By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. Frequently, we hear from brethren who seem bent on freeing us from the shackles of “legalism” or “phariseeism,” as they perceive it. To these people, viewing the New Testament as a rigid standard for moral and religious conduct makes one a “legalist” – the chief of sinners, a Pharisee of Pharisees, …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Clarify “One Church”
By Don Partain As a sophomore at Florida College, in 1970, 1 attended Edgar Srygley’s class on Logic. One section of the class dealt with the error in reasoning known as “the fallacy of four terms.” In this fallacy, instead of having a three-term syllogism, the reasoner actually employs four terms because one of the terms …
Is the Church of Christ a Denomination?
By Carrol R. Sutton There are hundreds of denominations (religious bodies authorized by man’s authority and governed by human wisdom) in the United States of America alone. They differ in name, doctrine and practice and yet all of them claim to be of God and that God is with them. Are these denominations authorized by the …
Openings In Eastern Europe
By Steve Wallace Recent events in Eastern Europe have stirred the hearts of freedom loving people all over the world. These happenings, epitomized by the breaching of the Berlin Wall, have come with such suddenness that we in the West have been stunned at the reports of the rapid decline of the Communist regimes and encouraged …