By Robert F. Turner Only the “straw man” argues all questions make a creed. The issue is: despite undoubted good intentions by the writer, does “the 28,” with accompanying letter, have the elements of a creed. I did not “request” this exchange, as reported in Ron’s letter to Gospel Truths, April issue. His offer to make …
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By Ron Halbrook Every passage instructing elders to guard the church authorizes them to ask questions by generic authority, just as the elders here did (Acts 20:28-32; 1 Pet. 5:1-4). Their questions are no more creedalistic than literature nor sectarian than classes. Every passage instructing the church to proclaim the gospel authorizes literature and classes by …
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By Steven Deaton Today it seems like there are a million “causes.” Save the whales, save the earth, “Just Say No,” conservativism, and so on. While none of these in and of itself is wrong, it can endanger our soul’s eternal life. How? When we put more energy, time, thought, and devotion into them, than into …
By Larry Ray Halley What does it mean to preach Moses? “For Moses .. . hath … them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day” (Acts 15:21). To read Moses’ writings is to “preach” Moses. The preaching of Moses is not limited to preaching about Moses’ life, his work, his person, his …
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