WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, F to J

WHAT IS TRUTH, TOPICAL INDEX, F to J (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

Faith

Depending on God

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith, pt. 2

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith, pt. 3

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith, pt. 4

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith, pt. 5

Faith the Only Reliable Epistemology: It's Got to Be Faith, pt. 6

Is Being a Believer, Believing Scripture about Scripture?

Jesus Said, Have Faith in God

The Meaning of Fideism, the Preservation of Scripture, and King James Only

Not Believing God Is and Should Be A Problem in Denying Perfect Preservation of Scripture

The Relationship of Faith and Science or Faith and Thinking

False Teachers

Analysis: Online Video Plan of Salvation - Is It the Gospel?

Postscript to Analysis of Skelly Gospel Video

Bart D. Ehrman's Did Jesus Exist? Useful Quotes for Christians, part 1 of 4 (T)

Bill Nye's Disqualifying Ignorance or Lies about the Bible

A Bigger Tent than God: Douglas Wilson, "Doctrinal Works," and the Salvation of Roman Catholics

Bishop G. Handley Moule: Keswick Quietist Leader, part 1 of 2 (T)

Bishop G. Handley Moule: Keswick Quietist Leader, part 2 of 2 (T)

A Catholicization of Evangelical Christianity

Commentary on the Steven Anderson--James White Interview, part one

Commentary on the Steven Anderson--James White Interview, part two

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part one

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part two

Cult-Like Tendency in Modern Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism, part three

Deconstructing Jack Schaap

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part one

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part two

Does Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord Teach a True Gospel?  part three

Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church

False Teachers Are Carnal Warriors Who Use Carnal Weapons

Family Radio: Non Prophet, But Plenty of Profit

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His conversion (?): Part 1 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His Education & "Preaching": Part 2 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: His "Preaching": Part 3 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: "Inspired Preaching" and Visions, Part 4 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Visions, Voices, and Hysteria, Part 5 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Supernatural Spirits & Sleep, Part 6 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: A False Pentecost, Part 7 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: Mrs. Jones of Islawrffordd, Part 8 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: False Conversions, Part 9 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Welsh Revival of 1904-1905: The Opposite of Jonathan Edwards, Part 10 of 22

Evan Roberts: 100,000 "saved" by his false gospel? Part 11 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Confusion on Assurance of Salvation, Part 12 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: The Translation Message, Part 13 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Date-Setting Deception in the Translation Message, Part 14 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Deceived by Satan, Part 15 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Britain, Part 16 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Rise of American and Continental Pentecostalism I, Part 17 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & the Rise of American and Continental Pentecostalism II, Part 18 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts & Ecumenical Feminism, Part 19 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Enemy of the Welsh Revival, Part 20 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Destroyer of Welsh Baptist Churches, Part 21 of 22 (T)

Evan Roberts: Destroyer of Welsh Christianity, part 22 of 22 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: "Baptist" Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 1 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: "Baptist" Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 2 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: "Baptist" Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 3 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: "Baptist" Kewsick Advocate & Apostate False Teacher, part 4 of 4 (T)

Frederick B. Meyer: Applications from his Keswick Apostasy, part 1 of 2

Frederick B. Meyer: Applications from his Keswick Apostasy, part 2 of 2

Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic, part 1 of 21 (T)

Hannah W. Smith and The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, part 2 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Quakerism, and Self-Examination rejected; part 3 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Sign Gifts and Pentecostal Roots: part 4 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Inner Light and Biblical Misinterpretation; part 5 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic (T)

Hannah W. Smith, Universalism, and an Unholy and Unhappy Life: part 6 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, Spiritualism, Universalism, and the Rise of Keswick: part 7 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith's Higher Life patrons, the Mount-Temples: part 8 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith and Keswick Precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 9 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Haanah W. Smith, occult spiritualism, and the Keswick precursor Conventions at Broadlands: part 10 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, the Continuation of Miraculous Gifts, and the Root of Keswick at the Broadlands Conventions: part 11 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith, erotic "Spirit baptism" and the occult: part 12 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Broadlands is Keswick: part 13 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith and Catholic Mystical Quietism: part 14 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith's Higher Life Corruption of Conversion: part 15 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith Learns the Higher Life from a Sexual Predator and Fanatic: part 16 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah and Robert Smith's Preaching the Higher Life's Erotic Baptism: part 17 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith's Mentor in the Sexual Baptism, Dr. Foster; part 18 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Hannah W. Smith's Spread of the Erotic Baptism of Post-Conversion Power: part 19 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Robert Pearsall Smith and the Keswick / Higher Life Preaching of Post-Conversion Sexual Baptism: part 20 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

Applications from Hannah W. Smith's Life: part 21 of 21 in Hannah W. Smith: Keswick Founder, Higher Life Preacher, Quaker Quietist and Universalist Heretic

The Hyles-Schaap Fallacies

Hyles: Supernatural and Spiritual Fraud (J)

The Inspired Books of Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Christian Scientists, Muslims, and Others (T)

Jack Hyles: The Enemy of Soulwinning (part one) (J)

Jack Hyles: The Enemy of Soulwinning (part two) (J)

John Wesley -- heretic or hero? (T)

Jordan Peterson: The Lowering Standard of Acceptance

More on John Wesley, baptismal regeneration and Arminianism (T)

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 1

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 2

Rampant Ideological Hylesism, pt. 3

Response to a Baptist preacher influenced by Zane Hodges' view of 1 John, part 1 of 2 (T)

Response to a Baptist preacher influenced by Zane Hodges' view of 1 John, part 2 of 2 (T)

The Roman Catholic "Church": Now Controlled by Modernists and Sodomites? (T)

Questions for Seventh Day Adventists (T)

Schaap and Hyles and the Presence of God (J)

So Do You Think He Was Saved? Saul, Wesley, Luther, Etc.

Steven Anderson Is a False Teacher Who Believes and Preaches a False Gospel

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? part 2 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 3 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 4 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 5 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 6 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 7 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 8 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 9 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 10 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics?  part 11 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 1 (T)

Were the Reformers Heretics? Appendix Part 2 (T)

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians?

What Has Happened that the Gospel Has Been So Messed Up by Professing Christians? pt. 2

Woke: Evangelical Rift Caused or Influenced by Seismic False System of Interpretation of Scripture

Family

American Idol

Book Review: God's Wisdom for Marriage & the Home by Scott Markle

Family:  Elderly

Diminished Value and Shuffleboard Syndrome

Feelings

I Feel (J)

Fellowship

The Basis of our Fellowship with Others

Correcting False Doctrine Outside of Your Church: Permissible or Encouraged in Scripture?

Forgiveness

But I Don't Know HOW to Forgive

How Can I Forgive? (Colossians 3:13)

Friendship

And Yet, We Are Friends

Gender or Sex

Ability to Judge, Standard of Judgment, and Judging Effeminate Behavior (and Separating from It)

Biblical Evangelism and an Approach to the Possible Success of Bill AB 2943 in California

The Capitulation of the Church Hastened Transgenderism

Concessions As Root Cause of Same Sex Marriage

Embarrassment: Leviticus 18, NY Times, and Albert Mohler

Gagging at Yukkiness

A Gay Marriage Case Study: Whether It Hurts Someone Else Deciding Whether It Is Right

Gender Fluidity: The Destruction of the Symbols That Serve to Distinguish One Gender from Another

God Designed Roles, Their Symbolism, and Sodomy

"He" vs. "they": the 3rd Person Singular English Pronoun, Feminism, Patriarchy, and Biblical Christianity in Grammar (T)

How Are Men Supposed to Act?

I am a Pigeon: A Manifesto for Marriage Equality, Animal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Transspecies Rights

The Leaven of Herod, Homosexuality, and Albert Mohler

Masculine Pastors: The Battle They Face and Will Face Even More

Megyn Kelly and the Concept of the Female Role Model

My Take on the Support of Same Sex Marriage

The Myth of Born Homosexuals

Not Ducking the Homosexual Issue

Noticeable Increase in Effeminate Sounding Men

Observations About Men and the Power of Women

Recognizing the Contradictions: Same Sex Marriage and the First Amendment

Repudiating the Fake Playboy Manhood, Partly of Trump

Same Gender Intimacy and Coition Is Bad and Worse

The Seriousness of the Symbolism for Male Headship (part one) (J)

The Seriousness of the Symbolism for Male Headship (part two) (J)

Should Homosexuals be Put to Death by the Government? (T)

Sons Need Dads and Same Gender Marriage: Something's Gotta Give

The Supreme Court Decisions on Same Sex Marriage

To Bring Male and Female Roles Back to their Original Design: WHY JESUS CAME? (J)

Why Should Men Protect or Defend Women If They Aren't or Can't Be In Charge of Women?

Genuineness

Is That a Chihuahua?

Goodness

Is Conscience the Guide for Goodness?

Good, "Evil," and Evil, "Good"

A Grab Bag On Goodness

Help the Homeless: Buy Them Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco? (T)

Gospel (see Salvation)

Government (see Politics)

Grace

The Free Flesh ("Grace") Movement

The Perversion of God's Grace from Evangelicals

Great Commission

Completing the Prescription

Hafley-Brandenburg Debate on Eternal Security

Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve

Healing and Sickness

A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 1 (T)

A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 2 (T)

A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 3 (T)

A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 4 (T)

A Paradigmatic Example of New Age Medicine and How to Expose and Analyze it, part 5 (T)

James 5:14-20:  The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 1 (T)

The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 2

The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 3 (T)

The Pentecostal Doctrine of Faith-Healing and James 5:14-20, part 4 (T)

James 5:14-20 and Unconventional or Alternative Medicine, part five (T)

Health Issues

Bodily Exercise Profiteth Little

The Budwig Protocol: Deadly Cancer Quackery (T)

Dangers in Samaritan Ministries (T)

Dangers in Samaritan Ministries, Part 2 (T)

Dangers in Samaritan Ministries, Part 3 (T)

Health Threats from Samaritan Ministries, part 1 (T)

Health Threats from Samaritan Ministries, part 2 (T)

Health Threats from Samaritan Ministries, part 3 (T)

Oasis of Hope in Tijuana, Mexico: Scamming Desperate Cancer Patients with Quackery (T)

The Providence of God and Sickness

Samaritan Ministries Election: My Vote

Hell (Lake of Fire)

The Lake of Fire: Eternal Torment or Annihilation / Soul-Sleep?

Heresy

The Heretical Use of the Label, "Heresy"

Hermeneutics

A Case Study on Jesus' Teaching from Scripture

If It's Not Consistent, It's Not the Truth (Part One)

If It's Not the Consistent, It's Not the Truth (Part Two)

If It's Not Consistent, It's Not the Truth (Part Three)

If It's Not Consistent, It's Not the Truth (Part Four)

History

Negotiate This

Holy Spirit

Lead, Guide,and Direct: What is This?

The Negativity of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit:  Continuationism or Soft Continuationism

Actual Sensing of the Holy Spirit or God and then the More Prominent Fake Kind, Which Is a Lie

Does the Holy Spirit Lead Believers by Talking to Them Directly?

Everyone Justified by Faith Has the Unction and the Anointing

"God Told Me"

Keswick and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Experience Over Grammatical Exegesis

The Keswick-Continuationist Prayer Equivalent Everywhere in Christianity

The Oracle of Delphi, Preaching, Power, and Sensing God

Sensing the Presence of God: Is It Biblical?

What Continues Today from Eras of Miracles? Thoughts on the Non-Charismatic Continuationism

What Is the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in John 16:13?

You Know You're a Continuationist When....

Holy Spirit:  Baptism of the Spirit

Baptism of the Spirit

Baptism of the Spirit Deux

Do You Pray for the Outpouring of the Spirit?

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 1 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 2 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 3 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 4 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 5 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 6 (T)

Endnotes to Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist view, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism--The Historic Baptist view, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 8 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 9 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 10 (T)

Spirit Baptism, the Historic Baptist View, part 11 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 12; Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 3 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 13; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 4 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 14; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 5 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 15; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 6 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 16; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 7 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 17; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 8 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 18; the Alleged Reference in 1 Corinthians 12:13, part 9 (T)

Spirit Baptism—the Historic Baptist View, part 19 (T)

Spirit Baptism--the Historic Baptist View, part 20 (T)

Spirit Baptism--the Historic Baptist View, part 21 (T)

Spirit Baptism--the Historic Baptist View, part 22 (T)

Holy Spirit:  Testifying

Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum

Husband-Wife Relationship

Just Due It

Hypocrisy

The Duggars: Christianity and Hypocrisy

Vulgarity, Meaning, Evangelicalism, Politics, and Hypocrisy

Imagination

Coherent or Incoherent Imagination, Depending

Intolerance, Tolerance, and Relativism

A Case Study in Fake Tolerance

A Case Study in Fake Tolerance, pt. 2

How Much Diversity Should a Christian Allow and What Is His Responsibility to Error?

Intolerance of Belief

The NFL: Moral Relativism and Violence Against Women

The Now Irrelevance of Cultural Relativity

Toleration and Acceptance Therapy

What Is Diversity and Is It Right Now Welcome in the United States?

Who Can Say Who's Wrong?

A Wicked Idea, Actually Satanic Lie, That You Cannot Judge Things

Jesus Christ

Another Jesus

Jesus Is Jehovah

Jesus Is Lord (J)

Jesus Isn't a Rorschach

Mark 13:32: the Son's Glorious Ignorance of the Day and Hour

The Mission of the Messiah’s Grace: A New Order of Living, Isaiah 42:1-4

Preaching with Power, Like Jesus Christ Did (T)

The Sufficiency of Jesus

Jesus Christ:  Christmas (Birth of Christ)

Happy Hanukkah, I Mean It

Too Many “Coincidences”

We Know What We’re Singing at Christmas, But Do They?

Judging

Fake It Till You Make It

Everybody Draws Lines (It Really Is All About Why)

Jerry Bridges Judges Judgmentalism (J)

Judging People to Be Saved

Strange

Social Networking Sites (SNS): A Case Study for Standards of Judgment

A Wicked Idea, Actually Satanic Lie, That You Cannot Judge Things

You Can't Know My Heart

Justice

DOING JUSTICE: Weighing Problems in a Just Manner

Thoughts About What We Want and What We Deserve