IO 86: Your “Spiritual-but-not-Religious” Neighbor
When I came to the States in 1964, the great…
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IO 84: Only Two Religions? That Can’t Be True!
In Romans 1:25, Paul sums up in 25 Greek words the bedrock nature of spiritual conflict, be it in the Garden, in his own time, or, by implication, in ours. In this verse he lays out an irreducible age-old conflict between two opposing world views: the worship and service of creation, or, the worship and service of the Creator. These two options sum up the whole of reality.
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IO 83: Witch Way?
On KBRT, a Los Angeles area Christian radio station, listeners may be caught unawares by very un-Christian teaching being broadcast on weekends. Dr. Jones takes a look at the spiritual roots of some of these broadcasts and their hosts, revealing the One-ism hidden beneath the surface.
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IO 82: Something-ism
Many "Millennial Christians," taught to embrace multicultural diversity, believe that being a follower of Jesus Christ is "not about defending some statement from a church creed or theology; it is about testifying to our relationship with Christ through a life of sacrificial love for all people." Faith in experience and social action becomes the "new" Christianity. But the New Testament is full of creeds, statements of truth based on which Christians are called to belief and action. What are Christians to trust, and which belief is a One-ist lie instead of steeped in the truth of the Two-ist Gospel?
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IO 81: Cheating Disorder
The human race shares the divine essence expressed in the founding myths. Since joining evil and good brought reality into existence, human manipulation of good and evil will produce the final earthly utopia. Alas, this relativizing of good and evil turns the real chaos of an objectively troubled conscience into a virtual state of One-ist "guiltless bliss." However, creation is the result of God speaking forth His own good will, unforced by any external power, with things carefully distinguished, each after its kind, and then calling the results of His work "good." Evil has no part in His creating activity.
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IO 80: Out of Left Field, a Perfect Storm
Left field is now center-stage. Leading Republicans recently ensured that gay marriage became state law in New York. The sexually abnormal is the new normal, and our children’s future defies description. A worldview tsunami, made of the wildest waves of human fantasy, is bearing down on Western culture, which, shorn of its biblical moorings, will be carried helpless into a nightmare destruction of biblical values.
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