A Family Circle Series: Grace in the Garden

By Leslie Diestelkamp When Adam and Eve walked innocently in the Garden of Eden they represented and demonstrated God’s first grace and the greatest of God’s temporal gifts to humanity. In creating them altogether suited to each other, and in establishing the family arrangement, God had elevated humanity to a much higher level than all the …

Modernism’s Assault on the History of Israel

By Phil Roberts For many centuries after the close of the New Testament canon, the Bible was the only really well-known account of the events of antiquity. Consequently, the Biblical version of ancient history was pretty much taken for granted. Only occasionally would a dissenting voice arise. But the social and cultural upheavals of the 15th …

Modernism’s Assault on Miracles

By Ron Halbrook For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty (2 Pet. 1:16). But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall …

Modernism and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (1)

By Daniel H. King The Nature of Contemporary Opinion In order to dramatize the nature of the question with which we will be wrestling in the present article, at least for the sake of those who are uninitiated with regard to contemporary New Testament theology, we would like to quote from three thinkers who have been …