Why are we Christians? We are Christians because of Christ. We have recognized in His human nature the perfect embodiment of God, which was expressed through His actions, reported by His closest friends while He was among us. In the maturity of His character there was manifested the dignity of human personhood, which has the potentiality in each of us. His character, expressed in His actions, also reveals who He is as a God. The highest revelation of God through the history of the communication between Him and us, was when He revealed Himself in the human flesh. It is the culmination of God's revelation, where He tries to tell us one important thing, namely about His exceeding love for the dignity of our human nature, created in His image.
The trustworthiness of the testimony of Christ's resurrection
The foundation of Christian faith lies in the historicity of the two most important events in the history of mankind: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Christian faith is based upon the historical claim that Jesus bodily resurrected from death after being dead for three days.
In this article, we will provide good reasons for the belief in the historic authenticity of Christ's resurrection.
In this section we are going to look at just some of the practices of the early church believers for approximately the first 250 years of the church. In 313, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan legalizing the practice of Christianity. We have many today that refer to the church fathers as being from this time forward but really the church fathers were the 11 Disciples and Paul, with many co-laborers, not for instance St. Augustine, St. Athanasius, or Gregory of Nazianzen, let alone theologians such as Luther or Calvin.
By the time of the Apostle John's death the world had been completely evangelized with the Church fully established upon the teachings and commandments of Christ and the Apostles. The practices of this original group lasted for several generations until the church began to blur the distinctions between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world under this new governmental favor.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God -- not by works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8, 9)
When the Bible says that we are not saved by works (Eph. 2:8-9), how shall we understand it? Does it follow that we can both continue in sin and be saved? Of course not, otherwise it would contradict with Paul's clear warnings, just to mention two passages.
This article is in two parts. The first part, Biblical reasons for the doctrine of hell as eternal torment, will examine all relevant biblical texts about hell and show that the Bible teaches that lost sinners, who died in their unrepentant sins, will be punished with everlasting torment. The second part, Apologetic defense of the doctrine of hell as eternal torment, is more philosophical in approach and endeavors to explain how eternal torment of lost souls is metaphysically possible in the universe of a benevolent God. (Christian apologetics deals with scientific and philosophical arguments for Christian beliefs).
Cessationism versus Continuationism regarding the charismatic gifts
In this article, we will examine the validity of the charismatic belief, whether the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit are still present in the Church of Christ. The charismatic belief affirms that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are still present, and have never ceased to be in operation from the birth of the Church on the day of the Pentecost, cf. Acts 2, till now. The gifts will continue to exist until Christ's return. The charismatic belief is referred as the continuationist view, or Continuationism. The opposite view is known as the cessationist view, or Cessationism. We will show that Continuationism is wrong by examining the important arguments that are present in the issue.
Written by Aleksandar Katanovic | 
