The Discerning Christian

How the Believer Detects Truth from Error
in the Midst of Today's Religious Confusion

K. Neill Foster

Christian Publications, Inc.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Christian Publications, Inc.
I25 S. 10th Street. P.O. Box 3404,
Harrisburg, PA 17105

ISBN: 0-87509-312-4

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 81-69546
© 1981 by Christian Publications, Inc. All rights reserved
Quotations from the New International Version Copyright 1973
by the new York Bible Society International are used by permission.
Scripture quotations from the New American Standard Bible,
© The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, are used by permission.

Printed in the United States of America

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Dedication

Contents

Chapter	Page
Purple Mountains	9
Christian Discernment	11
The Philosophic Base	15
Some of the Issues	21
Deception-A Fact of Life	45
Attitudes Which Contribute toward Discernment	52
Channels of Discernment	60
Discernment and the Will	77
Discernment in the Book of Acts	81
Apostle of Discernment	91
Epilogue	102
Bibliography	103

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Chapter 1