Proclaiming the Gospel with Evidence to All Peoples Everywhere
Legend has it that coffee originated in the Kingdom of Kefa (present day Ethiopia) in the tenth century B.C. Today’s coffee gets its name from its southern Arabian roots (Yemen) from Sufi monks who cultivated the plants in the fifteenth century A.D.
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By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
At His trial, Jesus told Pontius Pilate that He had “come into the world to bear witness to the truth.” Pilate cynically replied, “What is truth?” (John 18:37-38). That is precisely the question in this third and final discussion on Christian doctrinal variation: What is the authority for Christian faith and practice?
In the previous two parts, I featured the Gospel of salvation (grace alone [sola gratia] through faith alone [sola fide]) and the nature of Jesus (the man Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God [solus Christus]).
Here I want to examine how various “Christian” groups measure up to the Protestant Reformers’ position that final authority is exclusive to Scripture (sola scriptura). A corollary to that is whether some “Christian” groups might have a “different spirit” (2 Corinthians 11:4).
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From one man he [God] made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact place where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him…for in him we live and move and have our being.
Acts 17:26-28, NIV
Source: World Magazine, June 1, 2024, p. 18.
According to a Pew Research Center poll in 2017, there are as many adults in the U.S. who hold to at least one New Age belief as there are who believe in God (62%)! For the survey, people were asked their view of four New Age concepts:
Can one’s self-image be affected by involvement in social media? Yes, according to an unscientific study of sixty-six female freshmen at York University.
Half refrained from all social media, the other half continued. After one week, the abstainers scored significantly better on questionnaires rating body image satisfaction and self-esteem than the women in the other group.
Source: World Magazine, June 1, 2024, p. 74
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