/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>260369

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVEXZ38Vs8

le 8 hour may may video

Check out James White, John MacArthur, John Piper, RC Sproul, DA Carson and check out a site called Monergism.

Confessional Anglicanism is Reformed/Calvinist and is literally apostolic, catholic and liturgical. GOAT denomination. Check out the CoE Continuing. A conserative branch of the CoE. No women priests.

>>260377

This basically. Always read a lot, and don't forget meditation to make sure that your brain has truly digested what you've read. Google a lot too, don't rely too much on books, they're huge and aren't very specific.

>>260385

In fact, I don't think that reading a whole book is necessary anymore these days. Everyone on the internet has read these books for you. But if you want to get into the "experience" though, then it's okay.

>>260377

Terrible selection of books. You have Mere Christianity which is terrible. Christians have very little in common with Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics.

William Lane Craig. Terrible too.

Advanced theology is good.

You can feel free to purge all the Eastern Orthodox stuff.

Add John Calvin's Institutes and Luther's Bondage of the Will.

John Newman! LOL.

Lousy stuff. There is way better apologetics material tool.

CS Lewis's book on Miracles is great. But if you want an even better one read Craig Keeners two volume book called Miracles.

>>260369

Start with Matthew and Genesis, read till Malachi and Revelation.

Buy an easy Bible translation (like NLT).

Investigate every question you have - go to libraries and get conservative commentaries www.bestcommentaries.com, supplement with liberal/critical to know the enemy.

Use writings like the christian reading chart as icing on the cake, don't forget the Bible is God's revelation to man, and more specifically to you, OP.

>>260469

NLT is terrible. Man this board is terrible.

Read the ESV or NKJV if you want something in modern vernacular.

>>260369

I have had the same question. And I was brought up in many different protestant churches. Most of them taught essentials such as you'd find in Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. But they also divided over legalism, and dispensationalism, new thought metaphysics( word of faith movement).

I finally stumbled upon a radio program named the Bible Answer Man with Hank Hanegraaff. It was by his radio show that I finally was lead in a direction to seek out information and context especially.

In my own studies, encyclopedias are great for looking up manuscript names and evidence, as well as archaeology.

For gaining context a book named ' A Popular Survey of the Old Testament' - by Norman L. Geisler very helpfull.

For Eschatology – Revelation, Four Views, a Parallel Commentary by Steve Gregg.

Also the Popular Survey has some textual criticism. Having different versions of the Bible is nice for that too.

A concordance will help with looking up certain words and gaining definition and grammar on the text as well as tell you what language it was in and help to do cross references for further study.

And seriously consider using biblehub.com.

It's nice, many versions of the Bible to read. My personal favorite isn't on there and that is the New International Readers Version– which is basic reading in today's language–it is part 'word for word' and part ' thought for thought'.

And be sure to check out the lexicon on biblehub.com as it is a nice way to see the Hebrew word, or greek word etc…and helps study that.

And there are books to help you study,look up inductive reasoning a how to. Videos of Dr. Walter Martin on youtube aren't bad.

Pick a subject yourself, from the bible, get the context, do cross references, word study, look up any known archaeology of it…maybe like something on King Hezekiah. You can learn many things without even considering doctrine, but can help you to eventually test all things, hold fast to that which is good. Best of luck.

Also here is a feebie college class on the gospel of John, it's broken up by weeks and you get 1 video per week in email… — https://courses.dts.edu/register/gospel-of-john-registration/

>>260470

>Man this board is terrible.

KJV is by far the most popular translation on this board, followed closely by Douay-Rheims. /christian/ is pretty much as conservative as you can get in terms of Bible translations.

Almost forgot

Commentaries by a person like Mathew Henry are nice for further study. Biblehub.com has the full one and concise one, and plenty of others as well.

>>260482

It's the other things that make this board terrible. Like the LARPers and a whole bunch of Bible ignorant Catholics.

>>260483

I like Calvin's commentaries too. They are free.

>>260485

Yes, and many are free on www.biblehub.com

>>260487

Also if you go on sermon audio you will see James White (Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church) delivering a number of sermons on the synoptic gospels.

>>260484

If you don't like it you're free to go elsewhere. Didn't someone talk about starting a new board, /reformed/ a while back?

>>260494

There's a /kjv/ board

>>260371

Y go anglucan and not catholic or even ortho? Honest question

>>260522

Well I understand a lot of people like the liturgy and high church worship of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. But they are heretical. They have a false gospel which says you are justified by works and participation in the sacraments.

Whereas the Bible teaches no body is justified by works but by faith, and that works are evidence of salvation.

Galatians 2:15-16

15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified[a] by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Also for many other reasons. Anglicans are Protestant, Reformed, Evangelical. They have apostolic succession (but it doesn't matter), they are episcopal and catholic in beliefs.

In Anglicanism the highest authority is scripture as the Bible teaches it. Whereas Romanism holds itself to be the highest authority. Just heresy after heresy really. I mean you would be fine becoming Lutheran or Presbyterian. But I suggest Anglicanism because it has a strong sense of tradition. But only the Church of England Continuing.

>>260527

He's /christian/'s newest shitposting tripfag, you can ignore him

>>260536

I just felt his shitposting ability was noteworthy.

>>260490

Thank you. I have watched a video by Dr. James White in reference to Islam. Very good videos.

>>260369

>Five Solae

>Church Fathers

>EXTRABIBLICAL STUFF AS FACT

literal HERESY fam, the fuck you doing?

get yourself a NKJV bible. that's what you run every other statement or proclamation of religious authority against.

>>260580

> literal HERESY fam, the fuck you doing?

Why would anyone take advice from a literal LARPer and who has a foul mouth

>>260500

Problem solved, then. What are you waiting for?

>>260587

>foul mouth

Why are heretics so obsessed with avoiding strong language?

>>260596

Ephesians 4:29 brother

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

>>260587

>literal LARPer

I'm new to the board so I'm not sure what this meme is all about, please explain

>foul mouth

Got me there. I'm using it in a context that might lead to someone better understanding what to turn to for religious authority, which I feel is acceptable.

What's not acceptable is me using foul language to call you a nitpicking turbofaggot, which I'm also doing right now.

>>260600

Why are you such a faggot?

Just leave.

>>260665

He calls Latins and Orthodox LARPers for no discernible reason.