: “What is a pagan? What is paganism?”……Answer: From a Christian viewpoint, pagans are generally characterized as those who are caught up in any religious ceremony, act, or practice that is not distinctly Christian. Correspondingly, Jews and Muslims also use the term "pagans" to describe those outside their religion. Others define the term "paganism" as […]
“What is Panentheism?”……Answer: Related to Process Theology, panentheism is essentially a combination of theism (God is the supreme being) and pantheism (God is everything). While pantheism says that God and the universe are coextensive, panentheism claims the God is greater than the universe and that the universe is contained within God. Panentheism holds that God […]
“What is the New Atheism?”……The early 21st century has seen secularism and atheism promoted throughout the Western world with an ever-increasing vigor and militancy. This has led to the emergence of the "new atheists," notable members of which include best-selling authors such as Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens.……The contention of the […]
“What is open theism?”……"Open theism," also known as "openness theology" and the "openness of God," is an attempt to explain the foreknowledge of God in relationship to the free will of man. The argument of open theism is essentially this: Human beings are truly free; Claims that the future is not knowable. Therefore, God knows […]
“What is the New Age movement?”……The expression "New Age" came into existence in the 1970s and 1980s. It was encouraged by the circulation of the New Age Journal and a book by Mark Satin called New Age Politics. Marilyn Ferguson's best-selling Aquarian Conspiracy was a presentation of the social agenda and philosophical vision of the […]
“What is the Hebrew Roots movement?”……The premise of the Hebrew Roots movement is the belief that the Christian Church has veered far from the true teachings and Hebrew concepts of the Bible. The movement maintains that Christianity has been indoctrinated with the culture and beliefs of Greek and Roman philosophy and that ultimately biblical Christianity, […]
“What is glossolalia?”……Answer: Glossolalia, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as "ecstatic utterances," is the uttering of unintelligible, language-like sounds while in a state of ecstasy. Glossolalia is sometimes confused with xenoglossia, which is the biblical "gift of tongues." However, whereas glossolalia is babbling in a nonexistent language, xenoglossia is the ability to speak fluently a […]