... would he have pronounced our church Apostate? It's an important question to ask! Yet many find the question insulting because faithfulness involves the truth of God doctrine. Doctrine isn't very popular in our churches. You can almost hear the words of II Timothy 4:3 "For the time will come when they ... . I have no doubt that Saul meant well when he spared the sheep and oxen for sacrifices and yet it was contrary to the commands of God a spitting in God's face. Are we going to be like a Saul or a Samuel someone who is merely sincere OR? Someone who is committed to the truth! ... 4. Bib...

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... , perhaps it would serve a good purpose to list a few of those differences in belief. Scripture and Tradition Catholic Teaching The Bible and Tradition are equally authoritative channels of God's revelation. "Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence" (82). "'Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single sacred ... the Christian "thoroughly furnished" (completely equipped) for "all good works." No other source of revelation is needed. Justification Catholic Teaching Justification, by which a person is made righteous...

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... natural impurities, defects, and inconveniences. They will be beautiful and modest and secluded from public view in pavilions of hollow pearls. The pleasures o! f Paradise will be so overwhelming that God will give to everyone the potentialities of a hundred individuals. To each individual a large mansion swill be assigned, and the very meanest will have at his disposal at least 80,000 ... church affairs through bishops and priests. Members of this church accept the gospel of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Bible, as well as the church's interpretations of these. God's grace is conv...

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... , particularly the widespread practice of selling indulgences in association with the sacrament of penance. Luther's beliefs on the matter was that after confession, absolution relied upon the sinner's faith and God's Divine Grace rather than the intervention of a priest. At this point, Luther did not advocate an actual separation from the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, Luther felt his suggested reforms ... .' 'Nothing justifies except faith, and nothing makes sinful except unbelief.' 'Unbelief is sin altogether.' 'Therefore the word 'sin' includes what we are living and doing besides th...

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... exorcise a bad case of P.M.S. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1st Corinthians 12:1-11 is the main section of the Bible dealing with spiritual gifts. Spiritual gifts are special gifts distributed to some of God's people. The first thing that should be understood about these gifts is that they are not distributed to all Christians. They are special gifts distributed to a select few. The gifts ... today, concerning spiritual gifts is "are they still around?" The debate is divided into the Cessationists and Charismatics or Perpetuists. The Cessationists, deriving from the wo...

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... three days, Christ was resurrected from the dead. With the Resurrection of Christ, his disciples took heart and went about preaching the Kingdom of God to all the people of the world. Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire where it was made the state religion in the 4th century AD ... of the persecution against the Christian Church. As the persecution increased, the disciples scattered around the world. Those who scattered preached the word of God, wherever they went. This helped to spread the Gospel around the world. It was against the law of Jews to associate with a Gentiles o...

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... war against the religious people of the world. To me this poses a serious question. People who give their life to the service of God should have the guidance to do God's work. Take me for example, I make mistakes and sin all the time. My sins, although no worse or better than anyone else ... 's are the sins of a layperson. I am not a representative of God. So, if these people constantly ask for God's guidance and are in an environment that should have God's will as their priority, how do these crimes occur? One has only to look at one of the oldest ... case. The money was being used by t...

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... church life and practice. What made Luther's protest potentially revolutionary, however, was its theological basis. A troubled and brooding man, anxious about his relationship with God, Luther had recently come to a new understanding of salvation: that it came through "faith alone". Neither the good works of the sinner nor the sacraments ... of the church had any bearing on the eternal destiny of the soul, for faith was a free gift from God, graciously granted to needy sinners. To Luther the source of these beliefs, and of religious authority in general, was not the teaching of the chur...

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... Catholic Church. Historically, the unequal power structure between the different genders (male and female) in the Hebrew Bible relegated women and placed them in positions of objective powerlessness. And despite God's plan for equality between men and women through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:28) and the fight for women's emancipation by various advocacy groups and individuals, which has led to a huge ... Article 2 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which stipulates that everyone is entitled to equal rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind e.g. sex, relig...

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... . The Victorian period dragged marriage into the closet. Sex was something embarrassing and improper with a quiet understanding that married couples engaged in marital relations, without pleasure and as duty and God dictated for the purpose of procreation. Until as recently as 20 years ago, in some areas of North America women still needed a husband's signature to obtain a credit card or mortgage ... ...

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... was method according to Drake. Galileo said " it is necessary first to teach the reform of the human mind, and render it capable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, which only God can do"(pg. 14). Drake convinces me through these words that Galileo provides an innovative approach with clear connections to how science is conducted today without any scientific analysis of ... ...

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... . VI. Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation, and without mercy. VII. Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God. VIII. Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful to thy pledged word. IX. Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to everyone. X. Thou shalt be everywhere and always the ... ...

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