Study Materials
Moral Issues Confronting the Church and Society
The Intrinsic Value of Human Life
- Suicide: Self-Deliverance or Self-Condemnation?
- Euthanasia: The Case of Terri Schiavo
- Doctor Assisted Suicide and Mercy Killing
- Abortion and the Right to Life
- The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part One)
- The Bible and Abortion: The Woman’s “Right to Choose” versus the Baby’s “Right to Life” (Part Two)
- Death for You, Freedom for Me: What the battle over abortion is really about (by Tyler Young)
Homosexual Behavior
- The Dignity of Traditional Marriage
- So-Called “Gay Marriage” and the Bible
- The Sin of Homosexuality
- Does the Bible Really Permit Homosexual Practices?
- Open Letter to Gay Activists and Answer to a Pro-Gay Pamphlet
- Detailed Answers to Arguments Put Forth By a Pro-Gay Theologian
- Are the Same-Sex Sanctions of the “Holiness Code” Normative for Christian Ethics? (PDF)
Marriage and Divorce
Christian Ethics and Secular Government
- A Respectful Answer to President Obama about Biblical Interpretation and the Legitimate Moral Basis for Civil Law
- Religion and Civil Law
- The Looming Threat of Anarchy: Abounding Lawlessness and Abating Love
- Does Resistance to Religious Error Allow the Use of Armed Force?
- Should Christians Favor One Political Party Over Another?
- Video: “Christianity and Politics” By Phillip Gray (Anaheim, California 2002)
Youth and Ethics
- The Youth Must Make Ethical Choices
- Immodest Equals Immoral
- Christian Piety and the School Prom
- You’re Not Going to the Prom? By Allen Webster
Mind-Altering Substances
Important Doctrinal Concerns for All Religious Persons
Importance of Doctrine
- Do I Love God’s Truth Enough to Break With My Family Religious Tradition If Necessary?
- Terror Attacks on the United States Should Have Sounded the Death Knell for Religious and Ideological Pluralism
- Chart on “Drawing Lines” of Fellowship (PDF)
Plan of Salvation
- Salvation, God’s Free Gift — By R. W. Gray
- What Can Wash Away My Sins? A Study of Baptism for the Remission of Sins — By R. W. Gray
- Defense of Doctrine of Baptism for the Remission of Sins Against Attacks By a Denominational Greek Scholar — By Lawrence Barclay
The Biblical Doctrine of the Church
- “Upon this Rock I will Build My Church—Period!”
- Restoration of the Original Church of Christ is a Biblical Concept — By R. W. Gray
- The Lord’s Prayer (and Divisions within Christendom) — By R. W. Gray
Biblical Interpretation
- The Resurrection of Negative Thinking — By R. W. Gray
- Strict Construction of the Bible Versus the Alternative of Religious Anarchy
- Principles of Interpretation and Instrumental Music — By R. W. Gray
- Which Translation? — By R. W. Gray
- More On the Translation Controversy — By R. W. Gray
- What Law? — By R. W. Gray
Refuting False Doctrine
- Can a Christian Fall From Grace? — By R. W. Gray
- Christ and the Faith of the East
- The Battle of Armageddon — By R. W. Gray
- Some Thoughts on Dispensationalism — By R. W. Gray
- Sabbath Keeping — By R. W. Gray (PDF)
- The Lord’s Day (PDF)
- DNA Evidence Destroys Mormon’s Claim — By Bill Dillon
- Critique of Jehovah’s Witnesses (PDF)
Other Issues
- Should We Use Wine for the Lord’s Supper?
- The Boundless Love of God
- Women in the Church
- Liberalism in the Church
- Sound Doctrine and a Critique of Rubel Shelly
- A Concerned Response to a Christian Brother and His Views on Repentance
- “Joining the Church”—Let’s Eschew This Sectarian Shibboleth
Evangelism and the Defense of Basic Christian Tenets
- The Right and Obligation to Defend the Faith
- Mission Work (Evangelism) Must also Be Defense Work
- Relationship Between Sponsoring Eldership and the Missionary
- The Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Reason
- “You Ask Me How I Know He Lives? He Lives…Where?”—Care With What We Teach in Song
Biblical Inerrancy
- Implications of Inspiration—Inerrancy and a Pattern-type Hermeneutic (Faulkner University Lectureship, Montgomery, AL 2013)
- Does an Inerrant Bible Really Matter for Doctrinal Purity?
- Answering a Brotherhood Critic of the Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy
Historical Veracity of Scripture
Advanced Studies in PDF Format
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Is Matthew the Touchstone? — A Seven-Session Bible Study on the Resurrection Narratives of Matthew’s Gospel (PDF)New
Did Matthew intend his resurrection account as literal history or theological metaphor? Based on the doctoral research of Dr. Phillip Anthony Gray (Amridge University, 2016), this seven-session study works through the entire Gospel — Matthew’s language, the first-century context, and the strongest counter-arguments — and concludes that Matthew reports a literal, bodily resurrection.
- Epistemic Responsibility and the Gradations of Punishment (PDF)
- What Must I Know to Be Saved? (PDF)
- The Universal Moral Law and Special Revelation (PDF)
- Are the Same-Sex Sanctions of the “Holiness Code” Normative for Christian Ethics? (PDF)
- Is “Close” Good Enough? (PDF)
- Isaiah 53 and Predictive Prophecy (PDF)
- Does God Know all the Future? An Evaluation of “Open Theism” (PDF)
- Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis of Old Testament Origins
- The Origin of the First Gospel (PDF)
- The Making of the King James Version of the Bible (PDF)