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Justification
Does James Contradict Paul in James 2:24?
Does Paul only Mean Ceremonial Works When He Says "Not by Works of the Law?"
Does the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification Mean that Lutherans and Roman Catholics Now Agree?
Is Salvation Past, Present, or Future?
How Does Justification Relate to the Daily Need for Forgiveness?
How Does Faith Save?
If We Are Saved by Faith Alone, Why Do We Need to do Good Works?
What is the Great Exchange?
What Does Romans 4 Teach About Sola Fide?
What Did the Council of Trent Teach About Justification?
Did the Church Fathers Teach Sola Fide?
Do the Lutherans and the Reformed have Different Doctrines of Justification?
What is Objective Justification?
What Role do Good Works Play at the Final Judgment?
Sacraments
What are Means of Grace?
What is a Sacrament?
Do the Sacraments Work Ex Opera Operato?
The Lord's Supper
Is the Eucharist a Sacrifice?
What is the Difference Between the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Doctrine of Eucharistic Sacrifice?
Do Lutherans Believe in Consubstantiation?
What Does 1 Corinthians Teach About the Lord's Supper?
How Should we Interpret the Words of Institution?
Is Belief in the Real Presence Cannibalism?
What is the Consecrationism/Receptionism Debate?
Is an Online Eucharist Valid?
Baptism
Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?
Is Baptismal Regeneration Salvation by Works?
How Does Baptism Relate to my Daily Need for Forgiveness?
What is Regeneration?
What Does the Old Testament Say About Baptism?
Is Baptism Magic?
How Does Baptismal Regeneration Make Sense of the Book of Acts if Faith Comes First?
Does 1 Corinthians 1:17 Disprove Baptismal Regeneration?
Is Baptism a Work?
What About the Thief on the Cross?
Is there a Difference Between Roman Catholic and Lutheran Views of Baptism?
What Would Make a Baptism Invalid?
Is Regeneration Always Through Baptism?
Can Someone Be Saved Without Baptism?
What Are Some Good Books to Read About Baptism?
What are some Proofs that Baptism Saves?
Infant Baptism
Can Infants Believe?
What Does the Bible Teach About Infant Baptism?
What are Five Reasons to Believe in Infant Baptism?
Were the Church Fathers Credo Baptists? (long)
Absolution
Can Pastors Forgive Sins?
Roman Catholicism
Are the Solas of the Reformation Novel?
Is Union Between Rome and Lutherans Possible?
Do Miracles Prove that Rome is the True Church?
Did Jesus Found the Roman Catholic Church?
How did Roman Catholics Contribute to Secularism?
What Are Some Reasons Not to Be Roman Catholic?
Are Roman Catholics Brothers and Sisters in Christ?
Law and Gospel
What is the Distinction Between Law and Gospel?
What are the Three Uses of the Law?
Does Preaching Always Need to Follow a Law-Gospel Structure?
What is the Third Use of the Law?
Is the Law-Gospel Distinction the Same as Republication?
Ordo Salutis
What is the
Ordo Salutis
?
Why Does the
Ordo Salutis
Matter? (long)
What is the Lutheran Doctrine of Glorification? (long)
What is the Lutheran View of Salvation?
Theosis
What is the Mystical Union? (long)
What is Christification?
Church and State
What is the Difference Between the Two Kingdoms and the Three Estates?
What is the Difference Between Escondido Theology and Lutheran Two Kingdom Theology? (long)
What is the Difference Between Augustine's Two Cities and Luther's Two Kingdoms? (long)
What is the Lutheran Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms? (long)
What are the Duties of the Christian Ruler? (long)
How Does God Relate to Economics? (long)
End Times
Were the Church Fathers all Premillennial?
What is the Millennium in Scripture?
What is the Lutheran View of the End Times?
What Does Scripture Teach About the Rapture?
Eastern Orthodoxy
What is the Difference Between Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodoxy?
What are some Reasons not to be Eastern Orthodox?
Perseverance
Can a True Christian Fall Away from the Faith?
What Does John 15 Teach About Apostasy?
Spiritual Gifts
What are some Problems with the Charismatic Movement?
The Medieval Church
What is Scholasticism?
The Existence of God
What is Thomas Aquinas's First Argument for the Existence of God?
What is Wrong with the God of the Gaps Argument?
How Do Christians Respond to Dawkins's Ultimate Boeing 747 Argument?
Latter Day Saints
What is Wrong with the Mormon View of God?
Is the Book of Abraham Fake?
What is the Adam God Teaching?
The Trinity
What is the Eternal Subordination Debate?
What are Biblical Proofs of Christ's Divinity?
Was the Son Separated from the Father on the Cross?
What does the Bible Teach on the Trinity? (long)
The Old Testament
Does the Old Testament Support Abortion?
(long)
Is the God of the Old Testament Immoral? (long)
Do the Prohibitions Against Eating Shellfish Apply Today?
Is the Conquest of Canaan Ethically Justifiable?
Who Were the Nephilim?
The New Testament
What is the New Perspective on Paul?
What is the Distinction Between Homologoumena and Antilogoumena?
How Does Paul use the Term "Law"?
Is Romans 7 About Paul's Christian Life?
Sola Scriptura
What Exactly is Sola Scriptura?
Why Believe in Sola Scriptura?
Does the Canon of Scripture Prove the Authority of the Roman Catholic Church?
Does Sola Scriptura Mean that Christians Don't Need Any Other Authorities?
What Does 2 Timothy 3:16 Say About Sola Scriptura?
Is the Bible Inerrant?
Martin Luther
Did Martin Luther Remove Books from the Bible?
Is Luther's Theology Different From Lutheran Theology?
Was Martin Luther Anti-Semitic?
Was Martin Luther a Mystic?
What Are Some Common Roman Catholic Myths About Lutheranism?
Was Martin Luther a Nominalist?
Did Martin Luther Cause Secularism? (long)
What is the Luther and Zwingli Debate?
Philip Melanchthon
What was Melanchthon's Role in the Reformation?
Did Melanchthon Depart from Luther's Theology?
Tradition
What is the Relationship Between Scripture and Tradition? (long)
Predestination
What is the Lutheran View of Predestination?
Are Lutherans Arminian?
Do We Have Free Will?
Are Lutherans Inconsistent Monergists?
Why Do Some Persevere in the Faith and Not Others?
What is Prevenient Grace?
Is God's Only Concern His Own Glory?
Did Martin Luther Teach Double Predestination?
Does Regeneration Precede Faith?
How Can Lutherans Affirm Monergism and Resistible Grace at the Same Time?
How Do Lutherans View the Five Points of Calvinism?
What is the Lutheran Doctrine of Conversion and Election? (long)
Did Augustine Teach Double Predestination?
What is Hyper Calvinism?
What is the Infralapsarian/Supralapsarian Debate?
What is Wrong With Provisionism? (long)
Assurance
What Does 1 John Teach About Assurance?
What Does Matthew 7 Teach About Assurance?
What Does it Mean to Examine Yourself?
What is the Foundation of Christian Assurance?
How Do You Know if Your Child is a Christian?
What is the Difference Between Lutheran and Reformed Views of Assurance?
Atonement
Do Lutherans Believe in Penal Substitution?
Are Some Views of the Atonement Based on Wrong Trinitarian Theology?
What does the Bible Teach on Limited Atonement?
Does 1 Timothy 2:4 Teach Limited Atonement?
Does 2 Peter 2:1 Teach Limited Atonement?
Was the Son Separated from the Father on the Cross?
Church Fathers
Did the Church Fathers Teach Sola Gratia?
What is Wrong With Patristic Proof-Texting?
Did the Church Fathers Teach Apostolic Succession?
Were the Church Fathers All Premillennial?
Were the Church Fathers All Synergists?
Is Origen a Saint or a Heretic?
Did the Church Fathers Teach Sola Fide? (long)
How did the Church Fathers Read John 3?
Where Should I Start Reading the Church Fathers?
The Holy Ministry
Do Lutherans Ordain Women?
Do Lutherans Have Valid Holy Orders? (Long)
Can Women be Pastors? (Long)
Should You Call Your Pastor "Father?"
What is Apostolic Succession?
Worship
Why Use Liturgy in Worship?
Should Christians Venerate Images?
How Are Worship Styles and Theology Related?
Why do Pastors Wear Collars?
Why Use Images in Worship?
What are the Benefits of Liturgical Worship?
How do you Pray the Lutheran Rosary?
Why Observe the Season of Lent?
What is the Regulative Principle of Worship?
The Lutheran Church
What Are Common Myths About Lutheranism?
Why the Lutheran Reformation Rather than other Protestant Branches?
What Are Common Myths from Roman Catholics About Lutheranism?
Are Lutherans Protestant?
Do Lutherans Believe in Covenant Theology?
What is Pietism?
What is the Difference Between the LCMS and WELS?
What Lutheran Books Should I Read?
What is the Book of Concord?
What is the Difference Between the AALC and LCMS?
What are Some Differences Among Lutherans?
What are the Best Lutheran Systematic Theology Texts?
Are Lutherans Too Divided?
The Reformed Church
What is the Federal Vision?
What is Covenant Theology?
What is the Role of Reason in Reformed Theology?
Is the New Calvinism Dead?
Saints
What's Wrong with Prayer to Saints? (long)
Did the Early Christians Pray to Saints? (long)
How do you Respond to Common Arguments in favor of Prayer to Saints?
Is Revelation 12 About Mary?
Sanctification
What are the Two Kinds of Righteousness?
What are Some Good Books on Sanctification?
What is the Lutheran Doctrine of Good Works? (long)
What is Infused Righteousness?
What is Entire Sanctification?
The Papacy
Why do Lutherans Reject the Papacy? (long)
What is Wrong with the Argument for Magisterial Authority? (long)
The Christian Life
Are Christians Required to Tithe?
What Does "Judge Not" Mean?
Do Christians Have to go to Church?
Should Christians Use Offensive Language?
Should Christians Censor What they Watch?
How Should Christians Treat Mental Health Issues?
What Should the Devotional Life Look Like? (long)
The Incarnation
Does the Incarnation Negate Divine Immutability?
Did Jesus Have a Fallen Nature?
Attributes of God
What are Classical Theism and Theistic Personalism?
Two Natures of Christ
Is Christ's Human Nature Omnipresent?
What are some Biblical Proofs that Jesus is God?
What is the Difference Between Lutheran and Reformed Christology?
Scholasticism
Can Lutherans be Scholastics?
What is Protestant Scholasticism?
What is Luther's View of the Distinction Between Philosophical and Theological Truths?
What is Luther's View of the Relationship Between Philosophy and Law?
What are the Different Lutheran Approaches to Scholasticism?
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