At Red Door Church we’ve been taking a look at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS).  Along the way, we’ve noticed that Joseph Smith quotes directly from the King James Bible (KJV) or paraphrases it in a handful of places in the Book of Mormon (which was allegedly revealed to him by the angel […]
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One frequently asked question up here in South Royalton, VT (just a couple of miles from where Joseph Smith was born) is this: “Are the Mormons Christians?” A quick glance would give one the impression that they certainly are. Â They basically live like Christians, talk like Christians and go to “church” like Christians. Â So they
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What is a Creed? Everybody believes in something.  As Burk Parsons points out in his short pamphlet “Why Do We Have Creeds?“, we use the words “I believe” to express our thoughts about nearly everything.  At some point or another, they are found on the lips of every human being. The word “creed” is derived from
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On May 17th, 2015 many of us at Red Door Church will wear orange. Egyptian Christians taken hostage in Libya were decapitated on video by members of the Islamic group ISIS. Â The martyrs were wearing orange. Â We’ve seen multiple rounds of Christian executions now, though executions in general take place regularly it appears. “Following ‘takfiri’
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So far, the Letter to the Hebrews has established two things very clearly: there is a supernatural reality to our world that God created, and Jesus rules over it. But for people like us, living in a world where the natural seems all too real and powerful, that might be tough to swallow. To paraphrase
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In our last post examining the Letter to the Hebrews, we saw how real the supernatural is. As Hamlet told an old college buddy, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Yet even those spiritual beings and realities that our eyes haven’t (or can’t) see are
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