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No Other Doctrine
by Cross Christian Fellowship Pastor Scott Thom
No Other Doctrine is a prerecorded apologetics Bible answer show hosted by Pastor Scott Thom of Cross Christian Fellowship in Albuquerque, N.M. We teach you to answer questions about Christianity and give Reasons for your faith. Topics include Bible questions, Faith, Religion, Christian philosophy, Jesus, God, Cults, Theology, and so much more. Pastor Scott also has a ministry training school for pastors and leaders.
Episodes
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Why Jesus Is Unique, Can a Christian Be Bound by Generational Sin, and Are We Close to the End?
Picking up Diane's question from last week, Pastor Scott Thom shows why Jesus stands apart from every other religious founder: He forgave sins, gave life, accepted worship, claimed to be the way of salvation, and then proved it by rising from the dead before more than five hundred witnesses.…
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How Do We Know Which Religion Is True, and Who Is Melchizedek?
A listener named Diane asks the question so many people wrestle with: how did we end up with so many religions in the world, and how do you know which one, if any, is actually right? Pastor Scott Thom walks through why truth isn't just a personal preference, why contradictory religions can't all…
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The Believer's Crowns, and Who Really Goes to Hell?
Continuing the series on the judgments still to come, Pastor Scott Thom teaches on the judgment of the believer, the Bema Seat, and the four crowns Scripture promises for faithful service: the crown of rejoicing, the crown of righteousness, the crown of life, and the crown of glory. A listener...
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The Judgment of the Believer, and Do We Forfeit Our Inheritance?
Pastor Scott Thom kicks off a new teaching series on the five judgments yet to come - the judgment of the believer, the nations, Israel, the unsaved, and the fallen angels - starting this week with a deep dive into the judgment of the believer. He walks through why a Christian is never judged for...
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Is Communion Literally the Body of Christ? Plus Unconfessed Sin, a Strange Old Testament Law, and Finding a Church Home for Your Teens
On this episode of No Other Doctrine, Pastor Scott Thom takes on the doctrine of transubstantiation — the claim that communion elements actually become the literal body and blood of Christ — and walks through five biblical reasons the Bible points to remembrance, not repetition. A caller asks...
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Does Satan Know the Future? God's Jealousy, the Missing Books of the Bible, and Free Will in Eden
On this episode of No Other Doctrine, Pastor Scott Thom opens with a question he's asked often: how much does Satan actually know about the future? Walking through Job chapter 1 and Jesus' temptation in Luke 4, he shows that Satan can observe the spiritual realm but can't predict God's plans with...
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Understanding Prophecy: How to Rightly Interpret What God Has Spoken
In this episode of No Other Doctrine, Pastor Scott Thom tackles one of the most misunderstood areas of Scripture: prophecy. Rather than jumping straight to end-times predictions, Pastor Thom lays the groundwork first, walking through the historical-grammatical method for interpreting prophetic…
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How Do We Rightly Interpret Prophecy, What Happens After We Die, and Does God Hate Satan?
In this episode of No Other Doctrine, Pastor Scott Thom digs into biblical prophecy and how to interpret it rightly, walking through the literal (historical grammatical) method versus the danger of "spiritualizing" Scripture and reading meanings into the text that aren't there. He unpacks how...
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Is the Bible Really God's Word? Liberalism, Neo-Orthodoxy and the Inspiration of Scripture
What does it mean that all Scripture is God breathed? Pastor Scott Thom teaches on the inspiration of the Bible, from 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:21 to the way God worked through the personalities of men like Luke the physician and Paul the Pharisee without allowing a single error. He exposes…
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Why Isn't the Apocrypha in the Bible? Lost Gospels and How the Canon Was Chosen
Why do Catholic Bibles carry extra books, and what about the "lost books of the Bible" sold late at night? Pastor Scott Thom shows why the Apocrypha was rejected: Tobit teaches that almsgiving purges sin, 2 Maccabees supports prayers for the dead and purgatory, and Judith prays for a lying…
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How Did We Get the Old Testament? Jesus, the Jewish Canon and the Apocrypha's Errors
Who decided which books belong in the Old Testament, and why should Christians trust it? Pastor Scott Thom traces how the Jews, scattered after Rome destroyed the temple in 70 A.D., carefully guarded and listed their Scriptures, and why the Bereans of Acts 17 were called noble for testing Paul...
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What Are Angels Really Like? Entertaining Angels, Enemy Dreams and Binding Satan
What does the Bible actually say about angels? Pastor Scott Thom teaches who angels are: each one a direct creation of God and so called sons of God, the host of heaven created to glorify Him, spirits who can take on human form so real that Abraham ate with them. He tells the story of picking up…
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Do You Have to Be Baptized to Be Saved? And Is Communion Really Christ's Body?
Must you be baptized, and only "in Jesus' name," to be saved? Pastor Scott Thom tells how, as a brand new believer, a radio pastor told him his baptism "didn't take," and why something in his spirit said no. He then shows from Acts 2:38 in the Greek, from Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 1 that…
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Is the Canon Closed, and Can the Bible Be Trusted Without Error?
Could God still be adding books to the Bible today, and how do we know the one we have is trustworthy? Pastor Scott Thom finishes the tests every book had to pass, authentic, life transforming and received by God's people, and shows from Hebrews 1:1, 2 Peter 1:3, Jude 3 and Revelation that the...
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Why Is the Bible Unlike Any Other Book? Proof It Can't Be Tampered With
Is the Bible itself evidence that God exists? Pastor Scott Thom builds the case that the Bible is unique in every way that matters: in its circulation and translation, in how scribes counted every letter to copy it, and in surviving emperors who burned it and philosophers like Voltaire who...
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Four Things True Leaders Refuse to Accept
In this crossover with his Leadership From The Cross podcast, Pastor Scott Thom teaches that leadership is revealed not only by what a person achieves but by what they refuse to tolerate. True leaders reject groupthink for independent thinking, like Nicodemus seeking Jesus while the other…
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Which Bible Translation Can You Trust? King James Only and the Footnotes in Your Bible
Why do some Bibles carry footnotes saying a verse is "omitted," and is the King James the only trustworthy translation? Pastor Scott Thom explains the difference between a translation, a transliteration, a version, a revision and a paraphrase, and why Greek verb endings make translating harder…
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Why Do Some Leaders Thrive While Others Stall? High, Average and Low Achievers
Why do some people take off in ministry and in life while others plod along or go backward, even with the same opportunities? In this leadership teaching, Pastor Scott Thom compares high, average and low achieving leaders in three areas. High achievers make people the priority alongside the…
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Does Design Prove a Designer? DNA, Evolution and Reasonable Faith
Why do scientists announce "intelligent life" at the faintest pattern from space, yet call the vastly more complex code in our own DNA an accident? Pastor Scott Thom builds the argument from design in everyday pictures: a toddler drumming a rhythm, five trees in a perfect line, a cry for help...
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Red Light, Green Light: How to Know God's Will Before You Decide
Leaders influence people by their decisions, so how do you know a decision is God's will? Pastor Scott Thom shares the "red light, green light" method he has used for years, drawn from James 3. First the red lights, wisdom that is earthly and not from above: bitter envy, selfish ambition…
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Made for Friendship: Why God Created a World Where We Can Know Him
What kind of world did God make? Pastor Scott Thom takes a deeper dive into a subject rarely heard in church: God designed a world built for friendship with Him, something chance and evolution could never produce. Starting from Jesus as the Word made flesh, the perfect communication of God's…
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Where Does Your Soul Come From? What It Means for Race, Abortion and the Sin Nature
When does a person receive a soul, and why does it matter? Continuing his systematic theology series on the doctrine of man, Pastor Scott Thom shows that Genesis is literal when it says we were formed from the earth, then weighs the three main views of the soul's origin. Pre-existence, held by...
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Who Will Deliver Me from This Body of Death? And Did Jephthah Sacrifice His Daughter?
Why do we still struggle with sin after we're saved? Pastor Scott Thom opens Romans 7 and Paul's cry, "Who will deliver me from this body of death?", explaining the Roman punishment behind it: a traitor strapped face to face to a decaying corpse and left by the road. Jesus is the King who steps…
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"I Can Do All Things Through Christ": Contentment, and Did Paul Defy the Holy Spirit?
What did Paul really mean by "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"? Pastor Scott Thom shows from Philippians 4 that it is about contentment in every circumstance, plenty or want, because "more than enough" is a state of mind and not the state of your checkbook. He explains why…
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Three Kinds of Doubt: Factual, Willful and Emotional, and How to Answer Each
Most New Year's resolutions deal with the body, the job or a bad habit, but few deal with the fear, anxiety and doubt that hold us back. Pastor Scott Thom identifies three kinds of doubt. Factual doubt, like Thomas, wants evidence, and it is the easiest to answer: design in creation points to an...
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How Do I Find God's Will for My Life? Obedience, Authority, Humility and the Wisdom from Above
How do I find God's will for my life? It is one of the questions Pastor Scott Thom is asked most, and the answer is not rocket science, though it can feel counterintuitive. He starts with James 1:5: ask for wisdom, then obey everything God has already made plain, because many people pray for...
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Why Did God Allow Job to Suffer? Can Satan Read Your Thoughts? And What Is Molinism?
If God is just and loving, why did He allow what happened to Job? Pastor Scott Thom answers an emailed question by showing why God permits evil in a fallen world: courage needs something to fear, patience needs an irritation you cannot change, and deep, eternal relationship needs real character,...
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Seven Steps to a Happier Life: What the Bible Says About Real Happiness
What is happiness, and why do so many Christians still chase it? Pastor Scott Thom goes beyond the dictionary's "state of being happy" and gives seven steps to a happier life. Happiness starts with communion with God, not just being converted but knowing Him, unlike the carnal Corinthians. It…
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If Jesus Is God, Why Didn't He Know Everything? And Was Jesus Just a Myth?
If Jesus is God, how could there be things He did not know? Answering a caller, Pastor Scott Thom shows that this proves the Bible's accuracy rather than undermining it. Jesus is fully God and fully man, and the two natures never blend: the divine knows all things, while the human grew in wisdom...
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If God Designed Us, Why Can We Live Without Some Organs? And the Universalism Behind The Shack
If an all powerful God designed us, why would He give us organs we can live without, like the appendix or spleen? Pastor Scott Thom shows the question assumes its own conclusion: redundancy is not a flaw but superior design, like a second radiator in a desert race car or the backup power on your...
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Is the Holy Spirit Just a Force? Answering a Jehovah's Witness, and What Blasphemy of the Spirit Really Is
A listener's Jehovah's Witness relative said the Holy Spirit is only God's power, like electricity, and she was not sure how to answer. Pastor Scott Thom walks through the Spirit's personhood from Scripture. He surveys how groups from Arius to modalists, Mormons and Christian Science have each...
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Is Cremation Wrong for a Christian? Must We Keep the Sabbath? And Why the Fake Gospels Were Rejected
Four of the most asked questions in one show. Tom's friend is shaken by claims that the church threw out other gospels. Pastor Scott Thom shows why the apocryphal gospels fail every test: they were written 90 to 500 years after the events, so no detective would take them as eyewitness testimony,...
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Are We Predestined to Be Saved? God's Sovereignty, Our Free Will and the Lord's Prayer
What does it mean that believers are "appointed" to salvation? A listener asks, and Pastor Scott Thom says yes, he believes in predestination, but not as many people picture it. If God picks some for salvation and passes over the rest, He would not be the God who desires all to be saved. If He...
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How to Explain the Trinity from Scripture: One God, Three Persons, No Contradiction
What is the Trinity, and how do you show it from the Bible when someone at your door says it isn't there? Pastor Scott Thom sets aside the egg, water and sun illustrations, which don't fit, and gives a simple method you can use. Find what Scripture says belongs to God alone, then watch the…
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Why Every Leader Needs a Mentor: Pastor Scott's Interview with Pastor Raul Ries and Dale Goddard
Do you have someone who sees in you what you can't see yourself? Pastor Scott Thom opens with three things a mentor gives you: a vision of who you can become instead of who you were, the hard counsel and hard stops you would never give yourself, and an example to follow, as Paul said, "follow me…
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Where Does the Bible Say Jesus Is God? Redeemer, Shepherd, Creator and Giver of Life
Continuing a listener's question, "Where in the Word does it say Jesus is God?", Pastor Scott Thom moves past Jesus' own claims to the proof. When He forgave the paralytic lowered through the roof in Mark 2, He backed it up by healing him with a word. Then Pastor Scott shows how the New Testament...
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Why Couldn't God Just Pardon Us? The Atonement, "The Father Is Greater Than I," and Water Baptism
Why did Jesus have to die at all? Couldn't God simply pardon? Pastor Scott Thom shows that a pardon with no payment would make God either unloving, pardoning only a few, or unjust, like a judge who dismisses every third case while the victim pays for the wrecked car. The atonement is different:...
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No Other Doctrine - Pastor Scott Thom - Sacrifice, Trinity, Division in the Church
The "No Other Doctrine" program, hosted by Pastor Scott Thom, explores topics of doctrine, religion, and the foundations of the Christian faith. In the episode above, the importance of biblical doctrine is addressed, and objections and questions about the necessity of Jesus' death for the...
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Jesus Is Lord: How the Title "Kyrios" Proves the First Christians Believed Jesus Is God
Did Jesus ever really claim to be God, and did His first followers believe it? Continuing the series, Pastor Scott Thom looks at the title "Lord," Kyrios in Greek. Jesus stumped the Pharisees with Psalm 110: how could David call his own descendant "Lord"? Only if the Messiah is fully man and…
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Why Doesn't God Just Show Himself? Answering the Hiddenness of God
A listener texts a question many people have asked: if God is real, why doesn't He show Himself more plainly, and wouldn't more people believe? Pastor Scott Thom answers the "hiddenness of God." Spectacular signs don't guarantee faith: Egypt saw ten plagues and Israel saw Jesus raise the dead…
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Was Jesus Just a Myth? Five Marks of a Myth That the Gospels Don't Fit
"Jesus was just a myth." A listener did not know how to answer that, and Pastor Scott Thom gives a fresh way to do it: test the Gospels against the five marks scholars use to identify a myth. Myths reflect the culture they come from, yet Jesus overturned the teaching of His day, telling people to...
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Did Jesus Ever Claim to Be God? He Claimed It, Proved It, and Won Over His Skeptics
A listener admitted they couldn't answer most of the hard questions people ask Christians, so Pastor Scott Thom begins a series to train you, starting with the biggest: did Jesus ever claim to be God? First, ask the skeptic what they mean by "absolute proof." We believe things on a preponderance…
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How Can God Hear Millions of Prayers at Once? Why Did Jesus Say "My God"? And Is Theistic Evolution Biblical?
How can God listen to millions of prayers at the same moment when we can barely follow one conversation? Pastor Scott Thom sets aside the usual answer that God is simply "outside of time." Once God created, He acts in sequence, and sequence is time. But God is not bound to time the way we are. We...
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No Other Doctrine Returns: Why Sound Doctrine Matters, and What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
After 12 years and some 600 live call-in shows, No Other Doctrine is back. Pastor Scott Thom explains the name, from 1 Timothy 1:3, "that they teach no other doctrine," a verse God kept giving him before he moved to California for Bible college, where he was soon assigned to teach Bible doctrine...
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448 No Other Doctrine Question and Answers
"No Other Doctrine," where Pastor Scott Thom and host Carissa Thom invite listeners to call in with questions about Christian doctrine and Scripture interpretation. The episode emphasizes the importance of having a firm doctrinal foundation for one's faith and addresses various theological...
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Be Strong in the Lord - Worship Song with Lyrics
Be Strong in the Lord - Worship Song with Lyrics CrossFellowship.org Lyrics [Verse] Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord Stand tall in His power let His love accord In the power of His might we'll find the light Through the storms of life He'll bring us to new heights [Verse 2] Raise your...
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Exciting Update - New Podcast called "Navigating Life From The Cross"
Exciting Update - New Podcast called "Navigating Life From The Cross" Pastor Scott has a new powerful discipleship podcast called Navigating Life From The Cross. Listen to this podcast to discover the true power of discipleship and how it can transform your life. YouTube link:...
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447 No Other Doctrine Question and Answers
Episode 447: 11_02_19_NOD Leviticus chapter 6 and 7 - Could female descendants of Aaron also eat of the temple offering? James 5:14-15 Prayer over sick, if they are not healed was it because of lack of faith? Genesis chapter 6 – Sons of God Mormonism – what can I share with a Mormon who thinks…
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Did Dinosaurs live with man? Is there life in outer space? How do different religions treat women and how does that compare with Christianity? James 1:5. What does it mean to ask God for wisdom? What are other views of salvation? Slavery in the Bible.
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445 Question and Answer
445 Question and Answer Pastor Scott Thom A.R.E. seminars Edgar Casey Faith being something we do through works – What is a faith work? Matthew 24 – Who is a faithful and wise servant? Do we have different races in Heaven? Matthew 13:24 - What are the leaven and the pearl in the Word? Custom...
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No Other Doctrine is a prerecorded apologetics Bible answer show hosted by Pastor Scott Thom of Cross Christian Fellowship in Albuquerque, N.M. We teach you to answer questions about Christianity and give Reasons for your faith. Topics include Bible questions, Faith, Religion, Christian philosophy, Jesus, God, Cults, Theology, and so much more. Pastor Scott also has a ministry training school for pastors and leaders.
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