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Slandering the Angels: The Message of Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a society where the claim that we can know absolute truth is dismissed as ridiculous, and moral standards are disregarded if they interfere with personal enjoyment, the church is under threat in two ways. Tired of swimming against the tide, it can be tempted to throw away its commitment to biblical standards of behavior and to the uniqueness of Christ as the only Lord and Savior in the quest...

Neither is a Christian simply someone who seeks to be kind to others and tries to live by the ‘golden rule’. There is nothing wrong with being kind. It is to be encouraged. But there are many kind atheists or Buddhists. It is not kindness which makes a Christian. In particular, in the context of the sort of error Jude is confronting, the churches need reminding that a Christian is not someone who has simply had some vivid spiritual experience or other. Jude tells us that a Christian is someone who
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