Tag: False Gospel

• Cotton Candy Christianity Scorecard

  I don’t want to become one of those bloggers who becomes known for what he is against, or for pointing out how wrong other guys are, but this was just too funny to pass up.  It is also important to distinguish the gospel from all its counterfeits. For as Paul warns in Galatians 1.6-7: I…

  Dennis Griffith

  August 27, 2012

  Church Humor, Evangelical, Humor, Reformed Theology, Theology

  Christianity, Comparative Theologies, Cotton Candy Christianity, counterfeit Gospels, False Gospel, Gospel, Joel Osteen, Religious Satire, Theology

• The Therapeutic Gospel

  What may be the most famous chapter in all of western literature portrays the appeal of a “therapeutic gospel.” In his chapter entitled “The Grand Inquisitor,” Fyodor Dostoevsky imagines Jesus returning to sixteenth century Spain (The Brothers Karamazov, II:5:v). But Jesus is not welcomed by church authorities. The cardinal of Seville, head of the Inquisition,…

  Dennis Griffith

  February 20, 2012

  Gospel

  counterfeit Gospels, David Powlison, False Gospel, Therapeutic Gospel