The Bible teaches that Christians ought to grow in discernment, the ability to distinguish truth from error.
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Discernment is more than just a skill. Discernment is a gift from God before it is anything else. Yet there are clearly skills you put to use in using your gift, and you can become better at it through training and experience.
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The nature of postmodern epistemology is so contrary to the absolute and exclusive claims of Scripture that a theology which is faithful to Scripture can no more develop from postmodern epistemology than an apple tree can grow from an acorn. David Kowalkski examines the terminology used by proponents of the Emergent Church.
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A religious cult that claims to have been on earth since tens of thousands of years ago would like its members to live on air and light alone. Perhaps that is why they are not paying their bills.
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Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, described plural marriage as part of “the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on earth” and taught that a man needed at least three wives to attain the “fullness of exaltation” in the afterlife. While the Mormon church eventually rejected this doctrines, Mormon fundamentalists hold on to it. This documentary examines the legacy of Smith’s teachings on polygamy.
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Research resources on Islam, one of the most controversial and fastest-growing religions in the world.
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Basic beliefs of Islam.
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The creed of Islam
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Research resources on Islam
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A Fulton County, Florida grand jury has indicted the husband of national evangelist Juanita Bynum for what Bynum said was an attack on her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel.
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Megachurch pastors Randy and Paula White stood before their congregation Thursday night and made the announcement that many in their flock feared had been coming for months. They are divorcing.
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Juanita Bynum, a preacher whose fiery and frank sermons about women’s empowerment have won her a national following, told police that she intends to file charges against her estranged husband who allegedly attacked her in a parking lot early Wednesday.
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The majority of missionaries in the Mormon Church are young men between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one, who serve on a voluntary basis for about two years.
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Latter-Day Saints missionaries are expected to abide by a long list of rules during their two years in the field.
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About Our Research Resources | Color Key Articles God’s Army: Mormon Missionaries PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Aug. 3, 2001. The Dos and Don’ts of Mormon Missionary Life by Sharon Lindbloom Ten Lies I Told as a Mormon Missionary by Loren Franck As a full-time Mormon missionary from 1975 to 1977, I lied for […]
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Current news regarding Scientology, the Church of Scientology, and related entities and issues.
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What is Scientology? Apologetics Index provides a collection of research resources that discuss, explains and investigate Scientology from a variety of perspectives.
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The belief in so-called Territorial Spirits is a pagan concept that holds certain demonic spirits rule over specific geographic areas.
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Some Christians believe they can determine which demonic spirits hold sway over certain geographic areas.
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...Nobody joins a cult. You join a self-help group a religious movement a political organization.

They change so gradually, by the time you realize you're entrapped - and almost everybody does - you can't figure a safe way back out....
- Deborah Layton, Survivor of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple