What is the Gospel What’s the best piece of news you ever received? Maybe it was the day the love of your life said “yes” when you asked, on your knees, if she would marry you. Maybe it was the news that you’d just landed your dream job, the one you’d been aiming at for […]
“What are the lost books of the Bible?”……Answer: There are no "lost books" of the Bible, or books that were taken out of the Bible, or books missing from the Bible. Every book that God intended and inspired to be in the Bible is in the Bible. There are many legends and rumors of lost […]
The Atrakhasis Epic Spelt many different ways, the Atra-Hasis Epic is a Mesopotamian ancient record of Creation and the Flood dating from the seventeenth century BC, named after Atrahasis the “exceedingly wise” figure of narrative. It is of interest, particularly to biblical archaeologists, as there are similarities with the record of Creation and the Flood […]
“What is the Nag Hammadi library?”……Nag Hammadi is a town in northern Egypt where a collection of ancient writings was discovered in 1945. The collection of writings has since been titled the Nag Hammadi library, or the Nag Hammadi scrolls, or the Nag Hammadi codices. The vast majority of the scrolls in the Nag Hammadi […]
INTRODUCTION Ôö¼┬« Rosemary Bardsley 2007 The title of this study series, 'How to deal with false teaching', assumes a number of facts: 1. That there is such a thing as 'false teaching' 2. That there is such a thing as teaching that is not 'false' 3. That, in a fundamental and eternal sense, it actually […]
Study 1: know the bible's perspective on human ideologies Throughout the Bible there is clear evidence that belief in the God who claims in the Bible to be the only true God, has, since Genesis 3, been repeatedly either distorted or replaced by other belief systems or ideologies. The rejection of the word and the […]
Study 8: Know the key areas of doctrine affected by false teaching False teaching is exactly that: false teaching. Part of the subtlety of false teaching, and part of the ease with which it deceives people is due to the fact that a lot of what false teachers write or say is true, or sounds […]