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As time allows we will be updating this
web page to include information about Old Testament history.
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If we wish to understand
why Christianity is the way it is today and if we wish to avoid making
the mistakes others have made in their Christian life, it behooves us to
study Church history. The people listed here had a major impact on
the church, some for its good and some for its bad. We will stay away
from modern day preachers and teachers, leaving that for another study.
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Throughout the history of the Christian Church
there have been good guys and bad guys. The good guys being
those who made true disciples of Christ and who taught clearly and
accurately and the bad guys being those who misrepresented
teachings in the Bible and who perverted the Gospel of salvation
by Grace alone. While none of the "good guys" was
perfect, they all made major contributions towards leading
believers away from error and towards the truth of Sacred
Scripture.
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SOME
OF THE BAD GUYS
click on a name to read their biography |
| ALL the popes and their priests - claim to
represent true Christianity while really representing a blend of
Christianity and many pagan religions |
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Pelagius (354-440? AD) - did not believe in
the doctrine of original sin |
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Jacobus Arminius (1516-1609) - unarguably
the father of the false "free will" gospel |
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Charles Finney
(1792-1875) - invented altar calls,
causing many Christians to think that it is up to the sinner to get
himself saved by walking down an aisle or reciting some sinner's prayer |
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Charles Taze Russell
(1852-1916) - started the
Jehovah's Witnesses |
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Joseph Smith
(1805-1844) &
Brigham Young
(1801-1877) - started
the Mormon church |
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William Miller
(1782–1849) -
started 7th Day Adventism |
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Ellen G White (1827-1915) -
prophetess of 7th Day Adventism |
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John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) - came up with the
current "Rapture of the Church" which is why he is
considered the father of modern
dispensationalism |
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John Wesley
(1703-1791) - founder of the
Methodist movement
and strong advocate of Arminian (free-will) theology |
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English Bible Versions
Timeline:
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Geneva Bible (1560)
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KJV (1611)
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Revised Version (1881)
Significant Confessions, Creeds
& Religious Documents:
A
Narrower Creed
The Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed
which are subscribed to by many churches and denominations are so broad
in scope that even apostate churches agree with those creeds. Here
is a creed that only the lover's of God's sovereignty can agree with:
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"We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ fully and finally
accomplished redemption for all of God's elect when He died on the cross of
Calvary. We believe that when He died as our Substitute under the wrath of God
that He fully and finally satisfied Divine justice by paying the sin debt and
thereby secured salvation for all for whom He died. We believe that Christ
through the Holy Spirit will also succeed in effectually calling and bringing
all that He died for with Him into everlasting Glory. We believe that any gospel
that robs our Lord of this, HIS glory in the finished, successful, accomplished
work of salvation, is another gospel.... which is no gospel at all. Now, there's
the real offense and power of the gospel. Do you believe that?"
-Greg Elmquist,
Apopka, FL |
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"Narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it."[Matthew 7:14] |
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