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RELIGIOUS HERESY- Definition The word “heresy,” in its most common usage, refers to false teachings that destroy. They are destructive because they overturn the basic elements which make up the historic Christian faith, substituting in their place doctrines which distort or contradict the teachings found in the Bible.
First, the Bible is a direct revelation from God. As such, it has divine authority. For what the Bible says, God says. Sola Scriptura—The Sufficiency of Scripture Second, the Bible is sufficient: it is all that is necessary for faith and practice. For Protestants “the Bible alone” means “the Bible only” is the final authority for our ...
BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT- Introduction What is man? Is he merely a body? Is he a union of body and soul, or are human beings threefold unions of body, soul, and spirit? Most importantly, what does the Bible say? And what difference does it make? BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT- Material and Immaterial The Bible clearly teaches that […]
NOTES. 1. All Bible quotations are the author’s translation. 2. Milton S. Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, vol. 2, Library of Biblical and Theological Literature, ed. George R. Crooks and John F. Hurst (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1883),579.
In recent years, many have weighed in with books, op-eds, position papers, and online debates. Topics of these discussions range from the place of Christian organizations on state-funded public university campuses to debates about the viability of faith-based approaches to scientific inquiry.
Mark Mittelberg, Confident Faith: Building a Firm Foundation For Your Faith (Tyndale), releasing May 1, 2013. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Crossway, 2004). This is from a paper Lewis originally read to the Socratic Club in Oxford, England, called “Obstinacy in Belief,” emphasis in original.
During the first several centuries of Christian history, believers expressed their faith through short statements called “creeds” (from the Latin word credo, meaning “I believe”). 1 There were many such statements, but two of them, the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, became the most universally accepted extrabiblical statements in the Christian church.
Paul’s sermon to philosophers in Athens is a masterful piece of apologetic reasoning that has inspired a score of Christian apologists over the ages (Acts 17:16–34).4 In this same spirit, Christian thinkers from Saint Augustine to C. S. Lewis have been brought to faith through apologetics.
Binding and Loosing- Introduction In Matthew 18:18 Jesus said, “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Some people today claim that Jesus was telling us that we have power to “bind” the devil and his demons. Others claim that he was […]