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What is Christian Faith?
The Nature of Faith: Trust in Relationships
In general,
faith can be understood as the acceptance of something as true based on the trustworthiness of the one revealing it. Any kind of deep friendship requires a trust between friends. Otherwise, the relationship will remain superficial, without any deep intimacy and communication of what is most important to both. In true friendship, each person speaks from the heart, revealing what is of deep significance. To accept as true what a frien
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Nov 5th 2024
Should We Expect a “Rapture” at Any Moment?
If the news we watch every day, and the social media we follow is true, the end times must be just around the corner, right?What does Scripture say?Faced with such a dire time of tribulation, some Christians have wondered whether they will have to live through it. The historic answer, for both Catholics and Protestants, is that we will. Jesus warned us we would have to face persecution (John 15:20). However, in the nineteenth century,dispensationalists began teaching that Christians will no
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Apr 30th 2024
A Five-Part Test for Your Eucharistic Beliefs
How can you tell if you have the right understanding—the biblical interpretation, Jesus’ interpretation—of the Eucharist?I’d suggest five things to look for: your beliefs should be strange,sacrificial,serious,sacramental, and shocking. First, as we’ve already seen, the proper Christian understanding of the Eucharist must be strange, and hard to accept. That’s how it was initially received, and Jesus did nothing to dispel this impression. Why, he was trying to present an easy teaching and was jus
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Jul 27th 2023