Church History

A Great Betrayal

June 1, 2000

This is being written in Slovakia where we have just come by all-day train from the Czech Republic. Ruth and I are in Europe on a speaking tour that first took us through Germany, Austria and Switzerland by car. We began in Augsburg, Germany, at a fellowship of dear believers...Read more

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Questions and Responses

Question: Why do you Protestants fail to see that without the tradition...of an authoritative Church, you wouldn't know what was Scripture?

Question: How does [the Strange Fire Conference speakers making a big deal of Calvin's interpretation] fit with the fact that many of the Reformers continued to hold some Roman Catholic beliefs and practices?

Question: You say, “...Calvinists teach that God is the author of sin....” Dave, this is a falsehood....That you are in error in this is so glaringly obvious I keep wondering why I have to keep pointing these things out to you....

Question: How can you believe both in God’s foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice? If God knows ahead of time that Mr. A is going to do something, how can Mr. A decide for himself? Isn’t foreknowledge the same as predestination?

Question: Please comment on this new bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. It claims the Bible was collated by Constantine and a vote of the Council of Nicea....

Question: The Bible often speaks against following tradition more than the Word of God.

Question: You have referred to the Albigenses as true Christians, yet every encyclopedia I’ve looked into says they...believed in a good god and an evil god, that they were involved in ritual suicide and immorality. How could you make such a blunder?

Question: Dave, I am distressed by some of the ideas expressed [in The Berean Call]. The Lord Jesus and his followers were and remained observant Jews….

Question: Would you be willing to address [Martin Luther's errors] in the Q&A section of The Berean Call?

Question: [Y]ou overlooked what I think is CRI’s most legitimate objection to your thesis that the whore in Revelation 17 is the world church headquartered at the Vatican. [T]he Vatican sits on one hill, not seven….

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