When The Literal Is Not To Be Taken Literally (the error of always taking literal biblical statements in a universal or absolute sense) by James. B. Mozley (1813-1878) Excerpted from the preface of his book The Primitive Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration (1856). The question of baptismal regeneration belongs to the general question of literal interpretation, … Read more

A Catechism on the Apostasy of the Church in America by Stuart DiNenno (For the purposes of this document, the churches being referred to are the so-called Bible-Believing, Conservative, Evangelical churches, which include the churches that identify themselves as Reformed, and these are collectively referred to herein as “the institutional church.” All other religious groups … Read more

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indiansby Fanny Kelly This book, published in 1871, not only tells a thrilling story of an American white woman’s five month captivity in 1864 and her ultimate rescue from the Sioux Indians, and is a very well written account of it, but in addition, it is valuable both … Read more

Whitcomb: The Assyrian Captivity Did Not Result in the Ten Northern Tribes Being “Lost” “The common assumption that the ten northern tribes were completely and forever “lost” through this Assyrian captivity is quite erroneous. Even during the days of Jeroboam I (931-910) individual Jews from those ten tribes had fled to the south because of … Read more

Dabney: When Women Forsake Motherhood,The Last Remains of Social Order Will Perish “When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subordination of children in the mother’s example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged … Read more

Marschalko: National Socialism TriedTo Do What the Churches Failed To Do “National Socialism undertook to fulfill those tasks that ought to have been performed by Christianity. No doubt it would have been much better had the Christian Churches in the turbulent hours of 1919 declared war on Bolshevistic atheism, on the immorality infesting European societies, … Read more

Calvin: Sodomites Are Like the SwineWhich Roll Themselves in Stinking Mud “Sodomites, not content with the common manner of committing fornication, polluted themselves in a way the most filthy and detestable … for when like beasts they were carried away to those things which gratified the senses of the body, they observed no moderation, but … Read more

Luther and Calvin Against Contraception(Birth Control) and the Anti-Child Mindset Martin Luther on Genesis 38:9-10: “Onan must have been a malicious and incorrigible scoundrel. This is a most disgraceful sin. It is far more atrocious than incest and adultery. We call it unchastity, yes, a Sodomitic sin. For Onan goes in to her; that is, … Read more

Lloyd-Jones on the Non-ConvictingPreaching in Modern-Day Churches “The main danger confronting the pulpit in this matter is to assume that all who claim to be Christians, and who think they are Christians, and who are members of the Church, are therefore of necessity Christians. … This is dangerous and wrong for this reason, that if … Read more

Titus One Condemns the Cretian Jews by Stuart DiNenno How many people realize that in the passage quoted below Paul the apostle was not only condemning the Cretians, but particularly condemning the Cretian Jews? “For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no … Read more