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his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless” (James 1:26,27). The Greek word that he uses is threskeia, meaning “worship or ...

organizational, all of which are inadequate to consider the radical uniqueness of Christianity. The story is told of Gautama Bud ...

Jesus did not say anything like that! In fact, what Buddha said is contrary to everything Jesus taught, and everything recorded ...

his mistake in renouncing another religion for what he perceived to be the “Christian religion.” The professor asked Mr. Singh, ...

Their conversation eventually included a discussion of the extent to which the peoples of Indonesia had converted from the predo ...

Mohammedanism (Islam), and Judaism. The ideologies of humanism and communism have also been identified as religions, as well as ...

out of Buddhism and still have the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. You can take Mohammed out of Islam, and still have ...

tomorrow. It does not require God in Christ for the “Christian religion” to function; just man and money! Genuine Christianity, ...

it cannot properly be compared with the “world religions.” All attempts to do so have preemptively reduced Christianity into its ...

realized that Jesus was comparing their religious modus operandi with the function of the spiritual reign of God that He came to ...

Second Corinthians, Paul carefully differentiates between gospel ministry by the grace of God and the manipulations of religious ...

overcome and secularize Christianity as it was doing in the seven churches of Asia. Jesus is the victor over religion 25 , thoug ...

“Christian religion” could only offer their brand of religion that “tied” people to a belief-system and “bound” them to moralist ...

religious methodology of recruitment by propaganda in order to “bind, tie and attach” increasing numbers of people to the propos ...

codification of behavior to conform to, or a sociological institution to join and be involved in, Christians will allow the livi ...

others. The desire to be accepted is appeased as religion offers to accept a person “just as they are,” until further instructed ...

desire to possess is titillated by the “health and wealth” gospel that falsely asserts that “God wants you rich.” The need to gi ...

record of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ as the basis of their belief-systems and morality codes. Major W. Ian Thomas wri ...

Christianity that takes place in religion will of necessity be identified with the activity of the Evil One. Norman Olson explai ...

religion. Indeed it is “natural” for man to form religions, for “the natural man does not understand spiritual things” (I Cor. 2 ...