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Faithful brethren have always held that the Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each personality possesses the attributes of Deity. Roy Lanier expressed it this way in his notable work, The Timeless Trinity for Ceaseless Centuries: When we speak of the unity of God, we
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Appendix B discusses proper worship involving both logic (in truth) and emotion (in spirit). All brethren would likely agree with what is presented here (185-89), which leaves us with only the four pages of the "conclusion" to consider. Hallenbeck says that he abhors "the idea that,
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The shortest chapter in Andrew Hallenbeck\ book, Praying to Jesus, except for the conclusion, is chapter 5, "Is 'Calling Upon' Prayer?" (145-50). The reason he needs to answer the question, "Yes," is that he thinks he needs it for his next chapter about
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The remainder of chapter four continues with material that, for the most part, either does not address the topic or reiterates what has already been said. Pages 137-41, for example, show that each member of the Godhead possesses the same characteristics—something we all know and agree with. The
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The first twenty pages of Andrew Hallenbeck u2019s interminably long fourth chapter of his book that enjoins brethren to pray to Jesus presents the Scriptural evidence that supports (he thinks) his thesis; apparently his jalopy ran out of gas (not to mention the missing wheels) at this point; so he
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Worshiping the Son Andrew Hallenbeck often takes little excursions into friendly territory only to try to pit the rest of us against familiar ground. He spends most of pages 56-59 showing that Jesus is worthy of worship and honor—something which did not have to be demonstrated to any
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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