What Motivates Religious Apostates By: Nick Broadhurst | - What is an apostate? An apostate is described in a dictionary as someone who abandons what they believed in, their faith or cause (Websters Dictionary). The word apostate comes from two Greek words that mean to go away from where one stands.
Apostate testimony is generally thought to be of suspect value. Why?
There are natural reasons why people leave a group. Here are some of them.
Biblical Principles for Separating From Backsliding Churches; Or, Separation and Schism: Distinctions You Need to Know
By Michael Wagner (January, 1999)
During the mid to late 1600s thousands of presbyterians in Scotland were martyred for their commitment to biblical Christianity. They refused to worship in the churches sanctioned by a corrupt civil government, and were hunted down and killed for worshipping according to the ... Tags:Michael Wagner, James Renwick, Covenanters, Presbyterians, Covenant oath, schismatics
The interpretation which has been given in the text of the strongest terms in the apostle's language respecting the antichrist, by understanding them of a virtual, in contradistinction to a formal and avowed assumption of blasphemous prerogatives, is so much in accordance with the general style of prophecy, and so ... Tags:Patrick Fairbairn, Interpretation of Prophecy, Apocalyptic imagery, Hengstenberg, mother of harlots, Gnostic teachers
