My Papal Prediction. - Comments (5)

Category: Applied,Articles,Roman Catholicism
Author: John Malone
Date: 4th April, 2005 @ 06:20:58 PM

It seems like many pundits are trying to guess the next Pope. I’d like to achieve “pundit status” myself, so I think I’ll take a shot at it.
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Zane Hodges goes too far. - Comments (16)

Category: Articles,Doctrine,GES: Hodges, Wilkin, et.al.
Author: John Malone
Date: 24th March, 2005 @ 09:06:25 PM

In order to demonstrate that certain essential doctrines concerning the person of the Lord Jesus Christ are not necessary to bring one into saving faith, Zane Hodges proposes a theoretical circumstance that is preposterous on its face, and invalid in its details.
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GES Controversy in John’s Gospel - Comments (5)

Category: Articles,Doctrine,GES: Hodges, Wilkin, et.al.
Author: John Malone
Date: @ 07:19:53 PM

There shouldn’t be any controversy at all! Why and from where do such issues arise?

The Grace Evangelical Society (GES) has attracted the support of good churches and the men that lead them because it underscores and amplifies the good news of eternal life as “Grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.”

The phrase is a wonderful one – and accurate – but not inspired.

It turns out that there are those in important positions of leadership in the GES that are, in my view, toying with turning beefsteak faith in the Lord Jesus Christ into twinkie faith in a non-Divine, unrisen, non-incarnate “Christ” who guarantees eternal life to all who trust in Him.
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Grace Evangelistic Conference 2 - Comments (3)

Category: Articles,Doctrine,GES: Hodges, Wilkin, et.al.
Author: John Malone
Date: 17th March, 2005 @ 11:57:06 AM

Yesterday, the GES had an evening breakout session featuring a robust discussion on the essential content of the gospel. Most of the discussion was “proposition” oriented. By that I mean that it focused on the reception of the offer of the gospel and its attendant promise of eternal life, such as are found in {John 3:16,|Jo 3:16} {John 6:47|Jo 6:47}, and {John 4:14|Jo 4:14} in conjunction with {John 4:26|Jo 4:26}.
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Grace Evangelistic Conference 1 - Comments (0)

Category: Articles,Doctrine,GES: Hodges, Wilkin, et.al.
Author: John Malone
Date: 16th March, 2005 @ 10:33:19 AM

This week I am attending the Grace Evangelical Society Conference (GES) for the first time.

It’s an interesting conference in one way just for its existence. It is something of a commentary on the state of the Word of God as it is held today that a society and a conference is specially formed for people to reinforce that salvation comes “by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.”
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Three Resurrections - Comments (1)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 22nd March, 2004 @ 08:17:32 PM

There are three different phrases for “resurrection of the dead” used in the King James Bible, and a careful review of each of them will lead the serious Bible student to “appreciate things that differ”and yield helpful results in Bible understanding.
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Heads & Coverings: A Tradition, A Symbol - Comments (4)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 18th March, 2004 @ 09:25:06 PM

Of all the things to argue about in Christian practice, the head covering/uncovering is NOT one. A quite remarkable statement puts an end to the controversy men would inflame.
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