AI Debate

Resolved: Baptism is to be administered only to professing believers upon their own confession of faith (credobaptism), not to the infant children of believers (paedobaptism).

The Baptist/Anabaptist position against the Reformed, Lutheran, Catholic, and Orthodox practice of infant baptism, and what the sign is held to signify and confer.

per point: 16.5 · 9.9/20

Resolved: Christ established a single visible Church governed by apostolic succession and the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, rather than leaving final authority to interpret Scripture to the priesthood of all believers.

Papal primacy and apostolic succession against the Protestant priesthood-of-all-believers and congregational-autonomy model of church governance.

per point: 14.8 · 14.7/20 ⚠ VOLUME-SENSITIVE

Resolved: A sinner is justified before God by faith alone (sola fide), apart from works of the law, and not by a faith formed and completed by works of charity.

The Reformation's material principle: Protestant sola fide against the Catholic understanding of justification as a process involving faith, grace, and good works.

per point: 18.1 · 11.1/20

Resolved: Scripture alone (sola scriptura) is the church's sole infallible rule of faith; sacred tradition and the ecclesial magisterium hold no equal or supplementary binding authority.

The Reformation's formal principle: Protestant sola scriptura against the Catholic/Orthodox claim that Scripture and apostolic tradition together, safeguarded by the Church's teaching office, form the rule of faith.

per point: 15.1 · 13.8/20

Resolved: In the Lord's Supper the bread and wine are truly and substantially changed into the body and blood of Christ (the Real Presence), and are not merely symbolic or memorial.

Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran real-presence views of communion against the Reformed and Baptist memorialist view.

per point: 16.0 · 13.6/20

Resolved: Human beings possess genuine free will.

A deep test debate to explore how far structured arguments can descend.