What Believers Don't Have to Believe, author Craig Payne uses evidence from the Creeds, Christian history, the scriptures, and philosophy to establish what one is required to believe to maintain Christian orthodoxy, and how much one is not required to believe. This book focuses on five areas of disagreement: creation, biblical inerrancy, human nature, Christian political involvement, and eschatology.
In many debates over ethical issues today, the argument swirls around a central question: "What exactly is a human?" Further, is there a difference between a human "being" and a human "person"? In this book, these and other contemporary questions are surveyed through the thought of medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas, in order to find some surprisingly relevant answers. Craig Payne is a professor of humanities at Indian Hills College, Iowa.
You can live so that heaven invades your life. You can live so that seeing angels and conversing with them is natural for you. You can speak to saints from heaven every day as you go for a walk or even when you are just spending time at home. You can regularly meet Jesus in visions. Going to heaven can be commonplace for you. This book contains the following chapters: Visions of Jesus Visions of God A Prophetic Atmosphere Visions of Angels Visions of Saints Accessing Heaven Portals in my House Abundant Money Supply Open Heaven in my House and Seven Keys to an Open Heaven. With his trademark candor and transparency, let Matthew Robert Payne take you on a brief journey of his life. These short chapters describe just some of his many encounters with Jesus, saints, and angels. Each chapter includes questions for you to consider at the end. By the time you finish reading, you will be yearning for similar adventures of your own. Matthew ends the book with a prayer of impartation to encourage you to walk under an open heaven as he does.
The burning question in the thoughts and on the lips of so many Christians is this: "How do I hear the voice of God?" As someone with decades of experience, Matthew has spoken to God for most of his life. In this book, he unpacks his years of knowledge and wisdom on this subject. God had been leading Matthew to write on this topic for years, yet he did not follow through with that directive until a stranger approached him and offered to pay for the production of the book full of questions about hearing from God. Matthew has now written out these questions along with the answers within these pages. With the help of Craig Beeson, a friend who has only recently begun to converse with God, Matthew produced a book to answer the twenty questions written by Lance and to ultimately help you, the reader, start your very own two-way conversations with God. Do you have blockages in your faith that prevent you from hearing God? Do you fear that Satan will speak to you and that you will be deceived if you try to speak to God? Do you want to know what sort of questions to ask God? Do you want to know how to approach him and what to say? These questions and others along with their answers will take you to a new depth in your relationship with God.
You can live so that heaven invades your life. You can live so that seeing angels and conversing with them is natural for you. You can speak to saints from heaven every day as you go for a walk or even when you are just spending time at home. You can regularly meet Jesus in visions. Going to heaven can be commonplace for you. This book contains the following chapters: Visions of Jesus Visions of God A Prophetic Atmosphere Visions of Angels Visions of Saints Accessing Heaven Portals in my House Abundant Money Supply Open Heaven in my House and Seven Keys to an Open Heaven. With his trademark candor and transparency, let Matthew Robert Payne take you on a brief journey of his life. These short chapters describe just some of his many encounters with Jesus, saints, and angels. Each chapter includes questions for you to consider at the end. By the time you finish reading, you will be yearning for similar adventures of your own. Matthew ends the book with a prayer of impartation to encourage you to walk under an open heaven as he does.
This work discusses Thomistic anthropology and natural law ethics, in relation to contemporary scientific knowledge. It presents the argument that human-ness and even personhood begins at conception. The ethical implications of this view are also considered.
The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture. In this introduction to biblical interpretation, Craig Carter evaluates the problems of post-Enlightenment hermeneutics and offers an alternative approach: exegesis in harmony with the Great Tradition. Carter argues for the validity of patristic christological exegesis, showing that we must recover the Nicene theological tradition as the context for contemporary exegesis, and seeks to root both the nature and interpretation of Scripture firmly in trinitarian orthodoxy.
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