The Church of God International was the result of a massive split in the Worldwide Church of God, after Mike Williams teachings on the Gospel of Grace and Peace, led to divisions in that church.
Why did I copy someone else’s article? Because truth is truth, wherever you find it.
In today’s world, many do not recognize the plain prophetic statements foretelling the coming of Jesus
In Christianity we were taught that our will affected out eternal destiny, but that God’s will, (and our purity of heart) saw to it that we got the right parking space, were killed or not killed by a tornado, and generally determined the course of events in our life. In the Gospel, we coined a phrase for this and called it “Parking Space Spirituality”.
The Christian religion teaches
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day,
I’d rather that you walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better teacher and more willing than the ear,
And counsel is confusing but example’s always clear.
The best of all the teachers are the ones who live the creed.
To see good put in action is what everybody needs.
I soon can learn to do it if you let me see it
Today a friend mistook “Gay conversion Therapy” for what Christians call “conversion”. Following is part of the conversation.
She wrote:-
OK so many things I don’t know. So I read about conversion therapy. I understand both sides of the fence. From your standpoint since Christ saved us all…sinful behavior does not exist. And yes we all sin. And yes we all a little
There are several levels on which this may be challenged; that is to say, the claim that the early apostles actually believed that their writings, in any way, rose to the same level of the Old Testament Scriptures.
(a) The earliest church fathers and in particular, the first acknowledged church historisan, Eusebius, holds this epistle, 2 peter, to be a forgery.
(b) When paul asked Timothy
Since the inception of Christianity, every half millennium, we have seen a reformation.
About 500 years after the death of the Apostles, we saw the completion of the evolution of the Church from a charismatic, vibrant, alive, Greek influenced organism, to an institutionalized, dead, Latin thinking organization.
500 years later we saw the Great Schism where the eastern and western wings of Institutionalized