April 12th, 2012
So far in this series on the Challenges to the Christian Foundations of Faith, we have been setting out the major beliefs handed down to us by our Creator, by Jesus Christ and the Church Fathers. We have talked about the foundational beliefs about the Holy Spirit, Jesus of Nazareth and of end time events.
In looking at the first challenge to Christian, we discussed Humanism as a religion in direct contract to the teachings of Jesus Christ. We included material from YouTube and from the original ‘Humanist Manifesto’. Read more... (618 words, 3 images, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)
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April 9th, 2012
Perhaps this would be a good point to stop and remind our readers what the basic beliefs of the Christian faith include. We have been given several versions of these statements: The Nicenen Creed and the Apostle’s Creed.
The following is a summary of these statements. As we go through them, see if you can sort out what your heart/spirit really understand and belief.
What we Believe:
We believe in one Omnipresent God, the Father, the almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all that is, of galaxies and realms of angelic beings, of the seen and unseen worlds. Read more... (520 words, 4 images, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)
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April 1st, 2012
In this post, we have present a brief review of the ‘Humanist Manifesto’ document in hopes that it will help the reader better understand this belief system, this ‘religion’.
THE TENETS OF HUMANISM
In 1933, and again forty years later in 1973, humanists set forth their credo in Humanist Manifesto I and Humanist Manifesto II. There is nothing left to the imagination when it comes to the tenets of Humanism. This system of thought has been so well defined and so oft’ discussed that it is an easy matter to understand its goals, aims, objectives, and teachings. Read more... (1030 words, 3 images, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)
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