Study 7: Understand the importance of our minds Contemporary Christianity displays a serious ignorance of the importance of our minds. One could say that contemporary popular Christianity has for a large part abdicated its mind. In its emphasis on unity, on experience, on feelings and on relationship it appears to have overlooked the biblical emphasis […]
Study 2:Know the fundamental difference between the truth and false teaching When we contrast the New Testament description of the truth with its description of false teaching, we realise that there is a fundamental difference between the two which underlies the differences between their content, their mode of operation, and their impact. a.The true truth […]
Study 9: Recognize false teaching today Note: Please read the previous study before reading this study. This study has the potential to offend. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is [1] to honour and preserve God's truth revealed in his written Word, by contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, and [2] […]
Should the gospel of Thomas be in the Canon?……The early church councils followed something similar to the following principles to determine whether a New Testament book was truly inspired by the Holy Spirit: 1) Was the author an apostle or have a close connection with an apostle? 2) Was the book being accepted by the […]
Gnostics Gnostic Gospels & Gnosticism A one-sentence description of Gnosticism: a religion that differentiates the evil god of this world (who is identified with the god of the Old Testament) from a higher more abstract God revealed by Jesus Christ, a religion that regards this world as the creation of a series of evil archons/powers […]
“What is the gospel of Judas?”……Answer: Sometime in the 1970s, in a cave in Egypt, a copy of the "gospel of Judas" was discovered. The circumstances of the discovery have been described as shady, with those who possessed the copy asking for exorbitant amounts of money for the codex. For decades, no institution was willing […]
Gnosticism Gnosticism is a term used to describe systems of religion, often within Christianity but sometimes outside it, in which knowledge (Greek gnosis) is a key feature in human redemption. The world is seen as evil, created by another god than the supreme God, and humanbeings are imprisoned in it. But there is a divine […]