Field guides

A defense with gentleness, clarity, and an open Bible.

We are not training believers to win internet fights. We are training them to locate the real fault line, represent people honestly, expose a false gospel, and make Christ clear.

Roman Catholicism

Authority, justification, mediation

“What is the final, God-breathed norm that can bind every Christian conscience?”

Controlling fault line

Scripture and tradition; infused versus credited righteousness; the sufficiency of Christ’s once-for-all priestly work.

Posture

Address official teaching accurately. Do not assume every Catholic understands or affirms every dogma equally.

2 Tim. 3:14–17Rom. 3:21–4:8Heb. 10:10–181 Tim. 2:5

Jehovah’s Witnesses

The eternal Son and the divine Spirit

“Does the immediate context present Jesus as Creator or as part of creation?”

Controlling fault line

A created Christ, an impersonal spirit, translation choices, and organizational authority.

Posture

Stay in one passage. Let context, grammar, and the Old Testament background do the heavy lifting.

John 1:1–18John 8:48–59Heb. 1Acts 5:3–4

Latter-day Saints

One God and one apostolic gospel

“Can a later revelation overturn the God and gospel already revealed by the apostles?”

Controlling fault line

Plural gods, human exaltation, restoration claims, additional scriptures, and a different account of grace.

Posture

Define shared words. ‘Jesus,’ ‘grace,’ ‘salvation,’ and ‘God’ may carry radically different meanings.

Isa. 43:10–13Isa. 44:6–8Gal. 1:6–10Jude 3

Islam

Trinity, Sonship, cross, resurrection

“What historical and textual evidence would establish that the biblical text was corrupted?”

Controlling fault line

Divine oneness, the identity of Jesus, the cross, and whether prior revelation was preserved.

Posture

Define the Trinity as one being and three persons; never let biological sonship or three-gods language stand.

Matt. 28:18–20John 1:1–181 Cor. 15:1–8Heb. 1:1–4

IUIC / Israel-only movements

Christ, covenant, law, nations

“Who does Jesus claim to be before Abraham existed—and why do his hearers reach for stones?”

Controlling fault line

A merely human Jesus, denial of virgin conception, law-based righteousness, and ethnic restriction of salvation.

Posture

Lead with Christology. Compare hermeneutical methods openly, then read whole arguments rather than chained fragments.

Ex. 3:13–15John 8:48–59Rom. 3:19–4:5Eph. 2:11–22

Orthodox Judaism

Messiah, atonement, new covenant

“How do suffering, atonement, vindication, and exaltation belong to the same servant?”

Controlling fault line

The messianic identity of Jesus, divine plurality, the cross, and New Testament fulfillment claims.

Posture

Begin with shared Hebrew Scripture, listen well, and reject every form of antisemitism.

Isa. 52:13–53:12Ps. 110Dan. 7:9–14Jer. 31:31–34

Oneness Pentecostalism

One God, three distinct persons

“At Jesus’ baptism, who speaks, who stands in the water, and who descends?”

Controlling fault line

Modalism, the baptismal formula, and whether Father, Son, and Spirit are eternally distinct.

Posture

Affirm monotheism first. Then show that personal distinction is biblical, not a concession to tritheism.

Matt. 3:13–17Matt. 28:19John 14:15–172 Cor. 13:14

Prosperity & spiritual abuse

Cross-shaped power under biblical order

“Does this teacher’s doctrine, fruit, use of money, and exercise of authority resemble Christ and his apostles?”

Controlling fault line

Guaranteed health and wealth, coercive giving, untested prophecy, celebrity immunity, and fear-based control.

Posture

Protect the wounded. Do not let continuationism become an excuse for credulity, manipulation, or disorder.

1 Tim. 6:3–102 Cor. 4:7–121 Cor. 14:26–331 Pet. 5:1–5

The non-negotiable center

Do not defend Christianity while obscuring Christ.

Every conversation must eventually answer: Who is Jesus? What has he accomplished? How is a sinner made right with God? What authority tells us so?