Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me a question at church. She had been given a pamphlet published by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America denomination. She asked me if I knew anything about the church. She and I both had assumed it was just one church. It's actually not, it's a denomination. A century ago it was larger than the PC(USA) denomination actually. So, I started to try and figure out what they believed. It might seem strange that I would do this, but I've discovered over the past few years that it matters who publishes a book--especially it is the publisher from a denomination. What the denomination believes shapes what they will publish. Many denominations take a very liberal view of scripture and that's going to be reflected in how the authors they publish interpret scripture--whether they take the whole Word to be the inerrant Word of God, whether they believe that the Truth can be found solely in God's Word or also in ...