Tag Archives: heresies

Better than Benny Hinn

This actually made more sense to me than most of the things I’ve seen on TBN. (Actually it makes me sad. I’ve met some good preachers, and I listen to one every Sunday. Don’t pretend that this is preaching. Having said that, the content level is about the same as we [...]

What’s the difference?

It’s that time of year again.
She told us how, once Joseph Smith had visited the Hill Cumorah at Moroni’s prompting and dug up the golden plates on which the Book of Mormon was written, he had hidden them from the greedy people of Palmyra in various spots around the house. He had listened to the [...]

Mary, the virgin queen

In the combox of the preceding post, Charlie asks the following question:
I think the usual Catholic response to this is that the word used for brothers here can mean close relatives. Would you care to comment on that?
Dagnabit! No, not really.
But I guess I should at least try to say a few [...]

Did Jesus have any siblings?

A common question which crops up among Christians and non-Christians alike is, was Mary the mother of Jesus perpetually a virgin? Or perhaps to ask it another way, did Jesus have any siblings? I thought I’d collate the relevant verses (in my view, and so far as I’m aware, at least) and let [...]

Window into the mind

I realize that posting is very much hit-or-miss lately, but I have been working over a number of things I want to talk about:

I want to finish the testimony, or at least get started on the “Mary vs. Israel” post in earnest
I really really want to take on universalism, and use this forum to get [...]

Piper on universalism

From a sermon by John Piper about Christ as the Alpha and Omega:
There are many Christians today, not to mention people who reject Christianity, who do not believe in the eternality of hell. They do not believe that the lake of fire is anybody’s omega. Some reject the thought altogether; others say it is a [...]

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