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WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: PRESERVATION OF SCRIPTURE AND VERSIONS

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

PRESERVATION OF SCRIPTURE AND VERSIONS

Scripture: Preservation

A Sniff Test on the Preservation of Scripture

The Actual History of King James Onlyism

Answering Aaron Again on the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Answering Aaron on the Doctrine of Preservation—Part Two

Aaron on TSKT, part three —- Introduction

Aaron on TSKT, part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part two

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part three

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part five

Answering the TR (Textus Receptus), Perfect Preservation of Scripture Question. One More Time.

Answers to Questions about the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Any Fault in Fideism

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them, part two

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

Can We Separate a Miracle of Inspiration from a Miracle of Preservation?

Case Study in the Rise of a False Doctrine or Misinterpretation of Scripture: Preservation Passages

Certainty or Uncertainty: Perfect Preservation or Multiple Versions (J)

Churches: The “How” of Perfect Preservation (J)

Commentary on the Steven Anderson–James White Interview, part one

Commentary on the Steven Anderson–James White Interview, part two

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part One)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Two)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Three)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Four)

Debate on the Preservation of Scripture

The Doctrine of the Preservation of Scripture and the Idea of Acceptable Multiple Versions of Scripture

Does DBTS Theological Journal Present a Biblical Theology of Preservation?

Eclectic, Critical Text, and MVO on Truth Serum (J)

Editions of the TR Argument and Excellent Preservation Versus Perfect Preservation

The Embarrassing History of the Doctrine of Preservation for the Multiple Versionists

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part one

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part two

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part three

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part four

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part five

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part six

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture, part two

The Dishonesty over the Version or Preservation of Scripture Issue

Explaining the Role of the Holy Spirit in the Perfect Preservation Doctrine or Sacred Text Position So that Anyone Really, Really Will Understand It

Fideistic Fakes

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2

Gender Discord and Psalm 12:6-7

Historiography, Bible Doctrine, and the Text of Scripture

Honesty About the Historical Position on Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation part 2

Is it True That No Two NT MSS Are Exactly the Same?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism? Part Two

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism? Part Three

Isaiah 59:21 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)

Jerome’s Preface to the Canonical Epistles–Ancient Evidence for 1 John 5:7 (T)

John 10:35, the Scripture Cannot Be Broken, and Perfect Preservation of Scripture

John Owen Again on the Septuagint (LXX) Issue Related to the Presuppositions for the Preservation of Scripture, Meanwhile Answering James White

Jon Gleason’s Series on Preservation of Scripture: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8

Kay Jay Vee Potpourri

Kethiv / Qere and King James Only (KJVO) or Perfect Preservation (T)

The Latin Vulgate and the King James Version

The Lie about the History of One Bible Onlyism

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 2

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 3

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About or He’s Lying, pt. 4

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: OBTAINING A LIFE’S PARTNER

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

OBTAINING OF A LIFE’S PARTNER

Marriage: Obtaining a Life’s Partner

Do Women Bring It On or Ask for It?

My Online Marriage Service

More My Online Marriage Service

My Online Marriage Service III

Your Online Marriage Service, Part IV

Your Online Marriage Service, V

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part one (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part two (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part three (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part four (J)

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: OBTAINING OF A LIFE’S PARTNER

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

OBTAINING OF A LIFE’S PARTNER

Marriage: Obtaining a Life’s Partner

Do Women Bring It On or Ask for It?

My Online Marriage Service

More My Online Marriage Service

My Online Marriage Service III

Your Online Marriage Service, Part IV

Your Online Marriage Service, V

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part one (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part two (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part three (J)

The Bible Way to Obtain Your Spouse part four (J)

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: BAPTISTS AND CHURCH

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

BAPTISTS AND CHURCH

Baptists

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called

Keswick Preaching and then Practical Perversion: the Unaffiliated

Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 1

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 2

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 3

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 4

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 5

An Honest Basic Assessment of Independent Baptists, pt. 6

The Most Divisive of All Independent Baptists: Let’s Think about It

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel

The Problem among Independent Baptists with the Gospel, pt. 2

Southern Baptist Evangelism and Unregenerate Evangelicals

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 2

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 3

Unaffiliated Baptist Churches: Analysis of the Emphasis, pt. 4

Baptist History

The Anabaptists Did Not Get the Trinity From Constantine, and the Ancient Arians Were Bloody Persecutors

Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?

The Falsehood of English Separatism

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2

The Historic Baptist Doctrine of Receiving Christ as both Savior and Lord and the So-Called Lordship Salvation, or the So-Called Free Grace Gospel (T)

Theology and Baptist History As It Dovetails with World History

A Trail of Blood

The Two Book Approach and English Separatism

The Waldenses Controversy

Church

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.1

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.2

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.3

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.4

As the Church Is Subject Unto Christ

The Baptist Distinctives Are Not the Bible

“Body of Christ” Defined

Church Autonomy, Pastoral Authority, Closed Communion, and the Gospel: The Means Becoming the End

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

Cleverness

The Conference

Correcting False Doctrine Outside of Your Church: Permissible or Encouraged in Scripture?

The Eclecticism of Today’s Churches

Distinctions in Churches and Characteristics of Churches: I Know What Distinguishes Ours

Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church

God’s Evaluation of the Judgment of an Individual Church

Horrible and Yet Typical Ecclesiological Explanation

How to Handle Doctrinal and Practical Problems with Other Churches

I Don’t Choose What Distinguishes Our Church, But It Still Does

Judgment Must Begin in the House of God

Judgment Must Begin in the House of God, pt. 2

A Leaky Container and Its Spoiled Contents

The Meaning of the Word Church According to ReligiousAffections.Org

Missing the Mark: 9 Marks Aren’t Enough (J)

Open Letter on the Integrity of the New Testament Church (Gary Webb)

Pastors and Churches That Accept Our Former Members

Repentance and the Baptist Church Constitution (T)

Scripture Repudiates Innovation in and by the Church

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 1

Six Positions on Church Music, pt. 2

The Start of the Church: Who, When, and What Difference Does It Make?

Temples

Unity Beyond the Church

What About Special Music in the Church?

What NT Churches can Do to Oppose Sodomite Marriage, Abortion, and Economic Theft

Where to Live, Life, and the Choice of a Church

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 1 (J)

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 2 (J)

Why Am I in a Church like the One I’m in? pt. 3 (J)

A World of Lies Starting with a Church of Lies

Church: Authority

How Does a Gathering of People Obtain Church Authority?

Is There Any Spiritual Authority Outside of a Church and Other than the Lord Jesus Christ?

Church: Autonomy

Christian Liberty and Its Relationship to Church Autonomy and Sola Scriptura

Church: Discipline

Observations about Church Discipline from 1 Corinthians 5

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 1 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 2 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 3 (J)

Shameful Alternatives for Church Discipline pt. 4 (J)

Church: Faithfulness

How Faithful Is Faithful to Church

Church: Growth

The Apology Owed to Jack Hyles and Jack Schaap (J)

The Apostle Paul and Ethics in Evangelism: Exposing the Corruption of Modern Methods

Blessing, Keswick, and Man-Centered Methods

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used)

Bribery and Pandering: Ties that Bind Modern Church Growth (that neither Jesus nor the Apostles Used), pt. 2

The Burden of Man Centered Evangelism

The Choice Between Regulating Church Growth Methodology by Scripture or by Silence

Church Decrease Movement (CDM): Faithful Numerical Church Decrease

Church Growth Hypocrisy

Churches and their Popular Inclusion of Dress Information on their Websites

Concepts in Church Growth Philosophy Which Dumb Down Love

Crowds

Did He Invite?

Evangelical Mumbo Jumbo: Ziplines and Worship Wars

The Evil Junction of False Gospel, Distorted Sanctification, Success, Church Growth, Second

Greater Works: What Are We to Expect?

Halfway Measures

How Does Levi’s Feast for Jesus Apply to Evangelistic Methodology?

How Does Modern Church Growth Not Compare to Church Growth in the Bible, part one

How Giving Up or Stopping Door-to-Door Evangelism Will Grow or Build Your Church

I Don’t Think Most Christians Even Know What the Great Commission Is

John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins

John 6: Church Growth Methods and Other Sins, pt. 2

Key for Evangelistic Church

One Particular Corruption of Repentance to Accommodate a Methodology, Success, and Numbers

Pandering: The Actual Tie that Binds Most of American Churches

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: Social Justice Panderers

Paul Obliterates Pandering in Galatians: His Antidote to Pandering

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 1

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 2

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 3

The Relationship of How Evangelical and Fundamentalist Churches Operate Today to How Our Government Functions

Rick Warren and Jack Hyles: What’s Changed? (J)

Show Time: Making the Gospel About Us (J)

30, 60, 100: Can We Conclude That More Fruit Was Caused by the One Receiving the Seed?

This Is Not Jack Hyles

What Can We Conclude from How Big Churches Get or How Small They Are?

Church: History and Historic Teaching

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

Calvin 500

Children Scribble Scrabbling: Interpretation of History and Reformed Theology

Comments on Luther’s 95 Theses

Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?

Epistemology and the History of the Church

The Falsehood of English Separatism

Halfway Measures

History of Doctrine: Historic Ecclesiology

The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards (T)

Selective Reformation

Selective Reformation, part two

Selective Reformation, part three

Selective Reformation, part four

Selective Reformation, part five

Since Jesus Sang in the Church, Well…

Theology and Baptist History As It Dovetails with World History

A Trail of Blood

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 2 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 3 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 4 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 5 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 6 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 7 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 8 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 9 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 10 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 11 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 2 (T)

Church: Leadership

Are the Qualifications for the Office of the Pastor Also Disqualifications?

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part one

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part two

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part three

The Deceit and Tragedy of the Wrong Attribution of Success or a Wrong View of Success in Church Leadership, part four

How Did “Old Time Fundamentalists Act When Their Leaders Did Stupid Things”?

How Much Should Church Leadership Be Involved In Governmental or Political Matters?

Intimidating with Bigness

Church: Local

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 2

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 3

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 4

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 5

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 6

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 7: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

An Analysis and Review of Kevin Bauder’s “Landmarkism”, pt. 8: What Marks a True, Actual Church?

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.1

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.2

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.3

Answering David Cloud on the Church, pt.4

“Body of Christ” Defined

Container for Truth

Careful Exegesis

Ekklesia

Ekklesia Means “Assembly”

Ekklesia Means “Assembly”, part two

Ekklesia Means “Assembly” pt. 3

Flock Teaching

Horrible and Yet Typical Ecclesiological Explanation

Koine Parallels to Ephesians 5:23 Show That NT Only Provides Invisible Support to the Invisible,

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 2

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 3

Local Only Ecclesiology, Baptist History, and Landmarkism, pt. 4

The Meaning of the Word Church According to ReligiousAffections.Org

Thoughts on “People of God: The Church” by Kevin Bauder

Universal Church (T)

The Use of the Singular in the Bible, and the Church

Church: Membership

Church Membership and the Marriage Covenant

Church: Ordinances (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper)

Acts 2:38–Baptism Essential to Salvation? (T)

Acts 22:16–Baptism Essential for Salvation? (T)

Baptism: Why So Far?

Building Tool (J)

Communion (J)

The Lord’s Supper: Close, Closed, or In-Between? (T)

Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches

Mark 7:4 & the “washing [baptidzo] . . . of tables:” Baptism is still Immersion in the Baptizing of Tables or Dining Couches, part 2 (T)

Reception of the Elements (J)

Unrestrained Theology (Infant Sprinkling)

What Is the Communion of the Lord’s Table? (J)

Why Closed Communion? (J)

Church: Pastor

“Having Faithful Children” in Titus 1:6 (J)

Expecting Pastors to Pastor Tentmaking

Unlearned and Ignorant Men

Church: Planting

Church Planting Foolishness

Our Strategy for Sacramento, California part one

Our Strategy for Sacramento, California part two

Church: Sufficiency of the Church

Dan, Bethel, and Parachurch Organizations (J)

Looking for Help in All the Wrong Places

Church: Universal (see Church: Local)

The Ambiguity, Confusion, Contradiction, and License of Universal Church Practice

Body of Christ Defined

Paul Bunyan in the Bible?

The Use of the Singular in the Bible, and the Church

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: PRAYER

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

PRAYER

Prayer

A Valid Prayer Request (Colossians 1:9) (J)

The Definition of Faith or Belief and Prayer

The Definition of Faith or Belief and Prayer, pt. 2

Evangelistic Prayers (Colossians 4:2-6) (J)

Group Praying

Jesus Said, Have Faith in God

The Keswick-Continuationist Prayer Equivalent Everywhere in Christianity

More About How to Pray

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: CONTINUATIONISM AND CESSATIONISM, HOLY SPIRIT, AND SPIRITUALITY

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

CONTINUATIONISM AND CESSATIONISM, HOLY SPIRIT, AND SPIRITUALITY

Cessationism-Continuationism (Ecstasy, Soft Continuationism) [See Spirituality]

Actual Sensing of the Holy Spirit or God and then the More Prominent Fake Kind, Which Is a Lie

Does the Holy Spirit Lead Believers by Talking to Them Directly?

Erroneous Reliance on Circumstances as Evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Leading

Exploring Unacceptable Degrees of Normativeness of the Book of Acts

Extra-Scriptural Divine Talk: A Common Ground for Almost All False Religion

1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “try the spirits” and the Rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 1 of 3 (T)

1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “try the spirits” and the Rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 2 of 3 (T)

1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “Try the spirits” and the rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 3 of 3 (T)

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God, pt. 2

Greater Works: What Are We to Expect?

Hearing Voices: Extra-Canonical Fallacies (Including James White)

If You Don’t Have God Talking to You, What Then?

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 2

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 3

Is It That You’re Really Missing Something? Forms of Second Blessing Theology, pt. 4

Is the Macedonian Call Normative for Missions Today?

Is the Macedonian Call Normative for Missions Today? Part Two

The Keswick-Continuationist Prayer Equivalent Everywhere in Christianity

Lead, Guide,and Direct: What is This?

The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God

Producing Experiences with the Flesh and Calling It the Spirit

Reformed Continuationists: Strange Fire or Not?

Self-Loathing Revivalist Baptist Continuationists

Smiracles

That Which Is Perfect

What Continues Today from Eras of Miracles? Thoughts on the Non-Charismatic Continuationism

Wisdom and Signs: Two Characteristics Rampant in Churches

You Know You’re a Continuationist When….

Holy Spirit

Lead, Guide,and Direct: What is This?

The Negativity of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit: Continuationism or Soft Continuationism

Actual Sensing of the Holy Spirit or God and then the More Prominent Fake Kind, Which Is a Lie

Does the Holy Spirit Lead Believers by Talking to Them Directly?

Everyone Justified by Faith Has the Unction and the Anointing

“God Told Me”

Keswick and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Experience Over Grammatical Exegesis

The Keswick-Continuationist Prayer Equivalent Everywhere in Christianity

The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God

Sensing the Presence of God: Is It Biblical?

What Continues Today from Eras of Miracles? Thoughts on the Non-Charismatic Continuationism

What Is the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in John 16:13?

You Know You’re a Continuationist When….

Holy Spirit: Baptism of the Spirit

Baptism of the Spirit

Baptism of the Spirit Deux

Do You Pray for the Outpouring of the Spirit?

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 1 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 2 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 3 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 4 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 5 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 6 (T)

Endnotes to Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist view, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism–The Historic Baptist view, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 8 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 9 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 10 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 11 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 12; Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 3 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 13; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 4 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 14; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 5 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 15; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 6 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 16; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 17; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 8 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 18; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 9 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 19 (T)

Spirit Baptism–the Historic Baptist View, part 20 (T)

Spirit Baptism–the Historic Baptist View, part 21 (T)

Spirit Baptism–the Historic Baptist View, part 22 (T)

Holy Spirit: Testifying

Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum

Spirit Filling

A Time and a Place

Spirituality (Ecstasy, Soft Continuationism)

Actual Sensing of the Holy Spirit or God and then the More Prominent Fake Kind, Which Is a Lie

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 1 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 2 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 3 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 4 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 5 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 6 of 7 (T)

Andrew Murray, Mystical Quietist and Higher Life / Keswick Writer, part 7 of 7 (T)

Deep and Very Warm Spirituality

Detection of True Spirituality — part one (J)

Detection of True Spirituality — part two (J)

Distortion of True Spirituality , pt. 1 (J)

Distortion of True Spirituality, pt. 2 (J)

Ecstasy Rampant in Evangelicalism (and Fundamentalism)

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Are Teeming with Ecstatic and Demonic Influence

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Are Teeming with Ecstatic and Demonic Influence part 2

Lead, Guide,and Direct: What is This?

The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God

Producing Experiences with the Flesh and Calling It the Spirit

Rampant Fake Spirituality

Rampant Fake Spirituality, part two

Schaap and Hyles and the Presence of God (J)

Sensing the Presence of God: Is It Biblical?

Spirituality

What Continues Today from Eras of Miracles? Thoughts on the Non-Charismatic Continuationism

Wisdom and Signs: Two Characteristics Rampant in Churches

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: DIVORCE, GENDER OR SEX, MARRIAGE, COMPLEMENTARIANISM

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

DIVORCE, GENDER OR SEX, MARRIAGE, COMPLEMENTARIANISM

Divorce and Remarriage

Got Controversy? Divorce and Remarriage (J)

Divorce, Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Remarriage, and New Testament teaching (T)

What God Hath Put Together: The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage (part one) (J)

What God Hath Put Together: The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage (part two) (J)

What God Hath Put Together: The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage (part three) (J)

What God Hath Put Together: The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage (part four) (J)

What I’ve Preached on Deuteronomy 24

Gender or Sex

Ability to Judge, Standard of Judgment, and Judging Effeminate Behavior (and Separating from It)

Biblical Evangelism and an Approach to the Possible Success of Bill AB 2943 in California

The Capitulation of the Church Hastened Transgenderism

Concessions As Root Cause of Same Sex Marriage

Embarrassment: Leviticus 18, NY Times, and Albert Mohler

Gagging at Yukkiness

A Gay Marriage Case Study: Whether It Hurts Someone Else Deciding Whether It Is Right

Gender Fluidity: The Destruction of the Symbols That Serve to Distinguish One Gender from Another

God Designed Roles, Their Symbolism, and Sodomy

“He” vs. “they”: the 3rd Person Singular English Pronoun, Feminism, Patriarchy, and Biblical Christianity in Grammar (T)

How Are Men Supposed to Act?

I am a Pigeon: A Manifesto for Marriage Equality, Animal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Transspecies Rights

The Leaven of Herod, Homosexuality, and Albert Mohler

Masculine Pastors: The Battle They Face and Will Face Even More

Megyn Kelly and the Concept of the Female Role Model

My Take on the Support of Same Sex Marriage

The Myth of Born Homosexuals

Not Ducking the Homosexual Issue

Noticeable Increase in Effeminate Sounding Men

Observations About Men and the Power of Women

Recognizing the Contradictions: Same Sex Marriage and the First Amendment

Repudiating the Fake Playboy Manhood, Partly of Trump

Same Gender Intimacy and Coition Is Bad and Worse

The Seriousness of the Symbolism for Male Headship (part one) (J)

The Seriousness of the Symbolism for Male Headship (part two) (J)

Should Homosexuals be Put to Death by the Government? (T)

Sons Need Dads and Same Gender Marriage: Something’s Gotta Give

The Supreme Court Decisions on Same Sex Marriage

To Bring Male and Female Roles Back to their Original Design: WHY JESUS CAME? (J)

Why Should Men Protect or Defend Women If They Aren’t or Can’t Be In Charge of Women?

Marriage and Marriage Roles (Complementarianism)

Concessions As Root Cause of Same Sex Marriage

A Gay Marriage Case Study: Whether It Hurts Someone Else Deciding Whether It Is Right

“He” vs. “they”: the 3rd Person Singular English Pronoun, Feminism, Patriarchy, and Biblical Christianity in Grammar (T)

How Are Men Supposed to Act?

Jesus and the Definition of Marriage

Masculine Pastors: The Battle They Face and Will Face Even More

Michele Bachmann and Submission to Husband

Should a Man Ever Be Under the Authority of a Woman? (J)

Should a Wife Ever Disobey Her Husband? (J)

To Bring Male and Female Roles Back to their Original Design: WHY JESUS CAME? (J)

Why Should Men Protect or Defend Women If They Aren’t or Can’t Be In Charge of Women?

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: EVANGELISM AND PREACHING

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

EVANGELISM AND PREACHING

Evangelism

The Apostle Paul and Ethics in Evangelism: Exposing the Corruption of Modern Methods

Biblical Evangelism and an Approach to the Possible Success of Bill AB 2943 in California

The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism, part 1 (T)

The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism, part 2 (T)

The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism, part 3 (T)

The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism, part 4 (T)

The Burden of Man-Centered Evangelism

Church Success: Evangelism

Complicating Evangelism

Concern over God’s Glory in Evangelism

A Door to Door Evangelism Encounter

Door-to-Door Evangelism: Are There Better Ways to Evangelize than Evangelizing?

Do You Evangelize?

Do You Have to Do Door-to-Door Evangelism?

Does Accommodation to Culture Help Evangelism?

I Don’t Think Most Christians Even Know What the Great Commission Is

A Dust Storm of Evangelism

A Dust Storm of Evangelism, pt. 2

“Evangel”icalism

“Evangel”icalism, part two

Evangelizing Biblically (tract by myself posted at faithsaves.net)

Explaining Repentance to an Ignorant Lost Person

Guide to Soulwinning and Personal Evangelism (T)

How Did Jesus Evangelize? part one (J)

How Did Jesus Evangelize? part two (J)

How Door-to-Door Evangelism Works

How Does Levi’s Feast for Jesus Apply to Evangelistic Methodology?

How Giving Up or Stopping Door-to-Door Evangelism Will Grow or Build Your Church

I Don’t Like Door-to-Door But I Do Love It

The Ignorance of a Luke 10 Approach

Is the Gospel Being Preached to Everyone Where You Are?

Jack Chick Cartoon Tracts: Use or Not to Use? (T)

Jack Hyles: The Enemy of Soulwinning (part one)

Jack Hyles: The Enemy of Soulwinning (part two)

A Lie to Deny for Evangelism to Thrive

Key for an Evangelistic Church

Nothing Is New In Actual Evangelism: Cleverness Is Bad in and for Evangelism

Personal Motivation to Evangelize

Preaching Repentance

Preaching the Gospel to New Evangelicals?

Questions for Seventh Day Adventists (T)

Reducing Ourselves to Scriptural Evangelism? (J)

Should We Use “Good Things” to Attract Unbelievers for Evangelism?

Should We Use “Good Things” to Attract Unbelievers for Evangelism? part two

Show Time: Making the Gospel About Us (J)

What Can We Conclude from How Big Churches Get or How Small They Are?

What Gospel Did Jesus Say to Preach as Part of the Great Commission?

What Part of “Go” Don’t We Understand? (J)

Preaching

Laid on My Heart? (J)

How Does the Power Work through the Words? (J)

How Much of Preaching Should Be Interpretation and How Much Application? (J)

How Much of Preaching Should Be Interpretation and How Much Application? part two (J)

Keswick Preaching and then Practical Perversion: the Unaffiliated

My History with Preaching with a Special Focus on John MacArthur

Preaching Is WORSHIP (Well, Should Be) (J)

Preaching with Power, Like Jesus Christ Did (T)

The Most Important Trait for the Expositor: Boldness (J)

The Superiority of Exposition (J)

What Is Preaching? And What Is Not

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: EVANGELICALISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

EVANGELICALISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

About “Leaving Fundamentalism”

A Circle and a Graph: Evangelical Excuses for Disobedience to God

Ambiguity and Utility: Fundamentals of Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

Are You Woke? The Truth Behind the Evangelical Woke Movement

Attacking the “Fundamentalists”: Bravo to John MacArthur and David Cloud, Bombarded by C. J. Mahaney and Fred Butler

Between Two Worlds: How Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Keep Scripture from the World in Which We Live

Big Talk with Little to Show at Evangelical Textual Criticism

A Case Study for Biblical Separation: James White and Michael Brown, According to Phil Johnson

A Catholicization of Evangelical Christianity

Certain Unscriptural Positions of Bibliology Worth Separating Over: Considering Mark Ward’s Call to Separation at FBFI

The Confusion and Heterodoxy of Modern Version Proponents: Revisited in Light of “FBFI and the KJV,” Its Reasons and Debate

The Confusion and Heterodoxy of Modern Version Proponents: Revisited in Light of “FBFI and the KJV,” Its Reasons and Debate, pt. 2

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part one

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part two

Conservative Evangelicals Explore the Doctrine of Separation, part three

The Convenient Repudiation of Fundamentalists by Evangelical Leaders Now Less Convenient

Corban: Rearing Its Ugly Head Again in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

A Critique of the 2008 Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International, Resolution One pt. 1

A Critique of the 2008 Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International, Resolution One pt. 2

Cultural Issues Are Essential for Evangelicals, Just for Bad Reasons

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part one

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part two

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part three

David Brooks of the New York Times on Fundamentalism and Religion

Debriefing the Les Ollila Interview

Destructive Fellowship in Fundamentalism

The Directions Toward Apostasy — How Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Are Getting There

The Dishonesty of the Fundamentalist Idea (J)

Ecstasy Rampant in Evangelicalism (and Fundamentalism)

The Elephant in the Room of the Separation Discussion Between Conservative Evangelicals and Fundamentalists

The Epistle to the Galatians and Evangelicalism or New Evangelicalism: Slaves or Sons

The Evangelical Seduction of Two Truths

Evangelicals (and Most Fundamentalists) Are Completely Messed Up About Christian Liberty and Then Mess Everyone Else Up By Pushing Their Perversion

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism and Why We’re In the Shape We’re In

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: Building Ox Carts to Reach the Conclusions They Desire (J)

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: Indifferentism (J)

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: The Embrace of Neutrality (J)

Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: Man’s Approval and the Fear of Independence (J)

Evangelical Mumbo Jumbo: Ziplines and Worship Wars

Evangelical or Fundamentalist Pharisaism part one

Evangelical or Fundamentalist Pharisaism part two

Evangelicals Arguing about Pink Hair Dye on Male Church Members

Evangelicals Arguing about Pink Hair Dye on Male Church Members, pt 2

Evangelicals Move the Goalposts on Adiaphora

Extra: An Evangelical Uses the Term “Separatist”

A Follow-Up to Questions for Non-Revivalist Fundamentalism (J)

Fundamentalism Associating with Syncretistic, Pagan Profanity

Fundamentalism, Separation, Charismatics, and Northland

Fundamentalist Floundering, pt. 1

Fundamentalist Floundering, pt. 2

Fundamentalist: The Movement or the Adjective

The “Fundamentalist Practice of Separation”?

The Fundamentalist Repulsion of Christian Worldview

Fundamentalist Seminary Attacks Centrality of the Church

Fundamentalist Seminary Attacks Centrality of the Church part two

God Is “Hyper-Fundamental”

Gospel Troubles

Historic Fundamentalism: What is it? (T)

How Did “Old Time Fundamentalists Act When Their Leaders Did Stupid Things”?

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Are Teeming with Ecstatic and Demonic Influence

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Are Teeming with Ecstatic and Demonic Influence part 2

How Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Have Invented and Continue to Reinvent A Socially Acceptable Impostor and Placebo Christianity

How Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Are Codifying Uncertainty and Doubt (J)

How Would Jesus or Paul Give Evangelicals Their Opportunity to Change?

The Hypocrisy of Contemporary “Conservative” Evangelicalism (J)

I Am Not a Cultural Fundamentalist (J)

“I Don’t See Man Clothes and Woman Clothes” — Evangelicalism and Most of Fundamentalism Agree

Immediate Pop Culture Relevancy

Intimidating with Bigness

The Irony of the Resolved Conference

I Want to Love the Strange Fire Conference — What’s Tough Are Absolute Contradictions

John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference

John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency

Johnny Manziel, Obscenity, and Evangelicalism

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today

The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2

Lance Armstrong, Yawn: Or the Parallel Between Him and Fundagelicals

Let’s Hear It for an Evangelical Proposal of Separation!

Love-Hate Relationship with Fundamentalism pt. 1 (J)

Love-Hate Relationship with Fundamentalism pt. 2 (J)

Love-Hate Relationship with Fundamentalism pt. 3 (J)

Love-Hate Relationship with Fundamentalism pt. 4 (J)

A Major Part of What’s Wrong with Fundamentalism (and Evangelicalism)

Mark These Words: Capitulation on the Diversity of Truth and Beauty Yields Apostasy, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting: An Introduction

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part one

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part two

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part three

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part four

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part five

My Field Trip to the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting part six

Postscript to the ETS Meeting

The Myth of ECx Internalism and Grace

The Normalization of Aberrant Behavior Now in Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

Obvious Disconnects for Evangelicals and Inerrancy

One Stop Shop for Recent Dabblings on Separation Among Evangelicals, and then a Fundamentalist

Opposing Indifferentism: Why Now?

Opposing the Monster He Helped Create

The Pagan Worldview of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

A Paradigm of Evangelical Unbelief

Placing Myself in Tyler’s Report Card On Baptist Fundamentalism

Preaching the Gospel to New Evangelicals?

Psalm 119, The Hate Psalm, and the Practice of Contemporary Christianity

Questions for Non-Revivalist Fundamentalism

Quirks of Fundamentalism Distract from Its Real Problems

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation, part two

Reductio Ad Absurdum: Conservative Evangelicalism Meets the Doctrine of Separation, part three

Tabletalk, R. C. Sproul, and the Evangelical Foray into Ecclesiastical Separation

The Relationship of How Evangelical and Fundamentalist Churches Operate Today to How Our Government Functions

Separation Confusion in So-Called Classic , Historical, or Traditional Fundamentalism

So Theological Presuppositions Are Fine with Biblical Criticism After All?

Southern Baptist Evangelism and Unregenerate Evangelicals

The Sword of the Lord, Really The Scoop Shovel of Revivalism

Taking the Minnick Article on Separation for a Test

The Indifference of Contemporary Fundamentalism (J)

Three Take-Aways from John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference

Thoughtful Fundamentalists?

Two Obvious Contemporary Theological Contradictions and their Meaning part one

Unattainable: A Certain Very Important Thing that God Promised Is Impossible with God to Evangelicals and Many Fundamentalists

What Do You Think Scripturally of Clarence Sexton Speaking at the National Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Meeting? (J)

What Evangelicals Have on Fundamentalists

When a Classification Slanders

When I Left Fundamentalism part one

When I Left Fundamentalism part two

When I Left Fundamentalism part three

When I Left Fundamentalism part four

When I Left Fundamentalism part five

When I Left Fundamentalism part six

When I Left Fundamentalism part seven

When I Left Fundamentalism part eight

When I Left Fundamentalism part nine

When I Left Fundamentalism part ten

Reviewing Why I Can’t Be A Fundamentalist

You Probably Don’t Really Love Jonathan Edward’s Treatise Concerning Religious Affections If You’re a Conservative Evangelical or Fundamentalist 2 Presidential Election

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: DRESS OR APPEARANCE

January 16, 2019 / Leave a comment

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

DRESS OR APPEARANCE

Dress: Gender Distinctions

Ann Taylor, Wear the Pants Campaign: The World Gets It, Just Like It Gets Rock Music

An Apologetic for Men’s Skirts

Concessions As Root Cause of Same Sex Marriage

Does God Require in Dress Visible Symbols of Both Authority and Submission?

Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, You Capitulated On Gender Design Distinction, So Is the Male Skirt a Church Discipline Issue?

Evangelicals Arguing about Pink Hair Dye on Male Church Members

Evangelicals Arguing about Pink Hair Dye on Male Church Members, pt 2

1 Corinthians 11:2-16, Headcoverings, and Historical Doctrine

Gender Distinctions and Professing Christians Not Handling the Truth: Revisiting the Case Study of Bob Jones University

Gender Fluidity: The Destruction of the Symbols That Serve to Distinguish One Gender from Another