Posted on May 31st, 2009 by Shammah
Someone once told me that if I wanted to know if a teaching was true, look at what it asks you to do. If it asks you to do something that Scripture also commands, you can probably trust the teaching. If it asks you to do something different than Scripture commands, throw it out; it’s [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Shammah
Due to working on Christian History for Everyman, I’ve been slow in posting here. I’m working on a page on apostolic succession, however, and it is perfect for a blog entry. The line (uh, here I am quoting myself again) that caught my eye was: Apostolic succession is an argument against the Roman Catholic Church, [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Shammah
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog on the ten commandments. There I argued that the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) split “You shall not covet” into two commands in order to draw attention away from the command they omit, which is “You shall not make any graven image.” My son came to me last [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Shammah
Don’t you hate it when someone announces that “all the scholars know” that Christianity isn’t true; they’re just scared to tell us? I hate it, and it’s baloney. A guy named Bart Ehrman has written a book called Jesus, Interrupted, claiming just that sort of thing. He tells us things like: Only 8 of the [...]
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