God-honoring and Bible-based Christian Mutual Funds
When we stand before the Lord, we will have to give an account for our use of money, along with everything else. All we have really does not belong to us, but is a stewardship we have from God. Scripture represents an abuse of financial stewardship as a serious sin (cf. James 5:1-5; Matthew 25:14-30). Do you own […]
Exploring Unacceptable Degrees of Normativeness of the Book of Acts
Making the New Testament book of Acts normative instead of transitional comes from a wrong perspective and interpretation of scripture and explains much wrong doctrine and practice in professing Christianity today. Some pin the needle on bad doctrine and practice, vis-à-vis the Charismatic movement. Some of it is bad, but not quite as bad, e.g., […]
Not God’s Problem: The Bible Does Answer the Question of Suffering in Lamentations
No one should be happy that Bart Ehrman gets a job teaching the Bible and religion on a state campus. Everyone should ask why it is that it must be someone like him the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill employs. Ehrman was a Moody Bible style confessing evangelical who apostatized at the latest […]
The Book of Life and Eternal Security–do Revelation 3:5 & Revelation 22:18-19 Teach that a Christian may Lose his Salvation?
The Bible teaches that the names of all the elect were written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names […]
The Root of Uncertainty: Not Can’t, Not Don’t, But Won’t
A few years ago now, Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You, told me something that I’ve now quoted quite a few times, but here goes again: Virtually everything is clear and certain in your mind. The pomos’ pathological uncertainty is in part a reaction to the unwarranted hubris of the rigid fundamentalist perspective […]
Same Gender Intimacy and Coition Is Bad and Worse
I’m trying to allow this article to pass through sensitive filters, so those, mainly Christians, won’t be blocked from it. That is the only reason I’m avoiding certain terms and used same gender intimacy and coition (SGIC). ****************** The NFL had its first openly SGIC claimant drafted this year #249 by the St. Louis Rams. […]
The NKJV—Just “Easier to Read,” or an Inferior Translation that, Among other Problems, is Weaker on Sodomy?
Is the NKJV simply an easier-to-read update of the King James Version, or does it alter—for the worse—the sense of the KJV? Consider, as a representative example, the following passages from the KJV: Deut. 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 1Kings 14:24 […]
Answering the TR (Textus Receptus), Perfect Preservation of Scripture Question. One More Time.
Scripture teaches presuppositionalism, and being a presuppositionalist, I look at the problem of volition versus intellect. Applying this to the doctrine of bibliology, specifically what the Bible teaches about the preservation of scripture, I think most misunderstandings are a matter of the will and not the intellect. Almost all of them. Like most other truth, […]
Thoughtful Fundamentalists?
In a classic case of poisoning the well (a logical fallacy), Kevin Bauder concludes that “thoughtful fundamentalists” will be “OK” with Clarence Sexton preaching at their FBFI conference, because he’s now got an acceptable KJO position. I’m not kidding: if you don’t agree with Bauder, you are not a “thoughtful fundamentalist,” which, of course, he is, […]
Limited Atonement or Unlimited Atonement? Calvin Was Right About the Extent Of the Atonement – everyone ought to agree with him on it
The middle point of the TULIP of Calvinism is “Limited Atonement,” usually represented as the affirmation that only the sins of the elect were laid on Christ, while the sins of the rest of the human race were not. The Bible is very clear on this question—see my article on it here. What, however, did Calvin […]
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