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By Joseph Stanley
The unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI followed by the election of Pope Francis of quite a different mould has introduced into the Church not more theological discourse, but signifi cant theological action � a constant preaching, where words are used only when necessary. This book presents four essays starting with an imaginary trajectory of the Church during the next hundred years � where a new style of leadership in the church renews its strength and vigour by co-opting competent and committed laity. Will this dream ever be realized? The contention of the author is that it can, because his dreams are consonant with the doctrinal heritage of the Catholic Church, as he indicates in the notes. His prayer and wish is that it becomes a reality. The second essay suggests a pastoral approach that could pave the way to facilitate the emergence of such a situation. The third essay is a theological elaboration of the place of the teaching authority of the church. The fourth essay is a short article which indicates that change has taken place and will continue to take place in the Church.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Joseph Stanley
The unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI followed by the election of Pope Francis of quite a different mould has introduced into the Church not more theological discourse, but signifi cant theological action � a constant preaching, where words are used only when necessary. This book presents four essays starting with an imaginary trajectory of the Church during the next hundred years � where a new style of leadership in the church renews its strength and vigour by co-opting competent and committed laity. Will this dream ever be realized? The contention of the author is that it can, because his dreams are consonant with the doctrinal heritage of the Catholic Church, as he indicates in the notes. His prayer and wish is that it becomes a reality. The second essay suggests a pastoral approach that could pave the way to facilitate the emergence of such a situation. The third essay is a theological elaboration of the place of the teaching authority of the church. The fourth essay is a short article which indicates that change has taken place and will continue to take place in the Church.
FORMAT: E-Book
By JOS SALINS
For nearly five hundred years the Doctrine of Predestination as propounded by John Calvin has held sway over the western Christian church and its theology. Many of the major protestant denominations are predominantly Calvinistic. Is the Doctrine of Predestination Scriptural? Do the Five Points of Calvinism have sound Scriptural support? Author Jos Salins carefully examines the Five Points of Calvinism and exposes the errors in these doctrines and the fact that none of them are supported by Scripture as assumed by Calvinists. He brings a new understanding of Romans chapter 9 - the chapter which was fundamental to the formulation of the Doctrine of Predestination by John Calvin and before him his mentor, St. Augustine of Hippo. This book is compelling, thoroughly Scriptural and scholarly, yet written in a style that is readable and understandable by anyone, and does not necessarily require of the reader a theological background as a prerequisite. Its content will have a tremendous impact on the Calvinistic world and on Calvinism as a whole and will shake it to its very foundations, with far reaching implications. This is a must read for every thinking Christian.
FORMAT: Softcover
By JOS SALINS
For nearly five hundred years the Doctrine of Predestination as propounded by John Calvin has held sway over the western Christian church and its theology. Many of the major protestant denominations are predominantly Calvinistic. Is the Doctrine of Predestination Scriptural? Do the Five Points of Calvinism have sound Scriptural support? Author Jos Salins carefully examines the Five Points of Calvinism and exposes the errors in these doctrines and the fact that none of them are supported by Scripture as assumed by Calvinists. He brings a new understanding of Romans chapter 9 - the chapter which was fundamental to the formulation of the Doctrine of Predestination by John Calvin and before him his mentor, St. Augustine of Hippo. This book is compelling, thoroughly Scriptural and scholarly, yet written in a style that is readable and understandable by anyone, and does not necessarily require of the reader a theological background as a prerequisite. Its content will have a tremendous impact on the Calvinistic world and on Calvinism as a whole and will shake it to its very foundations, with far reaching implications. This is a must read for every thinking Christian.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Gerald Sigal
The author of the Gospel of Matthew sought to portray alleged events in the life of Jesus as fulfillments of biblical passages.� Ample evidence has shown that there is no validity to his claims. Luke�s author merely states that a virginal conception took place.� Both present a story their readers can relate to from the familiar Hellenistic worldview:� a god impregnates a virgin thereby sending his hybrid son into the world to do a certain task.� Matthew and Luke are not the originators of the core belief that a virginal conception took place.� According to the Gospels, Mary conceived as a divinely impregnated virgin betrothed to a Davidic descendant named Joseph.� If there was no biological relationship between Joseph and the child Mary bore, the story presented is not pertinent to the claim that Jesus is the Davidic Messiah on the basis of Joseph�s lineage.� That Matthew and Luke solely through Joseph trace Jesus� lineage in two variant forms becomes a meaningless exercise.� As it became clear that attempts to connect Jesus to David through Joseph were futile, efforts were made to make the connection through Mary by claiming one or the other genealogy was really hers.� It is to no avail.� This too has failed.� What most Christians do now is live in a theological state of denial maintaining that there are no real problems only unbelievers quibbling over minor points.� Alas!� What else can Christian believers do, but hide their heads in a theological sand box and blame quibblers?� �
FORMAT: Softcover
By Gerald Sigal
The author of the Gospel of Matthew sought to portray alleged events in the life of Jesus as fulfillments of biblical passages.� Ample evidence has shown that there is no validity to his claims. Luke�s author merely states that a virginal conception took place.� Both present a story their readers can relate to from the familiar Hellenistic worldview:� a god impregnates a virgin thereby sending his hybrid son into the world to do a certain task.� Matthew and Luke are not the originators of the core belief that a virginal conception took place.� According to the Gospels, Mary conceived as a divinely impregnated virgin betrothed to a Davidic descendant named Joseph.� If there was no biological relationship between Joseph and the child Mary bore, the story presented is not pertinent to the claim that Jesus is the Davidic Messiah on the basis of Joseph�s lineage.� That Matthew and Luke solely through Joseph trace Jesus� lineage in two variant forms becomes a meaningless exercise.� As it became clear that attempts to connect Jesus to David through Joseph were futile, efforts were made to make the connection through Mary by claiming one or the other genealogy was really hers.� It is to no avail.� This too has failed.� What most Christians do now is live in a theological state of denial maintaining that there are no real problems only unbelievers quibbling over minor points.� Alas!� What else can Christian believers do, but hide their heads in a theological sand box and blame quibblers?� �
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Gerald Sigal
The author of the Gospel of Matthew sought to portray alleged events in the life of Jesus as fulfillments of biblical passages.� Ample evidence has shown that there is no validity to his claims. Luke�s author merely states that a virginal conception took place.� Both present a story their readers can relate to from the familiar Hellenistic worldview:� a god impregnates a virgin thereby sending his hybrid son into the world to do a certain task.� Matthew and Luke are not the originators of the core belief that a virginal conception took place.� According to the Gospels, Mary conceived as a divinely impregnated virgin betrothed to a Davidic descendant named Joseph.� If there was no biological relationship between Joseph and the child Mary bore, the story presented is not pertinent to the claim that Jesus is the Davidic Messiah on the basis of Joseph�s lineage.� That Matthew and Luke solely through Joseph trace Jesus� lineage in two variant forms becomes a meaningless exercise.� As it became clear that attempts to connect Jesus to David through Joseph were futile, efforts were made to make the connection through Mary by claiming one or the other genealogy was really hers.� It is to no avail.� This too has failed.� What most Christians do now is live in a theological state of denial maintaining that there are no real problems only unbelievers quibbling over minor points.� Alas!� What else can Christian believers do, but hide their heads in a theological sand box and blame quibblers?� �
FORMAT: E-Book
By Rowland Stenrud
It was the atheist, Jean Paul Sartre, who once said that, "Hell is other people." Rowland Stenrud's Yeshua, the Crucified Serpent is about how mankind's savior, Jesus of Nazareth, has saved men and women from this hell by making it possible, and indeed inevitable, for human beings to love one another and their Creator-Father, Yahweh God. This book is about the concept and practice of human and divine love. The words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, the Bible as a whole, and the reader's life experience will help in defining this. The author reviews what he knows about the concept and its related precepts and brings them to bear in this book. God himself is love, which should tell us how mysterious a thing love is. To acquire this ability to love, one must suffer in union with the suffering Christ. Salvation, pure and simple, is God delivering each one from the inability to love other human beings and the Creator Himself. The obstacle to this perfect love is the serpent of human wisdom and pride that existed even in Jesus. In his loving obedience to the Father, Jesus nailed this serpent to the cross. Yeshua, the Crucified Serpent attempts to show that the question of evil and suffering in the world is answered by Yahweh's eventual success in saving all of mankind. The majority of Christians believe in a number of key doctrines that the biblical authors do not unequivocally teach. A few verses may support these unbiblical doctrines but a greater number of verses, whose meaning is clearer, contradict the standard interpretation of these few verses. Other doctrines that Christians mistakenly believe in find support in this or that section of the Bible but are denied by the general thrust of the Bible as a whole. These unbiblical doctrines followed by the correct biblical teaching are: 1. Sometime in the distant past a large number of God's angels rebelled against Him becoming what are called devils or demons whose leader is known as Satan or Lucifer. The Bible teaches that the only agent of evil in the universe is man's heart. 2. Adam and Eve possessed the perfection of Jesus Christ before they sinned. If they had not sinned they would not have needed to be healed of any weakness. The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve could not have had eternal life even before they sinned without the work of Jesus of Nazareth. 3. Faith is an act of the free will of man. The Bible teaches that faith does involve man putting his trust in God's promises and revelation, but it is primarily a power given to man by God in order to enable him to see spiritual truth the natural man cannot see. Without this gift of the Holy Spirit, no human being can know God and be saved. 4. Ultimately speaking, we are saved by our faith. On the contrary, it is through Jesus's faith in and love for the Father that is the instrument of our salvation. 5. Jesus saved us by paying the penalty due our sins and therefore saving us from the just wrath of God. This is false. No one had to pay any penalty for God to forgive the sins of the human race. God relates to sinners on the basis of mercy and mercy is not mercy if the penalty for sin is paid. By going to the cross, Jesus healed our brokenness which forgiveness alone could not accomplish. 6. Satan and the sins of men are ultimately responsible for human suffering. False. God is ultimately responsible for human suffering as it is a necessary part of God's work of saving human beings. God Himself shares in all of our suffering: physical, emotional and spiritual even though He does not have a body or nervous system. 7. Salvation is about our eternal destiny. This is not correct. Salvation is about being saved from the idolatries, addictions, corruption, hatreds, evil deeds that afflict the unsaved on this side of the grave as well as being saved from separation from God in the hereafter. 8. Human beings are saved only on this side of the grave. If one dies unsaved, one remains unsaved throughout all eternity. False. The Bible teaches that God's victory over death will be total. All will enjoy eternal life. None will be consigned to an eternal death in hell or by way of annihilation. Salvation is a work of God's creative power and is not dependent on the weak will of man. 9. Jesus is the Son of God and therefore must be God, the Second Person of the Trinity. False again. Jesus is fully imbued by God's Spirit and is therefore God's special son. This special relationship does not make Jesus more than he is: a human being. The Father alone is God and is the God Jesus prayed to and trusted in. 10. The Kingdom of God is only a future kingdom. False. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom when he came the first time. It exists in the heart of every obedient Christian and is found in close Christian communities. We await the coming of Jesus, King of the Jews, to rule the whole world. This Kingdom Age will eventually morph into the Eternal Age in which God Himself dwells with mankind and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Rowland Stenrud
It was the atheist, Jean Paul Sartre, who once said that, "Hell is other people." Rowland Stenrud's Yeshua, the Crucified Serpent is about how mankind's savior, Jesus of Nazareth, has saved men and women from this hell by making it possible, and indeed inevitable, for human beings to love one another and their Creator-Father, Yahweh God. This book is about the concept and practice of human and divine love. The words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, the Bible as a whole, and the reader's life experience will help in defining this. The author reviews what he knows about the concept and its related precepts and brings them to bear in this book. God himself is love, which should tell us how mysterious a thing love is. To acquire this ability to love, one must suffer in union with the suffering Christ. Salvation, pure and simple, is God delivering each one from the inability to love other human beings and the Creator Himself. The obstacle to this perfect love is the serpent of human wisdom and pride that existed even in Jesus. In his loving obedience to the Father, Jesus nailed this serpent to the cross. Yeshua, the Crucified Serpent attempts to show that the question of evil and suffering in the world is answered by Yahweh's eventual success in saving all of mankind. The majority of Christians believe in a number of key doctrines that the biblical authors do not unequivocally teach. A few verses may support these unbiblical doctrines but a greater number of verses, whose meaning is clearer, contradict the standard interpretation of these few verses. Other doctrines that Christians mistakenly believe in find support in this or that section of the Bible but are denied by the general thrust of the Bible as a whole. These unbiblical doctrines followed by the correct biblical teaching are: 1. Sometime in the distant past a large number of God's angels rebelled against Him becoming what are called devils or demons whose leader is known as Satan or Lucifer. The Bible teaches that the only agent of evil in the universe is man's heart. 2. Adam and Eve possessed the perfection of Jesus Christ before they sinned. If they had not sinned they would not have needed to be healed of any weakness. The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve could not have had eternal life even before they sinned without the work of Jesus of Nazareth. 3. Faith is an act of the free will of man. The Bible teaches that faith does involve man putting his trust in God's promises and revelation, but it is primarily a power given to man by God in order to enable him to see spiritual truth the natural man cannot see. Without this gift of the Holy Spirit, no human being can know God and be saved. 4. Ultimately speaking, we are saved by our faith. On the contrary, it is through Jesus's faith in and love for the Father that is the instrument of our salvation. 5. Jesus saved us by paying the penalty due our sins and therefore saving us from the just wrath of God. This is false. No one had to pay any penalty for God to forgive the sins of the human race. God relates to sinners on the basis of mercy and mercy is not mercy if the penalty for sin is paid. By going to the cross, Jesus healed our brokenness which forgiveness alone could not accomplish. 6. Satan and the sins of men are ultimately responsible for human suffering. False. God is ultimately responsible for human suffering as it is a necessary part of God's work of saving human beings. God Himself shares in all of our suffering: physical, emotional and spiritual even though He does not have a body or nervous system. 7. Salvation is about our eternal destiny. This is not correct. Salvation is about being saved from the idolatries, addictions, corruption, hatreds, evil deeds that afflict the unsaved on this side of the grave as well as being saved from separation from God in the hereafter. 8. Human beings are saved only on this side of the grave. If one dies unsaved, one remains unsaved throughout all eternity. False. The Bible teaches that God's victory over death will be total. All will enjoy eternal life. None will be consigned to an eternal death in hell or by way of annihilation. Salvation is a work of God's creative power and is not dependent on the weak will of man. 9. Jesus is the Son of God and therefore must be God, the Second Person of the Trinity. False again. Jesus is fully imbued by God's Spirit and is therefore God's special son. This special relationship does not make Jesus more than he is: a human being. The Father alone is God and is the God Jesus prayed to and trusted in. 10. The Kingdom of God is only a future kingdom. False. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom when he came the first time. It exists in the heart of every obedient Christian and is found in close Christian communities. We await the coming of Jesus, King of the Jews, to rule the whole world. This Kingdom Age will eventually morph into the Eternal Age in which God Himself dwells with mankind and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Raymond Archie Davenport
The book was named Holy War because that is what’s going on in our society and this is the struggle humanity is facing to survive. Humanity is in danger and I would like to go into deeper detail on how and why I have come to the conclusion that mankind threatened. This book or series will expose the danger, lies and deceit that kept me and still a lot of other people in a trance for so long. This book will explain the real definition of Holy War, why the world as we know it is called and considered The Matrix and how that translates to The System. And this new truth that I have discovered, I would like to share with the rest of any and everyone who is like me tired of living in fear and the nonsense and find some peace in knowing the truth.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Raymond Archie Davenport
The book was named Holy War because that is what’s going on in our society and this is the struggle humanity is facing to survive. Humanity is in danger and I would like to go into deeper detail on how and why I have come to the conclusion that mankind threatened. This book or series will expose the danger, lies and deceit that kept me and still a lot of other people in a trance for so long. This book will explain the real definition of Holy War, why the world as we know it is called and considered The Matrix and how that translates to The System. And this new truth that I have discovered, I would like to share with the rest of any and everyone who is like me tired of living in fear and the nonsense and find some peace in knowing the truth.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Raymond Archie Davenport
The book was named Holy War because that is what’s going on in our society and this is the struggle humanity is facing to survive. Humanity is in danger and I would like to go into deeper detail on how and why I have come to the conclusion that mankind threatened. This book or series will expose the danger, lies and deceit that kept me and still a lot of other people in a trance for so long. This book will explain the real definition of Holy War, why the world as we know it is called and considered The Matrix and how that translates to The System. And this new truth that I have discovered, I would like to share with the rest of any and everyone who is like me tired of living in fear and the nonsense and find some peace in knowing the truth.
FORMAT: E-Book
By James T. West
Theology From Within is an exercise in dealing with God. Many religions preach their gospel and tell you how to live and who to hate. West has tried to explore God�s real message. He concentrates on the Abrahamic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaisim. He finds lots of evidence to support love and peace between them. He questions why the hate and discord. You will find a template for your own introspection and maybe, just maybe come away with a new view on life.
FORMAT: E-Book
By James T. West
Theology From Within is an exercise in dealing with God. Many religions preach their gospel and tell you how to live and who to hate. West has tried to explore God�s real message. He concentrates on the Abrahamic religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaisim. He finds lots of evidence to support love and peace between them. He questions why the hate and discord. You will find a template for your own introspection and maybe, just maybe come away with a new view on life.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Anthony of the Desert
West of Jesus is a condensed journey through Church history that establishes the Orthodox Church as the Body of Christ, as the Church founded by the Lord Jesus in the first century. Protestantism�s schism ended in the abandonment of Holy Tradition. This resulted in the relegation of sacraments to mere symbols, a misunderstanding of the process of salvation, and other misunderstandings of Scripture.
FORMAT: E-Book
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