by Francis Beckwith | May 23, 1996 | Culture and Society, May/June 1996, MCOI Journal, Reincarnation, Relativism, Tolerance
By Francis J. Beckwith (Originally printed in the May/June 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) In his important and influential work, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom observes that: “there is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost...
by Joy Veinot | May 23, 1996 | Evangelism, Free Grace, Grace, May/June 1996, MCOI Journal, Rewards, Salvation
(Originally printed in the May/June 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) In the our last issue , we made the case that salvation is a free gift, not of works. We discussed the cultic view that “faith plus works = salvation.” Under cultic belief systems, faith...
by Don Veinot | May 23, 1996 | Boston Church of Christ, Boston Church of Christ: Series, Cults and Religions, International Churches of Christ, May/June 1996, MCOI Journal, Salvation
(Originally printed in the May/June 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) THE BIRTH OF A NATION The year is 1773. The town is Boston. There is a great amount of unrest due to tensions with England. In the 1760’s, the English Parliament enacted the Sugar and Stamp...
