Rebuilding the Foundations

"Some people may dislike this book. It upsets applecarts, slays sacred cows, demands that we 'go back to the Bible' and for all of those reasons all of us must read it." —John Tancock, Welsh apologist, speaker and missionary

In the late second century, Irenaeus—a missionary weathered with age, persecution, and the ravages of life among the barbarians—complained about the heretics of his time:

"By transferring passages and dressing them up anew, the Valentinians adapt the oracles of the Lord t...