RealBelief.com will serve as a global platform for biblical teacher Jerry Dennis. We want to counter the pervasive corruption of the basic Christian Gospel by misinformation, misunderstanding, misquoting and general misuse of the Bible: both intentional and unintentional.
This will be a teaching site. We are currently in production of a series of DVD video lectures. These will be followed by newsletters and other materials.
What Do You Really Believe?
Ever since I was a young minister and fresh seminary graduate in Indiana, my single biggest frustration has been that so many Christians misread/misunderstand/misquote the Bible. This, coupled with old wife’s tales, superstitions, and the mountain of writings from other sources has led many Christians to the point where their own personal belief systems are confusing. For example, many quotations from Mark Twain are thought to be from the Bible. Quite often, when you need your faith to lead you through personal crises, you don’t know for sure what you really believe.
No one wants to be in such a confused state, but we are all victims of two thousand years of meddling with the basic Gospel of Jesus Christ. Over the decades, the earthly traditions of the organized church coupled with the false teaching and preaching of untold thousands of “false prophets” (as Jesus called them) have made it very difficult to sort out our own personal faith. Add to this the misleading and inaccurate books, movies, and TV shows based on “religious fiction” plus other pop culture treatments of Christianity further muddling up our faith.
Because of all this, I have taught 20+ classes over the years in subjects ranging from overviews of the Old and New Testament, to history of the church in the first and second centuries. I have written curriculums on theology, church history, Roman history, religious philosophy, comparative religions, textual criticism, etc. Beginning this fall, at the Wednesday Discover Night program, I will try to condense much of these past classes into a series of DVD classes which I will call “What Do You Really Believe.” I hope to make the material appeal to all ages from teenagers on up.
Jerry Dennis