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The Scriptures Sparknotes

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Preface
This book is birthed, after a long gestation, out of deep concern for the Body of Christ and for the Gospel that was first delivered to the saints. This writer has always grappled with contemporary Christianity as evinced by major groups of Christian people. From the very early years of his life he has maintained a critical posture (not negative) of anything religious and even though his mental powers were penetrated and subdued and his heart received the doctrine of Oneness Apostolic-Pentecostalism, he still maintained a healthy skepticism of positional views taken by some organizations of his persuasion relative to some of the fundamental issues in the Scriptures. This book will evolve a redaction of some of the old major issues, …show more content…

One must balance his axiological leaning, his spiritual ideology, the intuitiveness of his mind, his academic curiosity, his life experiences, his culture, along with contemporary revisionist hypotheses. Rationalization requires revisiting all the old precepts and doctrines and use the tools of formal thought and logic to ascertain what God is saying to his people. Faith then becomes an intellectual issue that moves away from the realm of the supernatural to the natural, from that inner- transcendence to a sort of existentialistic posture. The concern here must involve the identification features of Pentecostalism evinced from Scriptural contexts and as direct postulates of the Holy Spirit. There must be some bedrocks, solid ground on which to base our faith and make our calling and election sure. Revisiting the old issues should be referential – strategic vantage points from which one can view the origination of some of the sliding back and the compromising that have shaped our current doctrines and practices. Modernism seeks however, to take us into the ecclesiastical and academic complexity of the issue hoping to obfuscate the true gospel first given to the saints. We must keep it simple and not delve into the rationality of modernism which would leave us on an existentialistic

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