John 6 Does NOT Support Roman Catholicism Collin Brooks 2024-04-19 | In this video I answer a challenge to prove the Bread of Life Discourse should be read symbolically.
Chosen In Christ? Collin Brooks 2024-06-07 | In this video I provide Reformed response to a Provisionist critique of our interpretation of Ephesians 1 and the idea of being chosen "in Christ."
Calvin on the Descent Clause Collin Brooks 2024-05-08 | In this video I refute the misrepresentations of some Provisionists who claim that John Calvin taught that Jesus suffered in hell after His crucifixion. Calvin taught and believed no such thing.Here you can find my article defending Calvin in the same place on Substitutionary Atonement: https://resistingthewinds.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=webHere are some important quotes to further demonstrate Calvin’s position:“65. What is the meaning of the additional clause: “He descended into hell”?That He not only suffered natural death, which is the separation of the body from the soul, but also that His soul was pierced with amazing anguish, which St. Peter calls the pains of death (Acts 2:24).66. Why and how did that happen to Him?Because He presented Himself to God in order to make satisfaction in the name of sinners, it was necessary that He should suffer fearful distress of conscience, as if He had been forsaken by God, and even as if God had become hostile to Him. It was in this extremity that He cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34).” - Calvin’s Catechism “In John Calvin's Institutes (Book II, Chapter XVI, sections 10-11), Calvin argued that the Creed did not teach that Christ descended to hell locally, but that he suffered the agonies and punishments of hell due to man. Christ did this all his life, but especially in the garden of gethsemane and on the cross, thus making satisfaction for sins by his suffering’…For Calvin, the descent into hell was a metaphor for Christ’s sufferings on the cross. This was how Calvin interpreted passages like Psalm 16:10. In the phrase ‘You will not leave my soul in Sheol,’ ‘my soul’ was understood as a metaphor for the man, and ‘Sheol’ was understood as a metaphor for ‘the grave.’ So, the promise to the Messiah was not relative to a local descent to and resurrection from the dead, but simply a promise of the resurrection of the person from the grave” (Samuel Renihan, Crux Mors Inferi, 107-108).
Why be Roman Catholic? Collin Brooks 2023-06-13 | Here are the videos from @theosophicalwanderings7696 which address the Eliakim Argument:1) youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs0_cPmmxs&t=20s2) youtube.com/watch?v=S1fjAnOKmcc&t=2sAnd here is his refutation of the "we need an infallible interpreter to interpret the Bible" argument: youtube.com/watch?v=F6rkpvV1CNk&t=40sAdditionally, here is @TruthUnites response to Suan's argument as well as his debate with Suan himself. 1) Argument: youtube.com/watch?v=iFBoSvMsoiI2) Debate: youtube.com/watch?v=HWVsYp2TdrE&t=6753sI recommend everyone subscribe to both of their channels!
Should I Quit My Job and Start a House Church? Collin Brooks 2022-12-30 | In this video I discuss the pros and cons of small house churches.
Does Substitutionary Atonement Make God a Monster? Collin Brooks 2022-08-11 | I refute Brian Zahnd's claim that God is a monster for sending His Son to die for sin. In the video I reference a presentation on Satisfaction in church history by Dr. Ortlund which can be viewed here: youtube.com/watch?v=doIAkUycaHM&t=962s
Do Protestants Presuppose Protestantism? A Response to Trent Horn Collin Brooks 2022-04-27 | In this video I explain why I think Trent Horn is wrong about us Protestants allegedly presupposing Protestantism.
Sola Scriptura and Source X Collin Brooks 2022-03-08 | In this video I respond to How to be Christian's response to Dr. Jordan Cooper on Sola Scripture.
A Response to Dr. Jordan Cooper on the Eucharist [BONUS EPISODE] Collin Brooks 2021-09-20 | In this bonus episode of my series critiquing the Lutheran view of the Eucharist, I respond to a video made by Lutheran theologian Dr. Jordan Cooper
Make Apologetics Masculine Again Collin Brooks 2021-08-10 | In this video I share some of Beza's best insults and then make broader applications to the state of apologetics today.
Lutheranism, Eutychianism, and Divinizing the Body of Christ Collin Brooks 2021-08-03 | In the seventh installment of my series compering the Lutheran view of the Lord's Supper to the Reformed view I explain why the Lutheran view forces you to divinize the human nature of Christ, and that we should not do this as it is a condemned heresy.
Propogandas Propoganda Collin Brooks 2021-07-22 | Propoganda tries to convince us the Reformed movement is a racist movement influenced more by the Enlightenment than by Scripture. This is not true.
What Does IS Mean? Collin Brooks 2021-06-22 | In my 6th installment of comparing the Lutheran and Reformed views of the Lord's supper I explain how the word "is" in Jesus' statement "This is my body" can be read figuratively, and I also demonstrate that the literal interpretation harms rather than helps the Lutheran position.Docked boat sound effect can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=6yew2iusNh4
What About the Other Clear Figures of Speech? Collin Brooks 2021-05-31 | In the 5th installment of the Lutheran vs Reformed Views of the Lord's Supper series, I show how figures of speech are undeniably used of the Supper and throughout Scripture.
Why Are All of the Great Theologians Reformed? Collin Brooks 2021-05-19 | In this video, I respond to Dr. Flowers' historical argument pertaining to why all of the great influential theologians have all been Calvinists from the Reformation until now, and whether or not Calvinism tends to attract bullies.
Can Christ Be Consumed by Sinners? Collin Brooks 2021-05-13 | In the 4th installment of the Lutheran vs Reformed Views of the Lord's Supper series, I discuss the problem that the Lutheran position has in believing the unfaithful can partake of Christ and not be saved.
Lutheran vs Reformed Views on the Lords Supper (3): Cannibalism Collin Brooks 2021-04-27 | Lutherans want to have their Body and eat it too...*I do apologize for the distortion of Dr. Cooper's voice. That was not done intentionally.
Lutheran vs Reformed Views on the Lords Supper (2): Bezas Position Collin Brooks 2021-04-14 | In part II of my series working through Beza's book on the Lord's Supper I elaborate more on Beza's own position. The introduction to this series can be watched here: youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0FD239bSZhPJHBWLj6hE8fSgwOEV4JYGs1EdJ6UTZ36RVsPl2mrcWaXJI&v=baGXHS9B1I8&feature=youtu.be
How to be Papist on Romans 4 Collin Brooks 2021-04-06 | In this video, I critique the "How to be Christian" presentation on justification in Romans 4.
Lutheran vs Reformed Views on The Lords Supper (1): Intro, Definitions, the Middle Ground Collin Brooks 2021-03-25 | This is part one of a series on the Lord's Supper where I present the arguments that Theodore Beza presented in treatise against the Lutheran position. In this video I introduce the series, provide important definitions, and finish by offering the first argument in many to come.
Marian Devotion? Collin Brooks 2021-01-26 | I this video I discuss Marian devotion and the Immaculate Conception.Chrysostom on John 19:26-27, "And He, having committed His mother to John, said, Behold your Son. O the honor! With what honor did He honor the disciple! When He Himself was now departing, He committed her to the disciple to take care of. For since it was likely that, being His mother, she would grieve, and require protection, He with reason entrusted her to the beloved. To him He says, Behold your mother. This He said, knitting them together in charity; which the disciple understanding, took her to his own home. But why made He no mention of any other woman, although another stood there? To teach us to pay more than ordinary respect to our mothers. For as when parents oppose us on spiritual matters, we must not even own them, so when they do not hinder us, we ought to pay them all becoming respect, and to prefer them before others, because they begot us, because they bred us up, because they bare for us ten thousand terrible things. And by these words He silences the shamelessness of Marcion; for if He were not born according to the flesh, nor had a mother, wherefore takes He such forethought for her alone?Augustine, "A passage, therefore, of a moral character is here inserted. The good Teacher does what He thereby reminds us ought to be done, and by His own example instructed His disciples that care for their parents ought to be a matter of concern to pious children: as if that tree to which the members of the dying One were affixed were the very chair of office from which the Master was imparting instruction. From this wholesome doctrine it was that the Apostle Paul had learned what he taught in turn, when he said, But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1 Timothy 5:8 And what are so much home concerns to any one, as parents to children, or children to parents? Of this most wholesome precept, therefore, the very Master of the saints set the example from Himself, when, not as God for the hand-maid whom He had created and governed, but as a man for the mother, of whom He had been created, and whom He was now leaving behind, He provided in some measure another son in place of Himself. And why He did so, He indicates in the words that follow: for the evangelist says, And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own, speaking of himself. In this way, indeed, he usually refers to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved: who certainly loved them all, but him beyond the others, and with a closer familiarity, so that He even made him lean upon His bosom at supper; in order, I believe, in this way to commend the more highly the divine excellence of this very gospel, which He was thereafter to preach through his instrumentality.But what was this his own, unto which John took the mother of the Lord? For he was not outside the circle of those who said to Him, Lo, we have left all, and followed You. No, but on that same occasion he had also heard the words, Every one that has forsaken these things for my sake, shall receive an hundred times as much in this world. That disciple, therefore, had an hundredfold more than he had cast away, whereunto to receive the mother of Him who had graciously bestowed it all. But it was in that society that the blessed John had received an hundredfold, where no one called anything his own, but they had all things in common; even as it is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. For the apostles were as if having nothing, and yet possessing all things. How was it, then, that the disciple and servant received unto his own the mother of his Lord and Master, where no one called anything his own? Or, seeing we read a little further on in the same book, For as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of them, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need, are we not to understand that such distribution was made to this disciple of what was needful, that there was also added to it the portion of the blessed Mary, as if she were his mother; and ought we not the rather so to take the words, From that hour the disciple took her unto his own, that everything necessary for her was entrusted to his care? He received her, therefore, not unto his own lands, for he had none of his own; but to his own dutiful services, the discharge of which, by a special dispensation, was entrusted to himself."
An Eastern Orthodox Priest on Sola Scriptura Collin Brooks 2020-12-10 | In this video I defend Sola Scriptura.
A Response to Pastor Mike Wingers Interpretation of Romans 9 (Part V):Why Does He Still Find Fault? Collin Brooks 2020-11-30 | In this video, I respond to Pastor Mike's interpretation of Romans 9:19, and argue that he does not fairly represent the objection raised in that verse.
My Response to Leighton Flowers Collin Brooks 2020-10-28 | To my great surprise, Dr. Flowers responded to a portion of my three part series on his interview with Andy Stanley! This is my response. His video can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=FlbpvGaiUso&t=168sOne correction: I mentioned in the video that a portion of Andy Stanley's sermon wherein he celebrated a same sex couple volunteering in church could still be viewed on Vimeo. Apparently that has been removed as well. The sermon clip was from a sermon titled "When Gracey Met Truthy"
What He Wrote on a Dennys Napkin Should Never Have Led to a Conversion Collin Brooks 2020-10-06 | In this video I defend the protestant doctrine of the perspicuity of Scripture. Additional aids for the video:1) Here is my blog on the Didache which I referenced: resistingthewinds.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/does-the-didache-teach-a-eucharistic-sacrifice2) Here is an interesting admission from New Advent about the historicity of the Immaculate Conception: "In regard to the sinlessness of Mary the older Fathers are very cautious: some of them even seem to have been in error on this matter.Origen, although he ascribed to Mary high spiritual prerogatives, thought that, at the time of Christ's passion, the sword of disbelief pierced Mary's soul; that she was struck by the poniard of doubt; and that for her sins also Christ died (Origen, "In Luc. hom. xvii").In the same manner St. Basil writes in the fourth century: he sees in the sword, of which Simeon speaks, the doubt which pierced Mary's soul (Epistle 260).St. Chrysostom accuses her of ambition, and of putting herself forward unduly when she sought to speak to Jesus at Capharnaum (Matthew 12:46; Chrysostom, Homily 44 on Matthew).But these stray private opinions merely serve to show that theology is a progressive science."3) Here is an interesting admission from a citation found at Catholic Answers on the historicity of the Bodily Assumption: "We have known for some time that there were widespread “Transitus Stories” that date from the sixth century that teach Mary’s glorious Assumption. It was the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption by Pope Pius XII that rekindled interest in these stories of the end of Mary’s life."
A Response to Pastor Mike Wingers Interpretation of Romans 9 (Part IV): Regeneration & Faith? Collin Brooks 2020-09-23 | As I continue through Pastor Mike Winger's reading of Romans 9, we focus this video on Romans 9:14-16, and discuss two things: Pastor Mike's misunderstand of Regeneration from the Reformed perspective; and, the important distinction between "election" and individual salvation. I am still having technological issues, so I apologize for the poor quality of Pastor Mike's recording.
Straw Men and Sola Scriptura Collin Brooks 2020-09-08 | A response to the misrepresentations of Sola Scriptura from How to be Christian.(I had a technical difficulty while recording, which forced me to add an audio effect to the video I respond to, and I apologize for that!)The video I critique can be seen in its entirety here: youtube.com/watch?v=5tTyiKx-iXM&t=233s
A Response to Pastor Mike Wingers Interpretation of Romans 9 (Part III): Nations or Individuals? Collin Brooks 2020-08-26 | In part three of my response, I show one more example of the confusing understanding of the Abrahamic promise in Pastor Mike's interpretation, and then I briefly explain why Jacob and Esau are not to be read as "nations" in Romans 9.Part two can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=rmo2gByyobE
A Response to Pastor Mike Wingers Interpretation of Romans 9 (Part II): What is the Promise? Collin Brooks 2020-07-30 | What is the promise? That is what we discuss in part 2. Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=OB3ZAe6CjvU&t=38s
Matt Fradd and Gary Machuta Did NOT Debunk Sola Scripture Collin Brooks 2020-07-28 | I respond to Catholic apologists Matt Fradd and Gary Michuta's critique of Sola Scriptura. Here is a link to James White's debate with Gary Michuta on the Old Testament Canon: youtube.com/watch?v=AAoNfH1rFtE&t=5724sHere is a link to the book I recommended: amazon.com/Canon-Revisited-Establishing-Authority-Testament/dp/1433505002Here is a link to one of James White's debates on Sola Scriptura: youtube.com/watch?v=nxTEtArbCgs&t=3637sHere is a link to an article that defends the "sola scripture presupposes scripture" quote discussed in the video: http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2010/01/beckwiths-bait-and-switch.htmlHere is a link to a debate on the OT Canon: youtube.com/watch?v=UfMvCAU4tno
A Response to Pastor Mike Wingers Interpretation of Romans 9 (Part I):Does Paul Love More than God? Collin Brooks 2020-07-22 | This is part 1 in my series critiquing Pastor Mike Winger's exegesis of Romans 9.
Responding to Andy Stanley & Leighton Flowers pt. III Collin Brooks 2020-07-14 | This is the 3rd installment of my response to Andy Stanley and Leighton Flowers attempting to prove that Calvinism negatively impacts local church ministry.
7 Catholic Things Protestants CanNOT Start Believing RIGHT NOW Collin Brooks 2020-07-02 | This is a response to a video made discussing 7 Roman Catholic beliefs and practices which Protestants can safely adopt.
Thoughts on Jon Steingards Apostasy Collin Brooks 2020-05-27 | In this video, I provide (hopefully) useful commentary on the apostasy testimony of former Hawk Nelson frontman Jon Steingard.
Responding to Andy Stanley and Leighton Flowers pt. II Collin Brooks 2020-04-30 | This is the second installment in my response to Andy Stanley and Leighton Flowers as they claim that Calvinism is harmful to local church ministry.
Responding to Andy Stanley & Leighton Flowers pt. I Collin Brooks 2020-04-30 | In this video series, I respond to Andy Stanley discussing with Leighton Flowers about how Calvinism harms local church ministry.
Did God Kill Jesus? Collin Brooks 2020-04-23 | I respond to a brief sermon clip in regards to Substitutionary Atonement.
A Christian Response to a General Conference Message & A Plea to Mormons Collin Brooks 2020-04-18 | In this video I examine some of Jeffery R. Holland's message at the 2020 General Conference and have a kind of one way conversation with Mormon listeners.
Some Thoughts on Apostasy Collin Brooks 2020-03-04 | In this video I share a few thoughts that have been in my head ever since hearing of a famous YouTube star who fell away from the Christian faith.
