This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number2 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Revisionist portraits of Jesus promulgated today by...
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Did Jesus Claim to Be God?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “I am the First and the Last. I am the Living...
Is Colossians 2:8 a Warning against Philosophy?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 3 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org I teach at a Christian university that...
The Essential Doctrines of The Christian Faith (Part Two): A Logical Approach
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 6 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Part two in this series takes a logical approach to answering the question of what makes a...
Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 5 (2004). For further information on the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS The teachings of Finis Jennings Dake, author of The Dake Annotated...
Bible Versions (Part Two)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). SYNOPSIS Christians who are serious about the Bible tend to gravitate toward a single version, which results in the tendency to identify versions that differ from their...
Bible Versions (Part One)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). SYNOPSIS What makes a Bible version “good” or “bad” and how can we tell the difference? The rapid increase in the number of major English Bible versions over the past two...
Does Acts 2:38 Teach Baptismal Remission?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 2 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. One controversial issue concerning salvation has been whether...
High-Tech Apocalypse? Millennium Computer Bug Provokes Varied Responses
This article first appeared in News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 1 (1999). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Hal Lindsay couldn’t have planned it better. After three decades of largely...
Loving the Trinity
This article first appeared in the Volume 21 / Number 4 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Trinity should be the object of our love, for the doctrine expresses the very...
The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity
I. THERE IS ONE GOD One God: explicit statements OT: Deut. 4:35, 39: 32:39; 2 Sam. 22:32; Isa. 37:20; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9 NT: John 5:44; Rom. 3:30; 16:27; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19; Jude 25 None like God (in His...
Taming Bible “Discrepancies”
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 2 (2001). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. With the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible Web site on the Internet and...
Are We Really Willing?
When professor Tatiana came to the Christian Research Institute on a January afternoon, she had one thing in mind: getting help for her people. Tatiana is a language instructor at Moscow State University, and a fairly new Christian. But even as God's love and peace...
The Masculine Journey of Promise Keepers
This article News Watch column first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 2 (Fall 1995). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. HERE’S A THREE-QUESTION QUIZ: Promise Keepers represents an effort of... ❑...
The Counterfeit Revival: Visionary Hoaxes and Revisionary History (Part Two)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 1 (September-October 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The deceptions of the Counterfeit Revival include both visionary hoaxes...
The Counterfeit Revival: Rodney Howard-Browne and the “Toronto Blessing” (Part 1)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 4 (July-August 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Summary Christianity is undergoing a paradigm shift of major proportions — a shift from...
Welcome, Holy Spirit
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Book review of Welcome, Holy Spirit Benny Hinn (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995) Just a few...
Oneness Pentecostalism: Heresy, Not Hairsplitting: Far from a “Moot Point,” the Nature of the Trinity is Essential Christian Doctrine
This article first appeared in CRI’s newsletter Christian Research REPORT, volume 11, number 1 (January 1998). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. The June 1997 issue of Charisma features an article by executive editor J. Lee...
New Age Messiah Identified
Troy Lawrence, author of New Age Messiah Identified (Huntington House), is exposed as a fraud. According to an article by Eric Pement in Cornerstone magazine (vol. 20, no. 95), “Troy Lawrence” — an alias for Darrick Evenson — “has...
Mormon Filmmakers Seek Box-Office Blessings
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 2 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The advertisement for The Other Side of Heaven appeared promising. “From...
Popular Mormon Apologetics — Staking Claims on Christian Ground
This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 4 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. A Summary Critique of Biblical Mormonism: Responding to Evangelical Criticism of LDS Theology...
Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine (Part 2)
This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 4 (2001). In our previous installment on how Latter-day Saints (LDS) ascertain doctrine, we examined the supremacy of the teachings of the living prophets over...
Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine (Part 1)
This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 3 (2001). A significant difficulty when witnessing to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is to determine what that individual...
Of Cities and Swords: The Impossible Task of Mormon Apologetics
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1 (Summer 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Mormon organization FARMS is producing the most widely read and seemingly...
Lost Books and Latter-Day Revelation: A Response to Mormon Views of the New Testament Canon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Mormon church offers four reasons for rejecting the historic Christian position...
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins Of Power
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 4 (Spring 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. Review of The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power D. Michael Quinn (Signature Books, 1994) This...
The Basics Of Mormonism
The saga of Mormonism began in 1820, when a young man named Joseph Smith, Jr., purportedly experienced a spectacular vision. Two celestial personages appeared to him, claiming all existing churches were wrong, all their creeds were an abomination, and all their...
Was the Fall Necessary? Second Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in the early nineteenth...
DNA Science Challenges LDS History
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 1 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. DNA evidence is offering a serious challenge to the Mormon...
What Does Jerusalem Have to Do with Provo?
This Viewpoint article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click...
Mormonism and the Question of Truth
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 1 (Summer 1992). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. SUMMARY The Mormon concept of, and approach to, the subject of truth is radically different...
Philosophical Problems with the Mormon Concept of God
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). Most Christians who critique the Mormon view of God do so from a strictly biblical perspective. Christian apologists have correctly pointed out that Mormon...
The Mormon Doctrine of Salvation for the Dead: An Examination of Its Claimed Biblical Basis
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 2 (November-December 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. SUMMARY The Mormon church cites 1 Peter 3:18-20, 4:6, and 1 Corinthians 15:29 as...
How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation
“Both Mormons and Evangelicals trust that they will be brought into a right relationship with God by Jesus Christ, who is both the Son of God and God the Son. Both believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ, justification by faith in Christ, and...
Marching Toward Respectability: Mormon Wagon Train Reenactment Shows the Triumph of Image Over Substance
This article first appeared in the Christian Research REPORT, issue 1 (September / October 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. After 97 days of walking, riding, pushing handcarts and pulling wagons over more than 1,100...
My Family Came Across the Plains with Brigham Young
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Newsletter, volume 1, issue 2. For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. I would like to thank CRI for all their wonderful work in bringing truth into my everyday walk with...
The Book of Mormon Vs The Bible
“. . .If we compare the historical, prophetical, and doctrinal parts of the Book of Mormon with the great truths of science and nature, we find no contradictions–no absurdities–nothing unreasonable.” Talmage’s Articles of Faith, page 505...
The Masonic Lodge and the Christian Conscience
This feature article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 3 (Winter 1994). For further information about the Christian Research Journal please click here. Summary The Masonic Lodge in America is a highly influential organization...
PDA’s and Apologetics
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). During the cross-examination period of our debate on purgatory, Father Peter Stravinskas, noted theologian and author of The Catholic...
T.D. Jakes Responds to the Journal
This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 3 (2001). Although he has not directly corresponded with the Journal, T. D. Jakes has publicly responded to last issue’s cover article, “The Man, His...
Faith of Our Fathers (Part 1): Were the Early Christians Jehovah’s Witnesses?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). SUMMARY The Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) claims to be the sole religious group faithful to the teachings of Christ and the apostles today. The...
To Every Muslim an Answer (Islam Series Part 2)
This article first appeared in Forward volume 8, number 4 (1986). The full PDF can be viewed by clicking here. Islam and Christianity are the two largest and most missionary-minded religions in the world. Their beliefs are very similar in many areas. They are...
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (1996). Summary Critique of C. Dennis McKinsey The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy Prometheus Books, 1995 The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy is hardly a piece of scholarship....
Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International
More than two years ago the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) was informed by Christian Research Institute that there were Mormons in membership in some of their local chapters, specifically Salt Lake City. The FGBMFI president did not...
Gnostic Christianity Revisited: Seek Your Inner Light
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). A Review of Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas New York: Vintage Books, 2003 Rubbish from the second century that is still rubbish1 is an apt...
Family Entertainment Network Moves to Dispel Controversy over New Testament Videos
The producers of a popular series of New Testament videos for children are hoping that speculation and controversy over their product’s Mormon connections will soon be put to rest. The set of twelve videos, called “Animated Stories from the...
Evangelizing the Cults and Renewing the Mind
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 01 (1998). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When Cultists Ask: A Popular Handbook on Cultic Misinterpretations (Baker Book House, 1997) by...
The Cult of Compromise Revisited
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 02 (1998). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The warnings keep coming. With increasing frequency over the past few years, I’ve been...