Philosophical

The dictionary defines ignorance as a lack of knowledge, education, or awareness. Ignorance is unsafe in spiritual as well as in other matters. Even in earthly governments, people’s ignorance of…

Docetism and Gnosticism are concepts that were introduced in the early church. These ideas did not have Biblical support, but were familiar to the beliefs and traditions at the time.…

God is always fair, and while it may come to question why He gave the land of the Canaanites to Israel, it is important to understand the full story. God…

Arius, a presbyter of the church in Alexandria, founded Arianism in the 4th century. The founder adopted Origen’s theory that stated that the Father alone is God in the highest…

The Black Hebrew Israelites are members of a religious movement that dates back to the slavery and Reconstruction. They consist of different sects such as: African Hebrew Israelites, Black Hebrews,…

Monophysitism, or Eutychianism, claimed that in the person of Jesus Christ there was only one, divine nature rather than two natures, divine and human, as declared at the Council of…

During the second and third centuries, there were controversies over the nature of Christ. So, the church settled these issues by stating that Jesus had both a divine and human…

Jesus said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your…

The Jews taught that the sufferings of this life were God’s punishment on sin. This was expressed from the disciples who asked Jesus about the blind man, “Rabbi, who sinned,…

Monarchianism advocated the unity of the Godhead. The word “monarch” means “sole ruler.” This philosophy arose as a reaction against the many gods of the Gnostics and the two gods…