The expression "from ... youth" is a Hebraism - a Hebrew expression we find in lots of places in the Old and New Testaments.  It g...

I came across the following statement, which immediately sparked my interest ( source ): Speculation on the proper date began in the 3rd and...

I was recently directed to some questions about Sin, Satan, and Satan's fall. Did Satan exist before Adam and Eve? How and when did h...

The Orthodox Research Institute has published an English translation of the first discourse of Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on the B...

We are sometimes told that the doctrine of original sin is exclusively a Western idea. The primary basis of this claim is that it is August...

In a recent speech ( link ), Dawkins has attempted to criticize the Roman Catholic Church. Dawkins began by pointing out that contrary to th...

I recently received an email from someone who was trying to argue that Augustine "clearly" taught that Mary was immaculate conceiv...

I happened to come across an alleged Biblical contradiction. The alleged contradiction is explained thus: Let's set up the problem clea...

The following is a two-part video response to Kerrigan Skelly on Original Sin and Psalm 58:3. Mr. Skelly challenges Calvinists to exegete t...

Introduction Some folks who hold to a nearly dogmatic form of rugged individualism do not like the idea of federal headship, especially when...

Recently a poster over Steve Gregg's forum, using the handle "Homer," suggested (it seems, he was a bit oblique) that if Roman...

A poster at Steve Gregg's forum, using the handle "Suzana" made an interesting argument in favor of the supposed innocence of ...

One reader ("Orthodox") asked: So why did Adam sin? Because God made him bad? Adam ate the forbidden fruit because he listened to...

An anonymous poster provided some comments regarding this earlier post on the natural depravity of children ( link ). The comments by the a...