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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. The doctrines of the Trinity, the unique deity of ...
Sola Scriptura implies several things. 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 ...
The analogy of faith is not the principle that Scripture interprets Scripture, but that all Scripture is in agreement and will not contradict itself. It assumes the unity and harmony of teaching throughout the Bible. In other words, when multiple passages say something about a topic (either explicitly or implicitly), then what those passages ...
SYNOPSIS. Evangelical Christians often have two major problems with the ancient creeds. First, we object to the use of creeds on the grounds that those documents convert biblical language into philosophical categories, in contrast to our insistence on using the Bible’s own language. This objection fails to recognize that the creeds sought ...
At such colleges, the educators seek to develop a certain kind of person for church and society. The Christian liberal arts education remains the best education available to humanity. We who deliver it offer a unique mixture of intellectual inquiry, spiritual formation, and a commitment to calling and career.
1. Knowing God’s Word Builds a Confident Faith. Let these words of Jesus, from John 8:32, soak in: “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”. He didn’t say, “You will develop Christian ideas,” but rather, “You shall know the truth!”. Equally bold, Jesus declared in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth ...
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 talking about “binding” sickness and poverty and “loosing ...
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.
The church’s Bible (not the Gnostics’ Bible) is the supreme authority, but it can be rightly understood only within the context of the “rule of faith” and the church’s apostolic succession of ministers as attesting witnesses to its truth. Irenaeus is also a contemporary theological figure for recognizing authentic Christian identity ...