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POPSThe Mahdi Belinda Mohamed offers insight on the religion of Islam, Islamic Eschatology, and The Mahdi
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POPSARE YOU A TRUTH TELLER OR A LIAR? Also, if you do know that there is life after death, and that it is the truth, and are keeping that knowledge from the rest of us who may wish to repent, you are committing a grievous wrong against the ignorant among us. If you do not know for certain that there is life after death and state unequivocally that there is, you are a liar. So which is it? Are you a Truth Teller or a Liar?
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POPSThe Nature of Humanity Links to these articles at source. * Total Depravity, by John Piper * Human Depravity, by R.C. Sproul * Total Depravity, by Loraine Boettner * Total Depravity: Extent vs Degree, by Tim Challies * Total Depravity (Monergism) * The Natural Man, scripture compiled by eschatology.com * What do the Protestant Reformers Mean by "Total Depravity"? * The Problem of Total Depravity, by James Patrick Holding * Total Depravity (Tulipedia) * Need of Salvation: Total Depravity and Man's Inability, by Brian Schwertley - One of the more comprehensive treatments of the subject * The Fall of Man, by J. Gresham Machen * Is Mankind Lost in Sin?, by J. Gresham Machen * How Much Depravity and How Much It Applies, by David Wayne
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POPSWhy fundamentalists unquestioningly support Israel It is a result of a new form of premillenialism (dispensationalism), new to the Church in the 1830s and popularized recently by the "Left Behind" series. It is not historically Christian, and is not held by most Christian denominations today, but has been widely promoted by the Scofield Reference Bible, radio preacher John MacArthur, and the Ryrie Study Bible.
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POPSI'm not sayin', but I'm just sayin'...The Number is 666 The Number of the Beast is a concept from the Book of Revelation of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The Number is 666 in modern biblical text, although 616 and 665 appear instead in at least one ancient source. This topic is a source of contention for many church groups and theologians. Some scholars contend that the number is a code for the Roman Emperor Nero. Mark of commerce Futurist Christian eschatology typically holds that the Mark of the Beast is one way in which the Antichrist will exercise power over the Earth during the period of Tribulation, because of the prophetic statement in Revelation 13:16-17 that "the Beast" (θηριον) will require all people to receive the mark (χάραγμα "branded mark or character) in their right hands or foreheads in order to buy or sell, making survival for those on the run much more difficult. http://www.answers.com/Apocalyptic%20Number
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POPSEnd Times A-Coming? A recurring argument lodged by theists against atheists is their inabilitiy to understand how non-believers can exist in a world of no god-given purpose. Theists seem incapable of comprehending the simple (to me at least) idea that each of us fashions our own purpose and meaning in life. This article touches on that aspect of thought.
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POPSWill the 12th Imam cause war with Iran To add to a clip posted earlier about Ahmadinejad and his Islamic eschatology. From the article: "if, as Mr Ahmadinejad claimed in New York, Iran has no interest in developing nuclear weapons, there is every indication that Teheran is preparing itself for war, not least because the clash with Western civilisation that the Iranian president so obviously desires will hasten, or so he believes, the arrival of the 12th Imam."