“The Experts Speak”—John Gordon Melton, Ph.D.
…a gripe for some reason, or maybe there are two sides to every story? Like in a dissolution you hear the husband’s side of the dissolution, and you can’t see…
…a gripe for some reason, or maybe there are two sides to every story? Like in a dissolution you hear the husband’s side of the dissolution, and you can’t see…
…Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559 (Dallas, TX: Kevin Reed, Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1995) available at: www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm; John Wesley, “Revelation 17,” John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes on…
…Bible (New York: Loizeaux Brothers, 1915), 38-39. Gill, John, Exposition of the Entire Bible,originally published in 1748, available online at: http://www.ewordtoday.com/comments/revelation/gill/revelation2.htm. Kelly, William, Lectures Introductory to the Study of The…
…co-mingling or confusion.”53 Commenting on this matter, Augustus H. Strong remarks, “The Scripture representations of this intercommunion prevent us from conceiving of the distinctions called Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…
…felt that way. And I concluded chance variation. Questions fifteen, thirteen, and twelve are related, you see. MR. MORGAN: In the course of that, did you come across a comment…
…Father with His angels” (16:27). Again, in Matthew 26:64 He says, “You will see the Son of Man…coming on the clouds of heaven.” This means that when He comes again…
…these booklets—the Divine Trinity, the Person of Christ, God’s complete salvation, and the standing of the local churches—are timeless and have stood unrefuted since their initial publication. Ignoring those earlier…
…just the coming of Jesus Himself to the heart. A. B. Simpson, When the Comforter Comes, 2nd day (Harrisburg, PA: Christian Publishers, c1911) James Denney — The Lord, of course,…
…the mid-1970s by misrepresentations of our teaching and false allegations concerning our practice, the local churches have been unwavering in their commitment to dialogue with fellow believers. However, it was…
…documents at http://web.archive.org/web/20080703223706/http://www.localchurch-vs-harvesthouse.com/ [Note: This site has been discontinued. The same information is available on this site at: http://www.contendingforthefaith.org/local-church-et-al-vs-harvest-house-et-a/]. A complete history and our overall perspective on the case can…
…16W. E. Vine, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (McLean, VA: MacDonald Publishing Company,) p 777. 17In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/degraded. 18Witness Lee, Practice, op cit. All of these…
…Believing comes about by listening to the Word. Thus Romans 10:17 says, “So faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” Undoubtedly, Noah heard the Word…
…Churches Voices of Confirmation contains the testimonies of leading evangelicals who, through direct study and contact, have come to appreciate the local churches and the ministry of Watchman Nee and…
…keeping with their practice of not performing primary research, Geisler and Rhodes completely neglect Witness Lee’s extensive and balanced commentary on the creeds in The Revelation and Vision of God,…
…in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Here we have present the three of the Godhead: Jesus who is speaking, the Father to whom…
…it means you never saw the same members. You could tell it wasn’t like a group coming there almost like a military academy, where every Saturday they all come. There…
…is incumbent upon us to give public testimony so that the fair-minded, intellectually honest Christian reader may come to an unbiased decision. In this reply we are concerned, of course,…
…to file a responsive pleading to the plaintiffs’ First Amended and First Supplemental Complaint. Although the trial was uncontested, the Court feels that the plaintiffs have presented competent and reliable…
…resolution to a conflict that was brought on by Harvest House and the authors’ false statements about Local Church, LSM and the local churches in ECNR. The Issue with ECNR…
…the Spirit…is not to be conceived as forming a compensation or substitute for the absent Christ; it is…Christ Himself…present. “I will come to you” and “when the Comforter is come”…