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Entries Tagged ‘Contemporary Christian Myths’

Popular Myth# 3: People Contribute Something Towards Their Salvation

This has to be one of the saddest and deadliest myths to have been recieved by evangelicals. The nature of it is subtle and its consequencies are severe. Eternally severe. This myth has been allowd to emerge largely due to, 1)Ignorance or 2) rejection, of the reformation doctrine Justification by faith alone. Or more specifically [...]

Popular Myth # 2: People are not really ‘bad’

We live in the age of the victim. Everyone and their granny is a victim. Everyone has sociological and emotional war wounds. We are dysfunctional and we all have ‘our stories’. We also, we are told, live in the age of ‘fulfill your potential’. We have/or should have the right to fulfill our greatest potential. [...]

Popular Myth # 1: God exists for my fulfilment and happiness

This is both so wrong yet so popular that it is scary! So many believers think that this is true that to question it is to almost sound like a heretic! God, for these believers, is a means to an end. Their worship revolves around themselves, their prayer life revolves around themselves, they continually look [...]

Ten of the Most Popular Contemporary Christian Myths

As Christians we are called to walk in truth. Truth sets us free. We have an enemy who is known as ‘the Father of lies’. One of his key weapons is deception. Through deception he renders many of God’s people ineffective. As Christians we need to combat error with truth. Is our Christian life built [...]


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