Because Christianity became predominantly Gentile, it seemed as though God had abandoned Israel, and as though Gentiles had simply taken the place of Jews in God’s plan. But that was certainly not how Paul saw it! Of course he himself contrasted the old and the new … But he maintained to the end that God … Continue reading “CHRISTIANITY
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CHRISTIANS
The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor’s goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind. Aristides The … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS”
CHRISTIANITY, DESTRUCTION OF
It is at least possible that we are the generation of believers who will destroy much of historic Christianity from within – not, in the first instance, by rancid unbelief, but by raising relatively peripheral questions to the place where, functionally, they displace what is central. D.A. Carson. The greatest threat to the cause of … Continue reading “CHRISTIANITY,
DESTRUCTION OF”
CHRISTIANITY, NEW TESTAMENT
The Christianity of the New Testament simply does not exist. Millions of people through the centuries have little by little cheated God out of Christianity, and have succeeded in making Christianity exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament. Søren Kierkegaard
CHRISTIANITY, SPREAD OF
The gospel will be spread abroad over the seas and the islands in the ocean, and among the people dwelling therein, who are called “the fulness thereof.” And that word has been made good. For churches of Christ fill all the islands, and are being multiplied every day, and the teaching of the Word of … Continue reading “CHRISTIANITY,
SPREAD OF”
PENTECOST
His students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered, they were roused to an enlarged understanding of divine Science. Mary Baker Eddy
RESURRECTION OF JESUS
His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was hidden in the sepulcher, whereas he was alive. Mary Baker Eddy
TRINITY
The theory of three person in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggest polytheism. Mary Baker Eddy __________
GOD’S WRATH
One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner’s part. That God’s wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made. Mary Baker Eddy
JESUS’ BLOOD
The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon “the accursed tree,” than when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father’s business. Mary Baker Eddy