Future A Hope An Expected End

The Church, and all of its cardinal doctrines, has deep roots in history. That is why the Scriptures tell us to “…stoutly defend the truth that God gave once for all to his people to keep without change through the years” (Jude 3, tlb). With that fact in mind, how would you then respond if you learned you had embraced a teaching that was not believed by any of the early Church or Church fathers, including Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius or Augustine? What if you found your present belief was refuted by the Puritans, including Thomas Goodwin, John Owen and John Cotton, and all the great ministers of the Reformation, including John Wycliffe, John Knox, John Calvin, John and Charles Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Charles Spurgeon and many others? Finally, what if the teaching you believe to be true was not endorsed by a single Protestant before the 1830s? Would you ignore these serious concerns, or would you at least want to be like a Berean and “search the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so?” To help you in doing so, using the light provided by the Scriptures, is the object of this book.