On the ultimate sense obedience is an issue of the heart, of purpose, and motive. The apostle Paul stated that the whole law can be summed up in the word "love" (Romans 13:10). As Charles Finney said:  "Now this cannot be true, if the spirit of the whole law does not respect intentions only. If it extends directly to thoughts, emotions and outward actions, it cannot be truly said that love is the fulfilling of the law." (1)

What does the Lord require of you?

What does the Lord require of you?

One of the most common forms of false argumentation involves the use of miss-definitions. For example, in Watchtower literature, Jehovah's Witnesses will often miss-define the Trinity and then criticize that definition. This is called "the straw man argument." It works through the process of misrepresenting a teaching - creating "a straw man" - and is followed by a demolition of that misrepresented teaching. In the case of the Watchtower, if a reader is not aware of the correct definition of the Trinity, they will be more likely to consider the arguments valid and therefore reject the Trinity.

By Ken Raggio

Revelations 17:1-4, 6

"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.