Message #34761

[Mark]

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 AT 1:26AM
Today's Show: BRANSON, THE BIBLE & JOHN 14

Chris discusses the recent World View Weekend family reunion in Branson, Missouri this past weekend with some of the highlights of the experience -- including many discussions on the authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God.  Has America turned completely away from this belief?  And if so, why?  Also discussed is John Chapter 14 which contains one of the most important Scripture verses for the time in which we live. 

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_JOHN.CHAPTER.FOURTEEN_04.30.13.mp3


TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013 AT 7:18AM
Today's Show: THE MYTH OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM?

Chris discusses a new book by a Notre Dame professor who claims that -- despite what the Church has believed for 2000 years -- Christians were never persecuted by Rome in the early centuries.  As is typical with such claims, it is said there is "no evidence" of a systematic attempt to hunt and kill Christians prior to the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D.  Could this be true?  What's more is that the author, Candida Moss, uses this argument as a political weapon against conservative Christian politics.  Her argument is that Christians have used the "myth" of Christian martyrdom to advance their political ambitions, and that this has been true from the beginning.  But is her book really history?  Or part of an agenda?

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_CHRISTIAN.MARTYR.MYTH_04.30.13.mp3


WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 AT 3:31PM
Today's Show: THE DECEPTIVE HISTORY OF CANDIDA MOSS

Chris continues his discussion of the book, "The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom," by Candida Moss, professor of New Testament history and Christian Origins at Notre Dame University.  Her book is, admittedly, written with a pointedly political purpose, by which she argues that modern Christians view all opposition to their beliefs as "persecution" because they believe in the early persecution of the Church.  In response, Dr. Moss attempts to refute the stories that Christians were persecuted for their faith -- despite two thousand years of history that contradicts her -- and has crafted clever arguments (described as "sophistry" by one reviewer) in a desperate attempt to justify her otherwise misleading title.

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_CANDIDA.MOSS_05.01.13.mp3


THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013 AT 10:23PM
Today's Show: ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY

Chris responds to a comment from a Catholic listener concerning the martyrs in the first three centuries of Church history.  Were they Catholic?  Or was the Roman Catholic system developed centuries later?  Did early Christian writers consider the Church to have been founded on Peter?  Or upon the revelation that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God?  Also discussed are follow up comments concerning Cassie Bernall and the controversy over her martyrdom during the tragic Columbine shooting of 1999.

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_ORIGIN.OF.PAPACY_05.03.13.mp3


SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013 AT 6:20AM
Today's Show: THE SALVATION OF POPE FRANCIS

Chris discusses a quote from the newly elected Pope Francis who said: "it is not possible to find Jesus outside the Church."  The rest of his quote makes it clear that the "church" in view is the Church of Rome.  But what about all the ecumenical dialogue?  What about Pope John Paul II referring to Billy Graham as his "brother," and meeting with Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, etc.?  During the Middle Ages, Pope Clement VI openly stated that all those who had refused to submit to Papal authority had "been damned and gone down to Hell."  While many evangelicals are given the impression that Rome has changed her apostate doctrines, this latest declaration from the Pope reveals the unchanged condition of the great harlot. 

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_POPE.FRANCIS.SALVATION_05.06.13.mp3