed.” He may say it until he runs out of breath — for that seems to be his goal — but he will still be wrong. As evidence, I quoted this singular passage from John, wherein Christ appears to the disciples after the Resurrection and breathes on them.

Baptism now saves you; remember your baptism.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 14, 2013 • Apologetics; Exegesis; Liturgical Year; Sacraments

God has a remarkable proclivity for accomplishing his work through the material things of this earth – but foremost among them, possibly, is water. At the very beginning of creation, God is said to be “moving over the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2). Before God has created anything specific or concrete, water exists. He creates the “heavens and the earth,” but as yet they are “without form and void.” They are just the raw materials, created ex nihilo. But there is water; when God says, “let there be light,” his spirit is upon the waters.