This sarcastic article reveals how Satan used yet another “Christian philosopher,” Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), to change the meaning of the word faith. As a direct result of his lunatic ravings, the word faith now means nothing more than “hope.” So today, people talk in terms of Christians taking a “leap of faith” as though that has always been what Christians believed. They have no idea the Protestant Reformers believed that Christian faith (belief) must always have a definite content.
This article addresses an issue that most Christians never stop to consider. When Christians hear the word tradition used in the sense of religious tradition, most of them immediately think of the Jews. They fail to understand that the Church today also has just as much tradition—that is, oral Teaching—as the Jews. The only difference is, the Jews wrote down their oral Teaching ca. A.D. 200, and the oral tradition of the Church is still being handed down from generation to generation orally. Unfortunately, the oral tradition of the Church changes with every generation.
This month the topic is Pretenders and the personal experiences of the author that honed and shaped the sarcasm he has begun to direct at them in the articles of the newsletter.