I thought that it would be a good idea to have a thread dedicated to posting thoughts/discussions on events or people from Church history or the Church fathers. The topic itself can be very edifying as it can involve things like sharing in the experiences and thoughts of the early Church, the...
Hello brothers and sisters.
My question is not on what the unpardonable sin is, at all.
My question is, who first coined the term(s), or who first used the term(s), “unforgivable sin” and “unpardonable sin”? These terms are nowhere in the Bible. I know the scriptures they represent, but who...
Hello brothers and sisters,
I have questions around supralapsarian and infralapsarian views.
1. Were these views initially brought up and discussed during the reformation?
2. Who are the earliest Christian’s to hold one or the other of these views?
3. Does the old church discuss any of this...
Hi everyone! First time posting here. I'm not sure what to start with about myself, so I guess I'll talk briefly about my story, as someone who was not raised in the church.
I first called on the the name of Christ in 2015 (at the age of 26) after a lifetime of being relatively indifferent to...
1 Timothy 2:11-12 has been variously understood. One view I recently heard is that it teaches women to be silent not only in church, as is the case in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, but also in secular matters. After making several contextual arguments for women not to teach with authority, this...
Why You Should Read the Puritans | The Road to Emmaus | Christian Blog
This article is arguing that the Puritans have been misrepresented in popular culture. It takes a look at some of lesser known Puritan pastors and argues that these men do not fit the common stereotype of the Puritans. It...
I was studying Waldensian history and came across some Youtube videos that have a lot on that. It is called the Lineage Series and it starts as far back as when Constantine took over Christianity in the Fourth Century. Starting Episode 6 is the Waldensians. You can just scroll through the...
Happy Easter! He is Risen! :blacksunrays:
If you've been following my other musings the past couple days, you probably know a little of what I'm going through... how I'm questioning my Protestant heritage, and struggling with how to read Church history and remain a Protestant. If you're new to...
So, here is my next question in the line of "questioning my Protestant heritage". Hopefully a slightly more focused question than before?
In my other thread, there has been a lot of talk about the Church Fathers, especially about accepting them as infallible authority ... Well I never said that...
Hi. I grew up in a small Southern Baptist church that my something-great-great-grandparents helped found. It's not really a great place for dynamic preaching or worship -- it's just my family and a few other families, sharing the love and Gospel of Christ. I love it for that, and in some way, it...
Since we have seen people asking about Wycliffe the "morning star of the reformation" -- who came long before Luther... and also don't know Jerome of Prague or Jan Hus etc..
Here we have a free online book on not merely the Reformation but also all 2000 years of church history in extremely...
I've been listening to Jacob Prasch and he has some very harsh words towards church history.
E.g.
What was going on?
How did this all happened?
Its quite disturbing, especially some of the methods used to torcher and kill heretics by the inquisitions.