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11 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 →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 →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…
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