Category: Book 1 Chapter 4

I urge you to read what I say with caution. Do not just casually assume that what I say, or what anybody else says, must be true because it’s in a book. Check it carefully for yourself in the Bible. Be like the people of Berea …

I have just used the word “religion”. It is a much misunderstood word.  Real Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is God’s one and only way of reaching out to lost people who need His mercy and forgiveness as a free gift. “Religion” is the many different …

In the Western world therefore we see, by and large, a spineless, and biblically illiterate church.  It is too weak to be a witness to our world and too unimpressive to be able to teach or preach effectively.  One could call it the ‘apparent church’.  It …

The Protestant denominations arose in the “Reformation” of the sixteenth century. They are called that because they protested against many of the false teachings and practices of Roman Catholicism.  The nonconformists went even further in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were in some ways even more …

That vagueness was not unique to me. It is the position of most Catholics. But, I must emphasise, it is by no means confined only to the Catholic church. It is widespread in the modern Western church, throughout the denominations. Much of the Church of …

The Roman Catholic Church is not the “original” or “true” church. It does not date back to the first century, or to the apostle Peter, as it claims to do. In fact it really began to develop properly from AD 312, when the Roman Emperor, Constantine alleged that he had …

I have been a Christian since 1981.  I can point to the very date and time when I became a Christian and had my sins forgiven.   It was 2.30pm in the afternoon on the 8 June 1981 when I made a clear and firm decision …

Our confusion comes from focusing, instead, on what church leaders or denominations say.  When what they say differs from what the Bible says, too many of us opt to go along with what our leaders say and ignore the Bible.  My strong advice is always …

3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,  4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to …