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Counterfeit Christianity: The Persistence of Errors in the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historic heresies didn’t die or fade away. Each generation boasts its own. Even while these counterfeit teachings remain outside the accepted bounds of Christianity, modern-day versions plague churches.So how does a church leader or pastor understand and deal with these age-old controversies when they pop up in the congregation? In this book, Roger Olson describes the curses but also gifts...

tend to make what is revealed about God, Jesus Christ, and salvation in scripture too pictureable, too comprehensible, too simple. The result of all heresies is loss of transcendence—God’s otherness. God is never “just like that”—referring to something created. There are created analogies of truths about God, of course, but heresies tend to make God, Jesus Christ, and salvation “just like” something observable in nature or in human experience. All that is not to say that Christian truth should be incomprehensible,