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Jesus and Stephen In an effort to get the reader to think that Stephen prayed to Jesus, Hallenbeck tries to make the first martyr\u u2019s situation parallel to what Jesus did on the cross. In so doing, he walks all the way around the barn, but the two circumstances
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The reader of the book under investigation, Praying to Jesus: An Examination, will notice three things before he proceeds very far: The book is filled with the quotations of men rather than an examination of the Scriptures. (In fact, if the book only examined the Scriptures, instead of being 200
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Chapter 4 comprises the bulk of Andrew Hallenbeck’s book, Praying to Jesus. The author sets forth several Biblical passages, attempting to show that the New Testament teaches that Christians ought to pray directly to Jesus rather than going through Him to the Father. He repeats the same arguments several
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A few months ago, the book with the above title was called to my attention. I had written several articles previously on this topic. Below are their titles and where they can be found. spiritualperspectives.org – “Praying to Jesus?”; 4-27-03. spiritualperspectives.org – “Praying to Jesus” (Response to Christian
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"Crisis Over LGBT Issues Grips United Methodist Church" informs the headline at the top of page A16 in the Sunday, February 24, 2019 edition of the Orlando Sentinel. However, this is just the beginning of what proved to be an interesting series of articles. One might say that
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"Does baptism have the power to save people?" The inspired apostle Peter answers, "Yes." The uninspired apostate, Max Lucado, answers a resounding "No!" according to the Oak Hills Church website. Now someone will surely think that his answer was taken out of context. No,
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The words apostate and apostasy do not appear in the King James Version of the Bible, but the Greek word from which they are derived does. In fact, there are two Greek words—apostasia and apostasion. This latter word is translated “divorcement” and refers to the falling away of a
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JOURNEY (NO, NOT THE BAND) What does it take to get the attention of the Religion Department at the Orlando Sentinel? Not the Scriptures; they haven't presented any messages from the Word of God lately, although if you pay them, they will publish it. If you send in
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This article is not about political parties. Anyone with a sense of history knows that we began with two major parties known as the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist political organizations. Since that time have emerged the Whig parties, the Know-Nothing, the Bull Moose, Communist, Green, Socialist, and mostly
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"SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW US" Every so often someone comes along with a saying or an argument that has been answered many times. So, we answer it again. One of those relates to Mark 9:38-40 or the even shorter account in Luke 9:49-50.
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Despite the fact that no authority exists to use instruments of music in worship during the Christian era, some keep trying to justify their use. Over the past 150 years, some of the wildest and most illogical schemes have been concocted in an effort to do what some are going