The rule of faith for Protestants is sola Scriptura. This belief holds that only Scripture is a final, infallible authority for the Christian: thus excluding the Church and Sacred Tradition as equally ...
The existing canons of the Council of Nicaea show that no Biblical canon was determined. While at least one Church Father, St. Jerome, noted that one book was determined to be Scripture at the council ...
When television documentaries ex­plore Christianity, they have little difficulty finding diverse manifestations of faith and practice from around the world. A global survey also reveals a surprising, ...
Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...
(The Conversation) — ‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon. (The Conversation) — Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter ...
One time in a Facebook theological group that I was involved with, a Protestant stated that “Jesus nowhere explicitly commanded us to use ashes” and “There’s no Lent in the Bible, either”. This person ...
Generative AI and the rise of “Bible GPTs” could radically shape our engagement with Scripture. The pace of adoption for artificial intelligence is unprecedented. By the end of January, ChatGPT—an AI ...
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