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Responses

Topical Index to Booklets and Articles Written in Response to Criticisms

Selected Titles:

• The Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches
• The Revelation of the Triune God According to the Pure Word of the Bible
• The Triune God: A Testimony of Our Belief and Experience
• A Reply to the Tract Against Witness Lee and the Local Church
• Modalism, Tritheism, or the Pure Revelation of the Triune God According to the Bible
• False Accusations Exposed and Refuted in the Light of the Scriptures
• The Clear Scriptural Revelation Concerning the Triune God
• The Truth Concerning Exclusivism
• The Truth Concerning Salvation
• What a Heresy-Two Divine Fathers, Two Life-Giving Spirits, and Three Gods!
• Mind Bending or Mind Renewing?
• Concerning the Person of Christ

A Response to Norman Geisler and Ron Rhodes’ Defense of an Open Letter and Critique of the Christian Research Journal’s Reassessment of the Local Churches

• Geisler and Rhodes Make Creeds, Not the Bible, the Rule of Faith
• Geisler and Rhodes Deny that God Is a Person
• Geisler and Rhodes Twist Quotes to “Prove” the Local Churches Teach Patripassianism
• Geisler and Rhodes Deny the Involvement of the Father in the Son’s Work
      Scholars Who Affirm the Working Together of the Three of the Divine Trinity
• Geisler and Rhodes Deny that “the Son” Is “the Eternal Father” in Isaiah 9:6
• Geisler and Rhodes Deny that “the Lord Is the Spirit” in 2 Corinthians 3:17 Refers to Christ
      Scholars and Bible Teachers Who Affirm That the Lord Jesus Christ Is the Spirit
• Norman Geilser Attacks "The Twofoldness of Divine Truth"
      Reflections: The Twofoldness of Divine Truth by Ron Kangas, published in Affirmation & Critique, Spring 2010
• Geisler and Rhodes Repeat False Witness in Accusing the Local Churches of “Litigiousness”
• Geisler and Rhodes Repeat False Witness Concerning SCP Bankruptcy
• Geisler and Rhodes Repeat False Witness Concerning ECNR Litigation

Libel Litigations

• The God-Men

  • General Background and Overview

  • The Experts Speak

    • Preface
    • Meet The Experts
    • Introduction
    • Testimony of John Gordon Melton, PhD
    • Testimony of John Albert Saliba, PhD
    • Testimony of Eugene Van Ness Goetchius, PhD, ThD
    • Testimony of Rodney Stark, PhD
    • Testimony of H. Newton Malony, PhD
    • Testimony of Edwin S. Gaustad, PhD
    • The Experts Speak—Contents

  • Decision

    • Statement of Decision (Highlights)
    • Statement of Decision (Complete)
    • Statement of Decision (Print Version)
    • Judge's Comments at the End of the Trial

  • An Open Letter Concerning the Local Church, Witness Lee and the God-Men Controversy, by Dr. J. Gordon Melton

    • Complete Text of Dr. Melton's Open Letter

• The Mindbenders

  • General Background and Overview
  • Retraction

• Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions

  • Harvest House Persists in Libel
  • Response to Harvest House Corporate Statement
  • Progress of the Litigation
  • Facts about the Pending Litigation
  • Scriptural Basis for Appealing to the Courts
  • Questions and Answers about the Litigation
  • Relevant Documents
    • Major Court Filings and Rulings
    • Miscellaneous Procedural and Evidentiary Rulings
    • Press Release and Public Statements
    • Letters of Protest Sent Prior to Litigation
  • Background Information About the Plaintiffs
    • Living Stream Ministry and the Local Church
    • The Local Churches
    • Living Stream Ministry