This article begins with an introduction to a sermon on the wrath of God taken from Charles Finney’s Sermons on the Way of Salvation (1891). In a summary, it points out some of the lies that were creeping into that historic doctrine even in Finney’s day. It concludes by pointing out the fatal flaw in current Church doctrine that will ensnare Pretenders here at the End of the Age. Just for the record, Charles Finney was the single most effective nineteenth-century Evangelist.
One of the answers in this column gives some basic hermeneutical principles that one should apply when one reads the Scriptures. Another discloses how the Prophets easily concealed the Word of God using the accepted grammatical conventions of their day. Yet another evaluates existing translations of the Bible and emphasizes the need for True Believers to verify the veracity of what they hear taught about the original text of the Scriptures by checking a concordance. A final answer explains how to counter one of Satan’s most effective tactics—discontent.