This should give you enough information to be comfortable defending the truth.<\/p>\n
“Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints<\/em>” (Jude 3).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: I have had a ton of friends who are part of denominations, mostly Pentecostals.\u00a0Obviously the first problem is the fact that they are part of a denomination. 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