Christ Alone Saves
The atonement is our rescue. Christ alone performed it and He has proclaimed that He alone has accomplished it: Isaiah 63:3: “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with...
View ArticleBoise Conference Audio/Transcripts
The audio recordings of the Boise Conference are now available on the Doctrine of Christ website. Transcripts will be available there soon. Anyone who would like to listen to the proceedings can go to...
View ArticleAll or Nothing, 7-Conclusion
The return of Zion will require sacrifice. If mankind understood the intelligence that God will return to the earth they would be eagerly asking how to help. Zion will not be a place for proud men to...
View ArticleWhat Manner of Being, 2
Christ “lost His body” as a result of the post-Nicaea church philosophers who twisted the scriptures to fit their incorporeal idol. That was neither part of the New Testament teachings nor how Christ...
View ArticleEternal Life: Knowing God
As a prior post mentions, Christ explained “eternal life” as knowing Him: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3.)...
View ArticleEarly Christian Meetings
Justin Martyr lived from 110-165 a.d. and wrote in the “sub-apostolic” age. His writings give a glimpse into how Christianity functioned in its earliest days. In his First Apology, he provides a...
View ArticleChristian Talks in 2017
This year I will be speaking to Christians about the Christian Reformation. I will give three lectures in three different venues over the next year. The talks will be recorded and available online for...
View ArticleOpposing Christian Sects
Today, the best estimate is that there are over 40,000 different “Christian” denominations or sects. No one knows for sure because there is no organized data-base that identifies them all. Many are as...
View ArticleChristian Rejection
I received an email rejecting a request for a speaking venue. The rejection included the writer’s assessment that I was “not a Christian” because of her narrow, Evangelical interpretation of the word....
View ArticleBaptist or Beloved?
The debate over who was “speaking” the testimony of Jesus Christ in the beginning of the Gospel of John has been one of the longest-standing questions in Christianity. Heracleon addressed this at about...
View ArticleWhy not the cross?
I was asked about the cross as a religious symbol and why I thought it inappropriate. Here’s my response: When Christ described what He accomplished for us in His Atonement, He referred exclusively...
View Article3 Nephi 16: 7
3 Nephi 16: 7: “Behold, because of their belief in me, saith the Father, and because of the unbelief of you, O house of Israel, in the latter day shall the truth come unto the Gentiles, that the...
View Article1 Nephi 13: 40-41
1 Nephi 13: 40-41: “And the angel spake unto me, saying: These last records, which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall establish the truth of the first, which are of the twelve apostles of the...
View ArticleDiscussion of the Gentiles and the Remnant
We’re still in a discussion which began June 7th to try and make sense of the present and future of Zion. We have seen how priestly authority is more complex than a list of names on a page showing some...
View Article2 Nephi 31: 15
2 Nephi 31: 15: “And I heard a voice from the Father, saying: Yea, the words of my Beloved are true and faithful. He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.” The dialogue continues. It is...
View Article3 Nephi 20: 24
3 Nephi 20: 24: “Verily I say unto you, yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have testified of me.” The Lord chose and established Israel. He would...
View Article3 Nephi 11: 37-38
3 Nephi 11: 37-38: “And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things. And again I say unto you, ye must...
View Article3 Nephi 11: 40
3 Nephi 11: 40: “And whoso shall declare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil, and is not built upon my rock; but he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, and...
View Article3 Nephi 12: 11-12
3 Nephi 12: 11-12: “And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad,...
View Article3 Nephi 12: 25-26
3 Nephi 12: 25-26: “Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time he shall get thee, and thou shalt be cast into prison. Verily, verily, I say unto thee,...
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