Eschatology: The Sixty-Two Weeks

In “A Decree to Rebuild” I said this… …in response to Ed Hurst’s blog post on Daniel 9. Well, I was subsequently reading Ed Hurst’s commentary on Daniel and came across this comment: Some traditional explanations are that the beginning of the exile was in 587BC or 586BC, when Nebuchadnezzar II …

Rebellion and Authority

Per “The Christ : Church :: Husband : Wife Analogy” (2022-08-29) at Sigma Frame, in the home, children submit to the wife, who submits to the husband, who submits to Christ. In that same article in the church, women submit to men, who submit to Christ. But in the Orthodox, Catholic, …

Should Man Woo Woman?

Back in 2018 there was a discussion on Wintery Knight asking “Is it the Man’s Responsibility to Pursue the Woman, or the Other Way Around?” It was based on a discussion raised by Saint Dalrock and Messiah Cane Caldo, who suggested that women are supposed to woo men. Dalrock had …

Too Slow To React In Time

Recently, I was watching this Dividing Lines podcast with James White. White has been saying for some time that the Roman Catholic pope Francis is at least an inclusivist (i.e. you don’t need explicit faith in Jesus Christ to be saved: any faith move towards God counts as implicit faith …

Sola Scriptura

Let’s look at those four things, shall we? But before we do that, let’s build start with question 0. Question 0 I start with this question because like all metaphysical presumptions, it’s more important than the four questions he explicitly asked. Recall what I wrote: John C. Wright claimed that …

Sacraments, Part 2: Tertullian

In “The Eucharist, Part 9: Tertullian” (2024-04-06), we discussed how Tertullian was the first early church writer to refer—in the first decade of the third century—to baptism and thanksgiving as sacraments. He did so a century before anyone else did, so his writings constitute the most important evidence. Consider the new …