Truth

Error From Following Our Emotions

May 16, 2023

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions—especially selfish ones. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008, Russian novelist,...Read more

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Questions and Responses

Question: The Bible says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:13). Then why do I so often fail to do His will and to please Him? I more often please myself by doing my own will. Why?

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Question: A frequent reaction to your book The Seduction of Christianity is that it causes division within the Body. What is your response to this criticism?

Question: I was literally stunned by a passage a friend read to me from a book by Karen Mains...what seemed to be her communication with a personal spirit guide. Am I reading too much into her writing?

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