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    Cultic Claims to Secret Knowledge

    How do you answer someone belonging to some secretive religion where everything is secret knowledge? How do you pivot from a conversation about what is basically biblically based fan-fiction to actually discuss the gospel? I have a specific sect in mind but it is very small and geographically...
    • Sam Jer
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    • alawite bahai cult cults druze gnosticism jehova's witnesses mormonism scientilogy secret knowledge sects seventh day adventist
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Cults & World Religions
  2. the_earnest_inquirer

    Jesus' (Apparent) Dimunition of the Family

    Hi there, I am unsettled by the "Big-Eva" disposition toward the biological family (BF), particularly in its demotion of it in comparison to more explicit "Kingdom-oriented" ambitions, like over-seas missions and local philanthropic ministries of all sorts. Part of the reason I moved toward the...
  3. nuclear_calvinist

    Ken Wilson on Augustine introducing Manichaean Theology to the Church

    Has anyone been interested in the Provisionist/Traditionalist use of Ken Wilson's work? His work is becoming very popular and spreading to other groups, such as Mormons, who quote his work as conclusive proof that Augustine infected Christianity with Manichaean theology. That's why I feel it's...
    • nuclear_calvinist
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    • augustine determinism gnosticism ken wilson original sin
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Baptism
  4. Padre

    Carl Jung and Myers Briggs personality tests

    Hello friends, I first heard about Carl Jung in my Doctrine and Christian History classes in which he was introduced as a neo-gnostic occultist. Following my own research I discovered that he was born into a Christian home, but rejected the faith and started to worship Abraxas (gnostic god)...
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    Pelagianism: A Conversation I Had With Two Roman Catholic Friends

    So, recently I had a conversation with two Roman Catholic friends, a man and a woman. Both are well educated in the Catholic tradition. Both are conservative, pro-life, and completely committed to following the teaching of the Roman magisterium. Particularly, I overheard four comments that...
  6. Timmay

    Church History Irenaeus: A Pivotal Theologian In A Pivotal Era

    (Note: Article originally submitted for Christianity and Culture in 2nd and 3rd Centuries, a Master's level course at Regent University) Introduction American President Theodore Roosevelt once said that “it is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...
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