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Hannah W. Smith and The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, part 2 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. Search for: “Hannah wrote her book out of a conviction that Higher Life or […]
The Bible and Circular Reasoning
One decries circular reasoning with reasoning. By what does he reason? The laws of logic. He assumes the laws of logic to argue his position. How does one prove the laws of logic without logic? Hence, the one complaining of circular reasoning depends on circular reasoning for his argument against it. One proves the laws […]
Unattainable: A Certain Very Important Thing that God Promised Is Impossible with God to Evangelicals and Many Fundamentalists
In Matthew 19:26, Jesus said, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. “Impossible” translates the Greek word adunatos, which means, “incapable of happening or being done.” It is a compound word — “a,” meaning, “not,” and “dunatos,” meaning, “able” — hence, “impossible.” On his blog, canon fodder (excellent blog name […]
Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic, part 1 of 21
This entire 21-part study appears on the FaithSaves.net website in a study entitled “Hannah Whitall Smith: Higher Life Writer, Speaker on Sanctification, Developer of the Keswick Theology, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic.” Click here to read the entire study. This post started at the beginning of that longer work.
Most Recent Family Picture and Word of Truth Conference Audio for 2014
I’d like to write something else this week, but what you’re going to get first is two recent pictures of my family, since my son was able to come home for Thanksgiving. This is the latest picture of my family in our back yard. And then number two is that I’ve got most of the […]
Historiography, Bible Doctrine, and the Text of Scripture
Historiography as it stands today refers to the methodology used by historians to decide history. It covers the approach a historian will use for judging what happened in the past. This is important to Bible doctrine, because there is a history to Bible doctrine, and to the text of scripture, because there is a history […]
Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 3 of 3
The last two Fridays we have looked at the question of whether the lost need to ask Jesus into their hearts, and have provided ten reasons why the answer is “no.” We will look now at four final reasons. 11.) Nobody asked Jesus to come into his heart to be saved for the overwhelming majority […]
Delusional Disconnect and Legitimate Demonstration
The French supported the American revolution. Then most Americans started supporting the French revolution, until they were revolted by what took awhile to hear across the Atlantic. The American revolution proceeded from Great Awakening and its resultant natural rights. The French Revolution was spawned by dead religion and consequential paganism. We see the French model […]
Are the Qualifications for the Office of the Pastor Also Disqualifications?
The Apostle Paul in two of the pastoral epistles lists qualifications for the office of the pastor of a church. In 1 Timothy 3:2-7, in the form of a list, they are blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine no striker […]
Ask Jesus into your Heart? 14 Reasons not to, part 2 of 3
Do the lost need to ask Jesus into their hearts in order to be saved? Last Friday we saw five reasons why the answer is “no”! Here are reasons #6-10. 6.) Asking Jesus to come into your heart confuses the means of salvation with a result of salvation. When a lost sinner, enabled by […]
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