In speaking of the activity of faith, we believe that faith includes knowing. There have always been those who wish to separate faith from knowledge and to see faith as "blind" acceptance or trust. This is especially common today. Roman Catholicism has always taught that faith and knowledge can be separated, especially in its teaching …
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Denying Total Depravity!
Augustine, in the early fifth century after Christ had confronted the apparent refutation of his and the Christian church's doctrine of total depravity by the seeming good works of the heathens. Not all were fornicators and adulterers; some were loyal to wife and family. Not all were lawless threats to their society and nation; some …
The Only Begotten Son!
The name only begotten Son of God! What a wealth of glorious truth there is in the name of our Saviour! Everything else we believe about him depends on the truth of this name. If he were not the only begotten Son of God, he would be nothing to us. The name is part of …
The Preference for the ‘Call’ of the Gospel!
There are many who prefer to speak of the gospel as an "offer" rather than a call. It is interesting, to say the least, that scripture never uses the word offer to describe the gospel. We have no objection to the word offer as such. In its older sense in means only that in the …
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