Supernatural Theology 40: Increasing Amounts of Unbelievers Going to Church

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O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.   –1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV)

The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.   –Psalm 14:1 (KJV)

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.   –2 Timothy 3:16-17 (KJV)

No prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  –2 Peter 1:20-21 (KJV)

Strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.  –Ephesians 2:12 (KJV)

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.   –Psalm 10:4 (KJV)

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  –Ephesians 4:18-19 (KJV)

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  –1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)


Dr. Rice will show you in this pamphlet why preachers ought to preach against sin; first, because Christians are against sin; second, because to preach all the Bible one must preach against sin; third, because the Bible plainly commands this; fourth, because of Jesus’ example; and fifth, because it brings revival.

Preach on booze. Preach on the scarlet sin, adultery…Preach on the dance, tell people that it is rotten as sin…Preach on the movies…made by vile, lewd people, holding up rotten moral standards, breaking down respect for marriage, pure love, hard work, God and the Bible…Preach against lodges…Preach against evolution and false cults. Preach on death, sin, Hell, judgment! Such preaching with boldness, with love, with tears, with Scripture, with faith, will bring great revivals, will save hardened sinners. –John R. Rice



R. Albert Mohler, “When the Bible Speaks, God Speaks,” Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy.

John R. Rice, Hell–What the Bible Says About It.

—. The Last Judgment of the Unsaved Dead.

—. Evolution or the Bible–Which?

—. Why Preach Against Sin?

Hugh Pyle, The Truth About Homosexuals.

David Meunier, Why I Can’t Be a Theistic Evolutionist.

Charles Hodge, What Is Darwinism? (warning: rejects evolution, but not young earth).

Ken Ham, “Young Earth Creationism,” Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design.

R. A. Torrey, ed. The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (Baker, 4 vols).

Evan Howard, “Evangelical Spirituality,” Four Views on Christian Spirituality.

Denny Burk, “Eternal Conscious Torment,” Four Views on Hell.

Kerby Anderson, A Biblical Point of View on Homosexuality.

R. Douglas Geivett, “Particularist View: Evidentialist Approach,” Four Views on Salvation.

John MacArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel (against the seeker-sensitive movement).

Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter.

—. The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict.

—. A Ready Defense.

—. Evidence for Christianity.

—. Handbook of Today’s Religions.

W. G. T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology (Calvinist soteriology). NOTE: Useful in lots of ways, but unfortunately he supports theistic evolution. Might be well balanced out by Charles Hodge’s Systematic Theology which is against evolution in all forms.

John Gerstner, Jonathan Edwards: A Mini-Theology (Calvinist soteriology).

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Wesleyan soteriology).

Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Wesleyan soteriology).



Arianism – of or relating to Arius or his doctrines especially that the Son is not of the same substance as the Father but was created as an agent for creating the world. –Merriam-Webster dictionary

Socinianism – an adherent of a 16th and 17th century theological movement professing belief in God and adherence to the Christian Scriptures but denying the divinity of Christ and consequently denying the Trinity. –Merriam-Webster dictionary

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