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3rd Edition Now Available: Hath God Said? Emergent Church Theology

January 2, 2015 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Hath God Said? Emergent Church Theology (3rd ed.) is now available: free PDF, paperback available for order from HBP or CreateSpace, Kindle Edition available from Kindle.

In this new edition, content has been added and updated (now 300 pages). Major additions include a chapter entitled “A Better Atonement,” and a section entitled, “The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints.”

The labels Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emergence Christianity, and New Christianity all imply innovative and progressive understandings of Orthodox Christianity. Like nailing jello to a wall, many have attempted to understand and define the Emergent movement only to be frustrated and confused.

At the heart of the Emerging movement is the worldview of postmodernism which teaches that truth is relative and subjective. This book by Elliott Nesch demonstrates how postmodernism is incompatible with a biblical worldview of absolute truth and the authority of the Scriptures on various topics including feminism, homosexuality, hell, mysticism, eschatology, Jesus Christ and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and more.

In Hath God Said? - Emergent Church Theology, the teachings of the Emergent movement are exposed in light of Scripture. Also by comparing early Church writings with Emergent writings, it becomes evident that the Emerging Church is not preaching the faith once delivered to the saints.

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Jesus of Testimony

February 20, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

An indispensible look at the Jesus of history and the Jesus of the Bible. . . Jesus of Testimony is hands down the best and most comprehensive look at the historical Jesus.

- Greg West, The Poached Egg, Ratio Christi’s Christian Worldview and Apologetics Network

For more information, visit the official Jesus of Testimony page. Did Jesus really exist? If so, what can we know about Him historically? For any Christian, the historicity of Jesus isn’t merely a matter of curiosity. The Christian faith is dependent upon the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as historical reality. But how can we know if the Jesus of the the Gospels is historical or legendary? Jesus of Testimony answers many of the important questions for skeptics as well as Christians in the area of Christian apologetics. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Canon, Faith, Gospel, HBP Films, Healing, Jesus, Jesus Myth, Kingdom of God, Manuscript Evidence, Miracles, New Testament Studies, Orality, Papias, Paul the Apostle, Peter the Apostle, Prophecy, Repentance, Textual Criticism

Zeitgeist: “Largest Grassroots Movement”

February 4, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

According to a recent report: “Recognized as the largest grassroots social movement in the world with chapters in over 60 Countries,” (source) the Zeitgeist movement is gaining momentum. Zeitgeist: The Movie was a 2007 documentary-style film by Peter Joseph. It presents a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, such as the Christ myth theory, conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and postulates that bankers manipulate the media and international monetary system. The film has been translated in multiple languages and the Zeitgeist movement has international chapters in over 50 nations.

Below is our film Zeitgeist Refuted Final Cut in which we debunk the claims made by Zeitgeist concerning Christianity. Also below is Zeitgeist, History Rewritten by Chris White in which he talks about the history of the theories presented in Zeitgeist part one and debunks a lot of the new material that has come out after the film’s release.