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What are the teachings of the historic faith?
Explanations of and apologetics for the doctrines and practices. Who are the Anabaptists?
Do their teachings align with the historic faith? Are Catholic and Protestant doctrines true?
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- The Schleitheim Confession
by Lynn Martin
This is the full text of the Schleitheim Confession, the earliest Anabaptist confession of faith. This material is from Anabaptists.org and was originally printed by Rod and Staff Publishers, Inc., Crockett, KY (Sixth Printing, 1985). The Schleitheim Confession was adopted by …
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- Divine Command Theory | What if Jesus didn’t really mean that?
by Lynn Martin
When reading Jesus’ commands can we ever say, “We know Jesus didn’t mean that, because that’s so obviously not true”? In this article, I discuss whether we can be justified in interpreting Jesus’ commands according to our moral intuitions. This …
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- Early Church Fathers on War, Violence, and Pacifism
by Lynn Martin
This article is the second of a series on the doctrine of nonresistance, which is based on Jesus’ command to do no violence. More specifically, nonresistance is the view that even when striving for justice, Christians, unlike earthly governments, must …
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- Biblical Nonresistance
by Lynn Martin
This article is the second of a series on the doctrine of nonresistance, which is based on Jesus’ command to do no violence. More specifically, nonresistance is the view that even when striving for justice, Christians, unlike earthly governments, must …
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- Can Christians Do Violence?
by Lynn Martin
In the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7), Jesus introduced a surprising teaching, one that is so unlike our natural human impulses that Christians have mostly ceased to follow it. Though Jesus taught against violence, and though the pre-Constantinian church …
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- Did Saints Like John Chrysostom Venerate Icons? How Did It Arise?
by Lynn Martin
This article is the fifth (and last) in a series in which I evaluate the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox practice of iconodulia—veneration of images. In previous articles, I looked at the evidence predating 313, when Constantine began to favor …
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