Apologetics Spotlights
Islam – Part 2
Prepared and Presented by Skylar Stevens, Youth Group Leader Week 2 – Theology You’ve probably heard of the 5 pillars of Islam in school (or you at least will) and these are how they practice their religion, we will talk about these next week, there are also 6 essential doctrines Muslims believe in. To believe […]
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Prepared and Presented by Jorge Jenkins, Youth Group Student Leader We are on our last part of our “What’s the Difference?” series. I’ll be introducing Islam. Why is focusing on Islam important? Well, for one, there are 1 billion followers worldwide who follow Islam, so it is more likely than not that you will encounter […]
Continue ReadingJehovah’s Witness Part 3
Prepared and Presented by Titus Prevatt, Youth Group Student Leader The Watchtower Today in our apologetics spotlight we will be finishing another religion. Our final week on this religion will be based around The Watchtower society. But what exactly is “The Watchtower?” The Watchtower society is basically the lawmakers for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They discern […]
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Prepared and Presented by Titus Prevatt, Youth Group Student Leader The series we are doing is titled “What’s the Difference?”. We are going through basic beliefs of different religions to see how they compare with the Bible. Now what this series should do is help you discern what’s in the Bible, and what is not. […]
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Prepared and Presented by Marissa Williams, Youth Group Student Leader Last week Brian kindly wrapped up Mormonism for us, so this week we’ll be moving on to another religion known as Jehovah’s Witnesses. I’m sure many of you have heard of this religious group, they seem to be most famously known for going door-to-door and […]
Continue ReadingMormonism Part 5
Prepared and Presented by Brian Jones, Youth Group Leader Archaeological differences and DNA discovery – Mormon vs Protestant church teachings: Mormons teach that their documents are historical and accurate Mormons teach that in one of their books called Ether, there were tribes called the Jaredites and Nephites. The book of Ether talks about these tribes […]
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Prepared and Presented by Emily Aufenkamp, Youth Group Leader Continuation of theological differences between Mormon and Protestant church teachings: My main question for us today as we are starting to wrap up our overview of Mormonism is: Why should we believe the Bible and not the Book of Mormon or the other Mormon books? Both […]
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Prepared and Presented by Leanne Donovan, Youth Group Leader Continuation of theological differences between Mormon and Protestant church teachings: The Mormon Church teaches that you must work for your salvation. On their website, churchofjesuschrist.org, it says that the key to eternal life is dependent upon “One’s worthiness in this life through living the gospel and […]
Continue ReadingMormonism Part 2
Last week we got a general overview of Mormonism and a tad bit of history. This week we are going to talk about some of the extra documents that Mormons use for their doctrine, along with some ideas that seems to contradict the Bible. To start, Mormons use the King James version of the Bible. […]
Continue ReadingCatholicism: Priests and Pastors
Prepared and Presented by Titus Prevatt, Youth Group Student Leader Today we’ll be going over priests and pastors in the Catholic church and what we believe regarding that. If perhaps you missed one of these spotlights, remember that you can find every apologetics spotlight on the EBC website. There you will find all of the […]
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