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parodies of the religious premises and practices of Pharisaical Judaism. The book of Acts is an historical narrative of nascent ...

of grace with external morality strictures. They wanted to keep a legalistic law-based morality; the very thing Jesus had come t ...

shifted from the mainspring of the Christian life in the person of Christ Himself to the periphery of outward conformity and dai ...

There are no distinct and definable moral absolutes apart from God in Jesus Christ, and deriving the expression of His absolute ...

the spiritual question, gets back to the essence of the revelation in Christ, and from this derives some models of conduct that ...

morality. To the extent that we accept, advocate or observe morality, and try to live and "be good" based on precepts or princip ...

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Chapter Four CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A BELIEF-SYSTEM Remember the story that was related about Gautama Buddha in chaper one? Allow m ...

If Jesus Christ had said something like that, it would certainly legitimize what we see all around us in so-called "Christian re ...

is not just another religion demanding conformity to a particular "belief-system" or data-base of doctrine. The essence of Chris ...

Christians today seem to be abysmally ignorant of church history. A quick review of church history will assist in answering the ...

into moralistic and ethical religious rules and into creedalistic concepts of correct content of thought. They so quickly let go ...

Augustine lived and wrote in the century following the Nicene Council. His Augustinian theology, on which Calvin later based muc ...

During the Renaissance Period the thinking of "Christian religion" just followed along like a lap-dog to the philosophers and sc ...

system in accord with God's thinking. There were Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists and many others, all claiming to have the or ...

although "doctrine" used to mean "teaching" or "instruction," that definition is now regarded as "archaic" or "obsolete." What d ...

interpreted and accepted by a particular group of people." "Indoctrinate" implies "to propagandize or brainwash others with this ...

the factious and fractious denominationalism of differing belief-systems. Americans, with their fierce individualism and concept ...

supreme issue. "Doctrine" becomes their basis of fellowship, acceptance, security, bonding, etc. It is a tragic misrepresentatio ...

The Scottish preacher and teacher, James S. Stewart, wrote these words: "Those who have succeeded in defining doctrine most clos ...