This is the fourth installment in my series on the Nicene Creed. You can read the first three installments here, if you are interested. This post will take a look at another one of the more interesting controversies surrounding the creed, involving, literally, one little letter. But that one little letter makes a world of […]
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Our church recently went through the book of Acts together. One member of the church told me after our study of Acts, she has come to a greater appreciation for the Apostle Paul. Reading of his missionary journeys where we see his boldness in preaching and his willingness to suffer for Christ put on full
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The great skeptic David Hume said witnesses should be unbiased if we’re going to consider them credible. So when skeptics look at the New Testament documents, they often ask: How can you say they are reliable when they were written by the converted? These are biased accounts written by biased people. It’s true that the
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This is the third installment of our series on the Nicene Creed. You can read Part 1 and Part 2, here and here. This post will look at one of the more controversial elements of the Creed, a single word found in the final section on the Holy Spirit, filioque, which is Latin for “and
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This is part 3 in our series “Is Christianity Harmful to Society.” You can read parts 1 and 2, here and here. Has Christianity as a whole done any good for mankind? Has it been more harmful or helpful? I think given what we know about history, Christianity has had a tremendously positive impact on
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This is part 2 in our series “Is Christianity Harmful to Society.” You can read Part 1 here. Some say that religion is the problem with the world. Take the late Christopher Hitchens as one obvious example.[1] But could it be that religion is not the actual problem? Take war, for instance. Is Christianity, or
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