Did Jesus Bodily Rise if He Appeared in the Flesh?: Jehovah's Witnesses claim that Jesus was resurrected as a spirit only (not a bodily resurrection) since He appeared in a locked room, and if He was in the flesh He couldn't have done that. What are your thoughts in response to this?

Q&A question: Did Jesus Bodily Rise if He Appeared in the Flesh?

Response of the crowd

Jesus response

Response of Unbelief

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How Salvation Works in Roman Catholicism

Why Calvinism Is Unbiblical

If You Can Fall Away It Makes Sense that There Are Two Stages of Salvation

Stage One Initial Salvation

Defense of Baptismal Regeneration

The Defense of the Roman Catholic View from Trent Horn

Luke 16

A Man Is Justified by Faith Apart from the Deeds of the Law

Nine Problems with Defining Merit as Not Earned

The Merit of Good Works Is To Be Attributed in the First Place to the Grace of God and Then to the Faithful

The Merit of Man before God in the Christian Life Arises from the Fact that God Is Freely Chosen to Associate Man with the Work of His Grace

There Is no Second Works-Based Stage in the Process of Salvation

The Light Analogy

Trent Horn's Response

Romans 11 6

Romans 9 through 11

Canon 24

If Anyone Says that the Justice Received Is Not Preserved and Also Not Increased before God through Good Works but that those Works Are Merely the Fruits and Signs of Justification Obtained but Not the Cause of Its Increase

Philippians 2 12 Verse

Two Stages of Salvation

God Is Not Mocked

Galatians Three

Trent Horn's Explanation of Galatians

Galatians Verse

A note left on Winger's car in response to his "Former Embryo on Board" bumper sticker argued that abortion is justified when a parent can't provide love, financial support, or a non-abusive home. Winger uses this as a case study in pro-choice reasoning, arguing its logic is genocidal because it ties human value to external conditions rather than inherent worth.

The bumper sticker note as a test case for examining pro-choice reasoning

There are two distinct groups who identify Jesus with Michael the Archangel: (1) Jehovah's Witnesses who use it to demote Jesus to a created being (heresy), and (2) orthodox Christians like Spurgeon, Calvin, and Wesley who identify Michael as a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ without denying his deity (an in-house disagreement). These require different responses.

Two types of Jesus-Michael identification; distinguishing heresy from in-house disagreement

David Hume's objection — that miracles are by definition the least plausible explanation because they go against uniform experience — is circular: it uses the rarity of miracles to discount all testimony to miracles, then cites the lack of accepted testimony to miracles as proof they don't happen. Paley's response: if God raises Jesus specifically to vindicate his messianic claim, we would not expect that resurrection to be a repeatable event — so non-repetition is not evidence against it.

Hume's objection to miracles and Paley's response; the circularity in Hume's argument

When confronted with failed predictions, the rapture-date community's response is to circle the wagons, claim victimhood ("we're being mocked"), and accuse critics of having a "Jezebel spirit." Winger identifies this as classic cult dynamics: insulation from correction, victim mentality, and shielding leaders from accountability through demonization of outsiders.

Cult-like dynamics in the rapture prediction community: victim narratives and Jezebel accusations