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Myles Kantor on nominal Christianity:

[Today], religion is often about personal sentiment and preference instead of doctrine and obedience. The preacher Paul Washer has stated in this vein:

“When you take a look at American Christianity, it is based more upon a godless culture than it is upon the word of God.”

“Most of our Christianity is based on cliches that we read on the back of Christian t-shirts. Most of our Christianity comes from songwriters and not the Bible. Most of what we believe to be true is dictated to us by our culture and not the Bible.” [Read more...]

In his book Church History: A Crash Course for the Curious, Christopher Catherwood made a very interesting observation.

He mentioned that people have no trouble accepting the historicity of Julius Caesar’s accounts in Gallic Wars, a book that he purportedly wrote about his conquests in what we now know as France. The problem is that according to archaeology, Gallic Wars was actually written 900 years after the death of Julius Caesar!

The Bible, on the other hand, has thousands of proofs that are archaeologically precise. It is referenced in many other writings in that period, both in Christian literature and in secular writings. Interestingly, despite the overwhelming body of evidence that favor the authenticity of the Bible, people still consider it as scientifically unproven. [Read more...]

The Christian religion is neither a set of intellectual convictions nor a bundle of emotional feelings. It is a compound of both, the intellectual giving birth to the emotional aspect.

This means that your emotional responses to the gospel should be properly guided by your correct understanding of the teachings of Christ. You can’t just go crying or shouting because you feel warm inside. That’s pure emotionalism.

If you ever get emotional, it should be because you first understood something liberating. People who scream too much and dance too much in their worship should make sure that their reason for doing so is based on a clear understanding of the gospel and not on the false hype the preacher or worship leader incited them to. [Read more...]