Friday, October 2, 2020

Articles refuting Reachout Trust and Tony Brown on The Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation

 

Reachout Trust, headed by Mike Thomas, have been hosting a series of articles by Protestant apologist Tony Brown on the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation on their Bride of Reason blog. As of writing, there are 4 entries, mainly dealing with Sola Fide and Sola Scriptura. To compare and contrast Brown’s eisegesis (which is required to believe in Protestantism) with the overwhelming exegetical case against Reformation theologies (plural used as there are many formulations of Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, etc., in both historic and modern Protestantism [even focusing just on the conservative wing thereof]) and why Protestantism, in all its forms, is a false gospel (cf. Gal 1:6-9), see:


Against Sola Scriptura


Not By Scripture Alone: A Latter-day Saint Refutation of Sola Scriptura (exegetes all the proof-texts Brown desperately uses/abuses to support Sola Scriptura, such as 1 Cor 4:6 and 2 Tim 3:16-17)


Against Sola Fide, Forensic Justification, Imputed Righteousness, etc




An Examination and Critique of the Theological Presuppositions Underlying Reformed Theology 


On Baptismal Regeneration (related concept as it refutes many of the tenets of a consistent [historical] Protestant theology of salvation):


Refuting Douglas Wilson on Water Baptism and Salvation


On the Perspicuity of the Bible, Baptismal Regeneration in 1 Peter 3:19-21, and a Discussion of Different "Causes"








J. Paul Sampley on Baptismal Regeneration and Ephesians 5:25-27 

Water Baptism being a Spiritual Circumcision and Baptism being Salvific in Colossians 2:11-14

John Greer vs. the biblical doctrine of baptismal regeneration (Greer, at the time of writing this article, was the moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster--texts such as Romans 6 are discussed herein)


The Good Thief on the Cross (cf. Matthew W. Bates on the Thief on the Cross)


No, 1 Clement does not teach Sola Fide (many Protestant apologists [e.g., James White; William Webster; Matt Slick; Matthew Paulson] use 1 Clement to support Sola Fide and also have claimed 1 C Clement does not affirm baptismal regeneration--this article soundly refutes these false charges)


On Christology (always the heart of the matter)


Latter-day Saints have Chosen the True, Biblical Jesus