Review Of Thomas 'Navigational Apologetics'

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Good Insight, Thomas I really like the way you summarized the article about incarnational and informational apologetics. James is the perfect book to use here to explain this subject. In the same context, the truth is that Satan and his demons have faith and believe that Jesus is coming again to judge them. In fact, they testify of Jesus in the book of Mark and John. However, does that believe changed or transformed their lives? No and a million no…. On the contrary, saving faith will show evidence of your transformation. But dead faith is a counterfeit faith which has no transformation in once life. However, saving faith is active in once life. As you read through the book of James; he chose two great examples of saving faith. You can see

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