According to Roman Catholicism, the bread and wine of the communion meal become the actual flesh and blood of Jesus' human body at the moment the priest blesses them during the Mass. This doctrine is known as "transubstantiation." Roman Catholic's sometimes defend...
Articles written by Luke Wayne
Should Christians pray to God through images of Jesus, angels, and saints?
In Roman Catholicism, it is a common practice to direct prayers toward images of Jesus or the crucifix, as well as images of saints, angels, and the Virgin Mary. One common defense of this practice is to claim that such prayers are not really offered to the image...
Transubstantiation and John 6:51-55
The Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation teaches that the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper literally (though invisibly) transform into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus' human body. These elements are thus considered proper objects of worship, as they...
Does 1 Thessalonians 4:16 prove that Jesus is Michael the Archangel?
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus is Michael the Archangel, whom they claim was God's first creation and the highest of all the "spirit creatures," or angelic beings. To argue for this teaching, they point to 1 Thessalonians 4:16, which says: "For the Lord Himself...
Do the words of Jesus have more authority than the rest of Scripture?
It has become popular to treat the words that Jesus said in the gospels as especially inspired to the neglect of the rest of Scripture. There are many professing Christians today who are willing to shrug off the plain teachings of Paul, Peter, or the prophets on a...
The Trinity before Nicea
It is a consistent assertion of many critics of biblical Christianity that Christians before the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. did not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. Conspiracy theories abound where this council (or Constantine, the Roman Emperor of that time)...
Does the Trinity contradict monotheism?
No, the doctrine of the Trinity does not contradict monotheism. In fact, the doctrine of the Trinity, by definition, asserts that there is only one God. The doctrine of the Trinity does not teach that there are three gods, but rather one God who exists as three...