Have Sign Miracles Ceased?
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
Money for Forgiveness
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 : By Ken Rutherford
A number of questions regarding the current teaching was submitted last week. I’d like to address one here:
Does the Roman Catholic church today believe in taking money to in exchange for forgiveness of sins?
In my understanding, this is not an overt doctrine of the RCC. However, given their system of salvation (process justification—as Dan has pointed out), almsgiving is seen as one of many “bricks” in one’s road toward justification. Whereas we believe that the Bible teaches that one’s forgiveness of sins is a one-time event (forensic justification), we would hold that giving money to the church or to the poor would be as a RESPONSE to forgiveness. Not as a means of forgiveness.
To make it more simple, the …
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What Defines You?
Friday, August 15th, 2008 : By Hugh Williams
I found myself another Batman-inspired conversation yesterday… it was about this quote from Batman Begins:
It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.
Agree or disagree? How does this question relate to the Gospel?
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