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19 results for “Discernment”
Clear searchTal Brooke · Christian investigation · 1979
…an revelation and asks what these experiences actually prove. It is useful apologetic and discernment reading for a subject on which personal testimony is often allowed to outrun careful biblical judgment. The book was written during the first great wave of modern interest in nea…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…is real, and that God has sometimes given visions. Yet the same Bible repeatedly commands discernment. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." —1 John 4:1 Paul makes the test startlingly strict: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, pr…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…e making himself less able, not more able, to discern what is happening. The surrender of discernment is not spiritual maturity. When consciousness becomes contagious Not every altered state is deliberately pursued as a religious experience. In Strasbourg during the summer of 151…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
Paul's twofold seal in 2 Timothy 2 joins the Lord's certain knowledge of His people to their new direction: everyone who names Christ must depart from iniquity.
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
A biblical framework for political judgement which places loyalty to Christ above party allegiance, tests propaganda and political package deals, and refuses to give any leader a moral free pass.
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
A clear introduction to the manuscript evidence, textual variants, and the claim that the Bible was corrupted beyond recovery.
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, AD 70, and Paul’s revealed mystery examined in context.
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
Four major objections to pretribulationism examined through the man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day.
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
The rise of supersessionist interpretation traced through early Christian history, from the increasingly Gentile Church to Justin, Origen, Chrysostom, and Augustine.
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
Literary inimitability, scientific claims, numerical patterns, preservation, prophecy, and transformation tested as evidence for the Qur'an's divine origin.
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
God's unchanging character tested against the claim that Israel's promises may be reassigned while their original wording remains unfulfilled.
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
The clay birds, Seven Sleepers, Dhul-Qarnayn, and Mary's palm tree examined within the Jewish and Christian narrative world of late antiquity.
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
Punitive, economic, and Christ-centred forms of supersessionism defined fairly before their shared conclusion is tested against Romans 9–11.
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…form, this Christianity does not submit private experience to the apostolic word and the discernment of a known congregation. It moves from one source of affirmation to another. Its teachers may command immense loyalty while remaining inaccessible and unaccountable. It can speak…
Read article →Tertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
…th the New Prophecy, his growing severity, and some extreme practical conclusions require discernment; even his strongest arguments must be tested by Scripture. His references to the catholic Church belong to the language and disputes of the early Church and do not establish his…
View recommendation →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…nly a courtroom sentence. In Scripture, judgement can include governance, administration, discernment, vindication, and the establishment of justice. Israel's judges did more than decide lawsuits. God raised them to deliver and govern His people. Moses heard disputes and made God…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…iever cannot accurately describe Christian doctrine. Paul is addressing the reception and discernment of God’s wisdom, centred on the crucified Lord. The defect is deeper than vocabulary; improved explanation alone cannot supply what the Spirit gives. Verse 8 adds another dimensi…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…puted and spurious works. That is evidence of an open historical process of reception and discernment—not an imperial selection committee. In AD 367, forty-two years after Nicaea, Athanasius's Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter supplied the earliest surviving list which names precisely t…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…rship with other believers, and remember the Lord’s faithfulness. We should also exercise discernment about the voices we continually entertain. We can examine difficult questions honestly while recognising that sustained mockery and calculated intimidation are not spiritual nour…
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