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Lesson 11: Creed

Lesson 11: Creed

We often forget creeds are ways to read the Bible. When the early Church disagreed on which parts were important and how to handle contradictions, one thing they did was to develop creeds. We sometimes see creeds as dividing people by laying rigid lines between who belongs and who doesn’t. Surely, they were used that […]

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Lesson 21: Conclusion

Lesson 21: Conclusion

Bob suggested another challenge to Christian Ethics might be that people who certainty. I got that all the time during my ministry. Many said they missed the old days when you were told what was right and what was wrong. “At least, you knew what you were supposed to believe in those days,” they said. […]

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Lesson 35: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Creed

Lesson 35: How Do We Determine God’s Word – Creed

With all the focus on the Bible (canon) we often pass over how the creeds go even further in determining what is and what is not the Word of God. In some ways the canon is like the Constitution and the creeds like the Bill of Rights. The early Church kept adding phrases to the […]

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Lesson 32: How Do We Determine God’s Word?

Lesson 32: How Do We Determine God’s Word?

Throughout our history the Church has determined what it accepts as the Word of God by balancing many elements of tradition: charisma, canon, creed, clergy, ceremony, custom, and community. She is constantly correcting the problems that develop when one or more of these gets out of balance. For instance, the Reformation attacked the Roman Church’s […]

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Lesson 28: How Does God Operate Through Words?  Part 2

Lesson 28: How Does God Operate Through Words? Part 2

Last week Bob commented, “How do we separate these false prophets from those who truly proclaim the word of God? I think to do so we have to have a conception, an overall picture, of what Christianity truly is… So from the Bible, other religious writings, sermons, prayer, discussions, etc. each of us must decide […]

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