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Does Doctrine Matter?

President James Monroe on December 2, 1823 first communicated the “Monroe Doctrine” in his State of the Union address to Congress. The Monroe Doctrine viewed any foreign intervention in the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, as a potentially hostile act against the United States. One might ask Spain and Japan whether the Monroe Doctrine matters. These […]

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Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part six)

Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four    Part Five When someone gets toward the end of preaching the gospel, he explains belief.  God saves those who believe in Jesus Christ.  All over the internet and then on paper churches do not say, believe in Jesus Christ, something that simple.  No, […]

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Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part five)

Part One     Part Two     Part Three    Part Four Explaining Belief In my experience, which includes a very large sample size over several decades now, people can understand a biblical explanation of belief.  I say to a person, “Jesus did everything that needed to be done for you to be saved, but how […]

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Baptismal Regeneration: Acts 22:16

Requiring Baptism for Salvation Definition and Denominations “Baptismal Regeneration” in its definition at Wikipedia says: Baptismal regeneration is the name given to doctrines held by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican churches, and other Protestant denominations which maintain that salvation is intimately linked to the act of baptism, without necessarily holding that salvation […]

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John 3:36, the Second “Believeth” (Apeitheo), and English Translation of the Bible

The King James Version (KJV) of John 3:36 reads: He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. The English Standard Version (ESV) reads: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey […]

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