“What is Pantheism?”……Answer: Pantheism is the view that God is everything and everyone and that everyone and everything is God. Pantheism is similar to polytheism (the belief in many gods), but goes beyond polytheism to teach that everything is God. A tree is God, a rock is God, an animal is God, the sky is […]
“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 are Sabellianism, Modalism, and Monarchianism?”……Answer: One of the most hotly debated theological issues in the early Christian church was the doctrine of the Trinity. How do God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit relate to one another? How can there only be one God, but three Persons? All of the […]
“What is Secular humanism?”……Answer: The ideal of secular humanism is mankind itself as a part of uncreated, eternal nature; its goal is man's self-remediation without reference to or help from God. Secular humanism grew out of the 18th century enlightenment and 19th century freethinking. Some Christians might be surprised to learn that they actually share […]
“What is Ultra-dispensationalism?”……Answer: In order to understand what ultra-dispensationalism is (also known as hyper-dispensationalism) let's first begin by defining what the word dispensationalism means. The word dispensation means stewardship or administration and dispensationalism is simply a system of biblical interpretation that recognizes a distinction between the Church (i.e. the body of Christ) and Israel. Dispensationalism […]
“What is Socinianism?”……Answer: Socinianism is an unorthodox form of non-trinitarianism that was developed around the same time as the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) by Italian humanist Lelio Sozzini and later promulgated by his cousin, Fausto Sozzini. In modern times Socinianism has been referred to as psilanthropism, the view that Jesus was merely human (from the Greek […]
“What is Theistic evolution?”……Answer: Theistic evolution is one of three major origin-of-life worldviews, the other two being atheistic evolution (also commonly known as Darwinian evolution and naturalistic evolution) and special creation.……Atheistic evolution says that there is no God and that life can and did emerge naturally from preexisting, non-living building blocks under the influence of […]