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You Can’t Separate the Distorted Doctrine from Its Deviant Source of Allegorical Interpretation
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Doctrine, False or True, Emerges from Interpretation When you read a doctrinal statement, you might see scripture references attached as proof texts for the various doctrinal pronouncements. That could serve to signal that the doctrine comes from the Bible. Someone might use a verse […]
What Does the Apostle Paul Mean When He Says “One Body”?
The Terminology “One Body” The Apostle Paul uses the two words “one body” eleven times in his epistles. Theologians, teachers, and others have perverted the meaning of the expression, “one body,” through the years, reading into it something not there. They over complicate it to see one of their presuppositions and twist it like a […]
The Nature of the Church
As I’ve reminded you in the past, I’ve got several series going, which include the following: The Moral Nature of God (part one, part two, part three, part four) Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six) Biblical Equality and the Societally Destructive Lie […]
Local Only Ecclesiology and Historical Theology
My graduate school required a large amount of theology, which included the branch of historical theology. Before I took the class, I must admit, I had not thought much about the category. I know men introduced historical theology to me at different times and varied manners in other classes, but it became important to me […]
Debunking of Nine Marks Dual Church View: Both Universal and Local Churches, Part Three
Part One Part Two Nowhere does scripture make a connection between an earthly church and then a final heavenly church. Neoplatonic Christianity or professing Christianity invented this idea, one borrowed by Jonathan Leeman in his article, The Church: Universal and Local, for the 9 Marks parachurch organization. A believer in a salvific way has […]
Debunking of Nine Marks Dual Church View: Both Universal and Local Churches, Part Two
Part One The word “church” in the English translation of the New Testament, like Nine Marks wrote in its online article by Jonathan Leeman, means “assembly.” “Universal assembly” is an oxymoron, yet still firmly held by Catholics, Protestants, evangelicals, and fundamentalists against its incoherence and contradiction. Why? How? Neoplatonism is a philosophical and religious system, […]
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