2009 March

Salvation is Free – Is that true?

Mar 16

I am sure you have heard this cry before from many Christians, that to enter the Kingdom of God, his salvation is for free, meaning there is no work that can be done to obtain it because it is a free gift from God.

How can I determine if that claim is true? After all, there are so many Christian denominations, over 38,000 of them across the world and all of them have different claims about salvation. So how can I test this claim? Well, other Christians say that by comparing it to the Bible, a person can “try the spirit” of something and determine if it is biblical. In all fairness then, I will do the same to determine if salvation is truly a free gift.

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Ignorance and Fear is their Gospel

Mar 15

Commentary, Experiences

Not long ago, I was in conversation with a fellow who quit the Seventh Day Adventist church because he was against it’s membership in the World Counsel of churches (WCC). He claimed that he believes in Jesus Christ, yet he quit his chosen church which preached salvation by the Bible. This saying that he quit what he believed was his chosen church and his means of salvation because of his personal disagreement with his church.

Our conversation began about the false traditions of other Christians where he spoke of his short findings about the WCC, but when he asked me if I belonged to a church and I told him, his tune quickly changed, hypocrisy and ignorance began to rear it’s ugly head.

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“Mormons Made Simple” – Instructional WebSite

Mar 2

General, Media

There is a new website that just opened up. It is also a “help” site of sorts for people who want to inquire about this Church of Christ and have a hard time reading scripture to understand it.

This website provides simple explanations in the format of animated videos. I viewed this site and I am impressed with the quality of the information and media. The combination of the visual and verbal provides the viewer a simple guide to our practices, beliefs and doctrines.

At this time the website owners upload their videos to YouTube and use that feed access for their website.

The website owners are in the process of constructing more instructional videos. Below is an example of one of their videos entitled, “The Book of Mormon”.

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