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David B. Brown

The Seven Myths of Denominationalism

David B. Brown

Brown's critique of denominationalism in Christianity, identifying and refuting seven common myths used to justify the division of Christ's church into competing denominations.

77 Chapters

Table of Contents

1 000 - Preface 2 01 - Myth 1: The Bible is Too Complicated to Understand 3 01.01 - Why Believe or Teach This? 4 01.02 - What the Bible Says 5 01.03 - Supporting Evidence 6 01.04 - Bible Complexity 7 01.05 - You Can Prove Anything with the Bible 8 01.06 - Why People Do Not Understand 9 01.07 - Conclusion 10 02 - Myth 2: The Old Testament is Just as Binding as the New Testament 11 02.01 - Why is This Important 12 02.02 - Are We Under the New Testament 13 02.03 - The Truthfulness and Value of the Old Testament 14 02.04 - Importance Revisited 15 03 - Myth 3: We Are Saved by Faith Only 16 03.01 - Why is This Important? 17 03.02 - Definitions 18 03.03 - Why Not Faith Only? 19 03.04 - What the Bible Teaches About Faith Only 20 03.05 - What it Means to be Saved by Faith 21 03.06 - What Then Are We Saved By? 22 03.06.01 - Entering Into a Covenant Relationship with God 23 03.06.02 - Keeping Ourselves Saved 24 04 - Myth 4: Baptism is of Secondary Importance 25 04.01 - Why all the Fuss? - Definitions 26 04.02 - What the Bible Says Aboiut Baptism 27 04.02.01 - The Gospels 28 04.02.02 - The Book of Acts 29 04.02.03 - The Letters to the Churches 30 04.02.04 - Other Baptisms 31 04.02.04.01 - Baptism of the Holy Spirit 32 04.02.04.02 - Baptism of Fire 33 04.02.04.03 - Baptism for the Dead 34 04.02.04.04 - The Baptism of John 35 04.02.04.05 - Other Mentions of Baptism 36 04.03 - Commmon Objections Against Baptism 37 04.03.01 - Salvation is Not by Works 38 04.03.02 - The Thief on the Cross 39 04.03.03 - Paul Not Sent to Baptize 40 04.03.04 - Conversions Which Do Not Mention Baptism 41 04.03.05 - If a Person Got Kiled on the Way to Baptism... 42 04.04 - Is This Important? 43 05 - Myth 5: Love is All You Need 44 05.01 - Do We Love? 45 05.02 - Love Defined 46 05.02.01 - Greek Definitions 47 05.02.02 - Bibleical Definitions 48 05.03 - Old Testament Love Extended 49 05.04 - Making Love a Reality 50 05.05 - Can We be Saved by Love Only? 51 06 - Myth 6: The Rapture, The RAPTURE, THE RAPTURE 52 06.01 - A Most Popular Doctrine 53 06.02 - A Proposed Scenario 54 06.03 - Scriptural View of Judgment 55 06.03.01 - The Gospels 56 06.03.02 - The Book of Acts 57 06.03.03 - The Letters to the Churches 58 06.03.04 - The Book of Revelation 59 06.03.05 - A Review of Our Scenario 60 06.04 - More on the Chaining of Satan 61 06.05 - On the Kingdom 62 06.06 - On the Rapture 63 06.07 - Is This Important? 64 07 - Myth 7: Original Sin 65 07.01 - Definition of Terms 66 07.02 - Original Sinlessness 67 07.03 - When we Fall 68 07.04 - Misapplies Scriptures 69 07.05 - Consequences of Original Sin Doctrine 70 08 - Chapter 8: Where Does This Leave Us? 71 08.01 - So What? 72 08.02 - The Alternatives 73 08.02.01 - Redirection and Evolution 74 08.02.02 - Restoration 75 08.03 - The Nature of Local Churches 76 08.04 - Reversing the Trend 77 08.05 - Some Concluding Thoughts

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