What Does The Bible Say?

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we finish our discussion of the Presbyterian Church and begin discussing the Episcopalian Church. Glenn begins by noting that the Presbyterian Church requires its members to make a confession of the Apostles Creed. He notes that there is no such Creed specified in the word of God. The required confession in the New Testament is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God a...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode on the Presbyterian Church by noting that there are actually nine Presbyterian denominations in the United States. We note three of the largest ones. We talk about the origins of the Presbyterian Church and note that it grew out of the teachings of John Calvin, even though he never founded a distinct denomination. Nevertheless, many of his teachings have been...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of the Lutheran Church denomination in this episode. We review their belief and teaching that justification is by faith alone. We note what James says in chapter two where he says that faith without works is dead, along with the full context. We also note several other passages that show this Lutheran belief to be in error. We next look at the Lutheran t...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our study of denominations by next looking at what the Bible says about the Lutheran Church. Of course, the truth is that the Lutheran Church is not mentioned in the Bible. The Lutheran Church was one of the first of the many Protestant churches formed out of the protests against Catholicism during the Reformation Movement. It dates from All Saints Day, October 31, 151...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of the Roman Catholic Church's various doctrines that are not found in the New Testament. We begin by discussing Extreme Unction which is anointing a person who is about to die. We next discuss the use of instrumental music which was added in 666AD. We note 15 Catholic doctrines and when they were established. We close out this study by noting that...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of the Roman Catholic Church denomination by looking at it's primary beliefs and doctrines. We begin by noting that the Catholic Church believes and teaches that the Pope, or universal bishop,  is infallible and has authority over the entire church. We note that the New Testament doesn't say nor teach this. In the New Testament each local congr...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our study of denominations by looking at the Roman Catholic Church, it's origin, organization, authority and doctrine. We find it impossible to locate a specific date as the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church or a specific founder of it. We do know that the Roman Catholic Church is the result of a general departure from the divine pattern of organization, doct...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we  begin our study about denominations and what the Bible says about them. In past studies, we have talked about the Church Jesus built, the Church of Christ. We noted that Jesus only built one Church. We discussed local churches of Christ in the Bible and the fact that they followed the New Testament pattern established by the apostles and the importance of foll...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode by noting that Paul told the brethren in Galatia that we are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. This includes all faithful people, those in the first century, and even those who came before Christ. It is His shed blood that cleanses us from sin. This, of course ultimately included the Gentiles who were previously separated from God by the law of M...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode by noting that there are as many theories about what happens in the so called End Times as you could count. Most all of them are false doctrine or false teaching. We note what some of them consist of. We first note some facts about a kingdom and note that the Bible reveals that Jesus has a kingdom. Jesus Himself noted to Peter that He would build His church a...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of the gospel by looking at what Paul and Silas taught the jailor in Philippi. We see that he asked them what he must do to be saved and again the answer included baptism. We next talk about the 12 disciples Paul talked to in Ephesus. He found out from them that they had been baptized with John's baptism. Listen to the episode to find out why what P...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode by noting what Paul says in Romans 1, verse 16 about the gospel. We talk about what Jesus commanded His apostles to do concerning the gospel and where that was to begin. Paul explained to the Corinthians what the gospel was. We look at that explanation. Next we note what Peter said to those who were in Jerusalem on Pentecost in Acts 2. The Holy Spirit sent Ph...

Send us Fan Mail In the last episode we discussed two kinds of authority, specific and generic as illustrated in the Old Testament. Specific authority is when God specifies what must be done. We must obey exactly what He has specifically commanded. General authority allows us to choose the means to obey what is commanded. In this episode, we look at the consequences in several Old Testament exampl...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of authority by noting that Paul used a plea as a direct statement concerning what the Christians at the church in Corinth needed to do. In Acts 20 verse seven we find Paul preaching at the church in Troas on the first day of the week and we are told they had the Lord's Supper on that day. We talk about what this tells us about when to observe the L...

Send us Fan Mail We continue this episode on authority by again noting that the Lord authorizes something to be done in three ways. We note those three ways as expressed by Jesus. We talk about how the Lord delegated authority to His apostles and look at passages that teach that as well as passages showing the apostles using those three ways in correcting the false teaching about the circumcision...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode on authority by noting what Paul said about our bodies being a living sacrifice and the need for us to yield as servants to righteousness and not iniquity. Our discussion moves on to look at what Peter said about our growth and adding to our faith. We talk about the list of sins that Paul wrote to the Christians in Galatia about and the serious consequence re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we begin a discussion of authority according to what the Bible says. We note that Jesus was challenged by the religious leaders of the day concerning what authority He had to say what he did, and where He got that authority. We discuss this. We note that Jesus tells us there are two sources of authority, from heaven and of men. We talk about these. We find that Jes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we continue our discussion of miracles and whether or not they have ceased. We begin by looking at that Paul wrote to the church at Corinth about the spiritual gifts they had and how they were to use them. We find out that the gift of prophecy was more important than the gift of tongues. We note that Paul says the gift of tongues were a sign to unbelievers. Paul re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we continue our study of miracles by asking if they exist or happen today as they did in New Testament times? We note that just about all of Jesus testimony or preaching was verified by miracles. We talk about what Nicodemus said about that as well as other passages that John wrote. We mention that references to the miracles performed at that time can be found in s...

Send us Fan Mail In the last episode, we talked about when the apostles were baptized in the Holy Spirit on Pentecost in Acts chapter 2. We  then began discussing when Cornelius  and his family and friends were baptized in the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts chapter 10. We read the entire chapter, 48 verses, in sections with short comments regarding what was recorded. We noticed that in verses 1 t...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode by noting that on the day of Pentecost, according to Acts 1:1-4 that the Jewish apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit or baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in languages or tongues that they never learned. We discuss the fact that this occurred for a special reason which was to be able to speak in the foreign languages of the Jews that were there for Pe...

Send us Fan Mail We continue to lay the scriptural groundwork to learn if miracles exist today. We noted again that the Hebrew writer tells us that in the Old Testament, God spoke to the patriarchs through the prophets, but now speaks to us through Jesus. We noted in the last lesson that we don't receive God's Word in any other way today than by hearing, reading and studying the bible. W...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Arnie, Fred and Glenn talk about whether miracles exist today. Remember that as members of the Church of Christ, we believe, teach and trust the Bible as being the revealed Word of God as the scriptures teach us. We discuss two of these scriptures to begin this episode. We note that Paul told the Hebrew Christians how God communicated to those in the Old Testament...

Send us Fan Mail We begin this episode by noting that Calvinism conflicts with God's character by teaching that God decided who would be saved and who would be lost before He created anything. This unconditional election contradicts God's justice, His love, His impartiality, His goodness, and His mercy. God created mankind as free moral agents who can choose to obey Him or not. We move o...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our discussion of the Calvinist Doctrine identified with the acronym TULIP. In this episode, we talk about unconditional election which is the U in TULIP. This is believed, taught and followed by many in denominational churches Unconditional election claims that before creation God chose certain individuals to be saved and certain individuals to be lost in hell. We wil...