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Do You Believe? Today we’re flooded with opinions and ideas. And they all might be interesting, but are they true? Would you die for them? Ben Myers re-introduces the Apostles’ Creed. He helps us to see how difficult and counter-cultural the Creed really is. It doesn’t give us sweet, empty words. It’s a faith that demands we die so that we might live. In the early church many converts died for...

everything in this world has been made by the good and wise God whom they had come to know in Jesus. Part of the appeal of Gnosticism lay in its response to the problem of evil. Why is there so much evil and suffering in this world? It is, the gnostic teachers reasoned, because the world is the product of an evil god; the very stuff of creation is deficient. That is an elegant solution to the problem of evil. But it raises even worse problems. If previously I had been tormented by experiences of
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