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Paul Pavao
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Author of books on early Christianity, apostolic faith, and church history. Official site:
https://christian-history.org
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Recent Posts
- Righteousness, Self-Control, and Judgment (Acts 24:25)
- A Fair Summary of Paul’s Gospel? Salvation, Perseverance, and Judgment in His Own Words
- Jesus Is Building His Church on Peter’s Confession; Are We?
- King David’s Secret Sauce: Works Are the Prize, Not the Price
- Do You Like the Bible? Or Only an Imaginary One?
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- Past Tense Salvation by Faith and Future Tense Judgment by Works
- The Primacy of the Roman Church
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- Rebooting Redemption: An Ancient Perspective on Jesus' Atonement
- Can We Be Good Enough to Go to Heaven?
- "Faith Apart from Works" and "Not by Faith Alone"
- The Gospel: Comment Response
- The Elementary (First) Teachings of Christ: Hebrews 6:1-2
- King David's Secret Sauce: Works Are the Prize, Not the Price
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Christian Foundation
Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal: The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. -2 Tim. 2:19 Today I had a friend tell me that … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Modern Doctrines
Tagged apostles creed, doctrines, foundation, historic Christian faith, Nicene Creed, Unity
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Honest and Historic Christianity
I’ve spent the last couple days working on a potential ebook that I want to call Honest, Historic Christianity. If you’re a reader of this blog, I wouldn’t mind you helping me with it. It is not linked to on … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, History, Modern Doctrines
Tagged Christianity, historic Christian faith, honesty
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Our Very Real God
The quotes used below are from the Jan. 15 posting at a blog at http://www.beautyfromtheheart.org/index.html. Great blog, and I’ll add it to my blogroll as soon as I get a chance. Back in 1982, at the tender age of 21, I had … Continue reading
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The Presence of God
The comments are turned back on. I found a much better spam filter that I was able to add as a plugin. They had great instructions, so it wasn’t too hard to figure out how to do it. I have … Continue reading
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God’s Not a Legalist
The high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless, Asa’s heart was perfect all his days. ~2 Chronicles 15:17 God’s not a legalist. Other kings were commended for getting rid of their high places, but Asa didn’t do … Continue reading
Righteousness Is Its Own Reward
We will not require that you punish our accusers; they being sufficiently punished by their present wickedness and ignorance of what is right. ~Justin Martyr, c. A.D. 150 Yesterday my son, upon hearing that a fellow student had ignored a … Continue reading
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Tagged historic Christian faith, justin martyr, righteousness
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Try Jesus
Note: comments are enabled again; I found a better filter. Today we passed a church marquis that read, “For a happier year, try Jesus in 2009.” I understand the mentality that wants to ask people to try Jesus, but something … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Doctrines
Tagged churches, denominations, evangelicals, Jesus, marquis, modern Christianity, signs
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Prayer Answers #7 – Last Post of 2008
I visited a local church tonight with three other adults and about 10 of our teenagers. We were only there for about an hour and a half, which was completely filled by the testimony portion of their New Year’s Eve … Continue reading