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John Wesley, False Apostle of Free Will
Wesley was a remarkable man by any standards, “a man of rare ability, passion and commitment and unique energy” (p. 199). In his 87 years, he rode over 250,000 miles to preach over 40,000 sermons (p. 199). He was a man of indomitable will, rising at 4 a.m. each morning and braving foul weather and hostile crowds. One reads of his escapes from angry mobs with wonder (pp. 110-120). Tomkins writes that in his last few years he was widely received with “veneration;” indeed he was “almost a national treasure” (p. 183). In 1790, there were 61,811 Methodists in the United States and 71,463 in the United Kingdom (p. 190). Today, there are some 33 million Methodists worldwide. Last 2003 was the tercentenary of Wesley’s birth and accolades poured in from all over the world, with some of the most effusive coming from purported Calvinists. Surely then John Wesley was a faithful servant of God, owned and honoured in the cause of Jesus Christ?
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Evaluation of Christmas Selections in the LIVING HYMNS Hymnal
The following are brief observations of the many errors and weaknesses to be found in selections generally designed to be used at a certain season of commemoration.
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Should a Christian Celebrate Christmas?
The following outline describes the origin of Christmas (with its associated pagan customs, symbols, and terminology), details the Scriptural support against celebrating Christmas, attempts to show that celebrating Christmas violates the spirit of every one of the ten commandments, attempts to demonstrate that celebrating Christmas does not fall in the realm of Christian liberty, and attempts to debunk eight of the major rationalizations Christians put forth for celebrating Christmas.
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What are we to make of Christmas?
Christmas is coming! Quite so; but what is "Christmas"? Does not the very term itself denote its source—"Christ-mass." Thus it is of Romish origin, brought over from Paganism. But, says someone, Christmas is the time when we commemorate the Savior's birth. It is? And who authorized such commemoration? Certainly God did not. The Redeemer bade His disciples "remember" Him in His death, but there is not a word in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation which tells us to celebrate His birth...
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Turn on your Baloney Detector
Carl Sagan was the unofficial voice for naturalistic atheism for many years until his death in 1997. In one of his last books, The Dedmon-Haunted World, Sagan lamented that in spite of monumental public education efforts to teach random chance processes had produced all life, only 9% of American citizens accepted this as true. Sagan's solution was...
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The Testimony of a former Roman Catholic Priest
We were a typical Irish Roman Catholic family. My father sometimes knelt down to pray at his bedside in a solemn manner. My mother would talk to Jesus while sewing, washing dishes, or even smoking a cigarette. Most evenings we would kneel in the living room to say the Rosary together. No one ever missed Mass on Sundays unless he was seriously ill. By the time I was about five or six years of age, Jesus Christ was a very real person to me, but so also were Mary and the saints.
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The Christian and the Television
Would you invite a man to live with you who refused to pray with you, who persistently mocked the church, who laughed at marriage, who was immoral and adulterous, who blasphemed the name of God, who desecrated the Lord's sabbath day?
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The "Gospel" of Satan
Satan is the arch-counterfeiter. As we have seen, the Devil is now busy at work in the same field in which the Lord sowed the good seed. He is seeking to prevent the growth of the wheat by another plant, the tares, which closely resembles the wheat in appearance. In a word, by a process of imitation he is aiming to neutralize the Word of Christ. Therefore, as Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it.
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The Fallibility of Ministers
Have we ever considered what the Apostle Peter did at Antioch? It is a question that deserves serious consideration.
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Eastern Orthodox Bishops – High Priests?
The office of the Bishop is essential to the continuation of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Without the bishops the Orthodox Church would cease to exist. This paper briefly examines the historical development of this ecclesiastical structure and compares the concept of the Orthodox Bishop with the bishop or overseer as described in the Scriptures1.
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THE ANTICHRIST UNVEILED
On October 8th, 2000, Pope John Paul II, under the assumed title of Vicar of Christ, consecrated the world and the new millennium to “Mary Most Holy.” [1] This “Act of Entrustment to Mary Most Holy” of that which belongs to God alone is a mockery of the First Commandment. The Pope’s official and offensive act ought to warn Christians that while the Pope formally claims to be “the true vicar of Christ,” [2] he in fact opposes Christ by false worship. What is equally serious is the title under which he performs. The True Vicar of Christ is the Holy Spirit. He alone is sent to take the Lord’s place, testifying not to Himself but to Christ.
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Is the Quran Preserved?
Some Christian apologists make the argument that the Reminder refers to all of Allah’s messages including the one revealed in the Bible. Muslims usually reject this claim and say that Allah guards only the Quran. Taking into account everything that the Quran says about the Scriptures of the Jews and the Christians, one can make a solid argument that the Quran presupposes that the Jews and Christians possess indeed God’s authentic and uncorrupted revelation (see these articles). However, since Muslims often do not accept those arguments, the purpose of this paper is to show that their position leads to a set of logical problems. Thus, for argument’s sake I will go along with these Muslim claims, and explore where this interpretation will lead us when taken together with some other Muslim convictions.
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Muslim Jesus vs. Biblical Jesus
The Islamic position on the identity of Jesus is taken from the Koran and Hadiths, which together comprise the ultimate authority in the Muslim Religion. Most Muslims are not aware of most of these texts. Likewise, most Christians are not aware of their own Biblical Scriptures defending the identity of Christ. And certainly, many Christians are not aware of either the Biblical or Islamic Scriptures describing Jesus Christ. So, I believe it is crucial to bring into focus for you exactly what Islam says about Jesus and then compare it to what the Bible says about who Jesus is.
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"Let’s March For Jesus"
Let me ask you a question. Do you really think that has anything to do with biblical Christianity?
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The Passion of the Christ: Motives Revealed
The newly released "Definitive Edition" of Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ" confirms the film was produced with the specific purpose to promote a Roman Catholic agenda that would introduce viewers to the Roman Catholic "Mary" and the Roman Catholic "Jesus."
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Shouldn’t Churches Be More Ecumenical, More Willing To Compromise?
From my earliest experience in the kingdom of God, for as long as I can remember, people have been telling me, "We need to be more ecumenical." When I was in high school, teachers and other students told me that. When I was in college all the professors (without exception) and my fellow students told me the same thing. Even those who claimed to believe the gospel of God’s grace.
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The Antichrist
Jesus said, "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many" (Matt.24:5). Not just one man at the end of time, but many men, a succession of men, all claiming to come in the name of Christ, and each one of them claiming to be Christ. A succession of men,...
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The Bible and the Roman Catholic Catechism
A comparison of Biblical Truth and Catholic Dogma
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