Why Do People Have Such A Low View of the Law?
The Internal Revenue Code alone has 3.4 million words and 7,500 pages. There are 20,000 laws governing just the use and ownership of guns. I can keep going. Now, that is intrusive. That is onerous. That is prohibitive. That is repressive. That is burdensome. That is overwhelming. I should hate the laws of the United […]
The Parable of the Prodigal Son Could Be Titled “Two Sons Who Both Hated Their Father”
Jesus tells three parables in Luke 15, all of which reveal the love of God the Father for the lost, unlike the religious leaders in Israel. He searches for them like a lost coin, first parable, lost sheep, second, and lost son, third. That states the correct view of God the Father and, therefore, also […]
Life’s Spontaneous Origin: How Likely Is It?
Evolutionists claim that the universe is billions of years old, and that supplies plenty of time for life itself, and all living beings afterwards, to evolve. How likely is the spontaneous origin of life from non-life? It is approximately one in 10112,500(source). That means that it is incomprehensibly more likely that you will win the jackpot […]
What Does This Mean? “He That Feareth Is Not Made Perfect in Love” (1 John 4:18b)
Part One Today many millennial professing Christians have made themselves prey to superficial and self-help style preaching in postmodern evangelical churches. They are not set in these churches by God, but they’ve searched them for agreement with a world of their own imagination. The look or imagery is the pastor on a dark stage in […]
What Is Perfect Love and the Fear That It Casts Out in 1 John 4:18?
You can find a pretty horrific description of the pain and suffering of the coronavirus. You can read the mounting deaths and see the graph of the steep upward curve of infections. You can hear about the precipitous drop in employment and your retirement investment. You could be afraid because of such information. The Apostle […]
Come to Israel! Join a Bible-Lands Tour in Early 2021
Unless the Rapture happens first, there should be relatively normal life on earth once the COVID-19 scare has passed (and you are tired of sitting at home wondering if you are going to get sick.) As has been mentioned earlier on this blog, we are planning to move to the Bay Area to assist Bethel […]
The Rejection of the Man of Sorrows
Philip Paul Bliss was a revivalist hymn writer in the mid 19th century, who in 1875 penned among others the well-known, “Hallelujah, What a Savior!”, the first line of which reads: Man of Sorrows! what a name for the Son of God, who came ruined sinners to reclaim. “Man of sorrows” originates from Isaiah 53:3 […]
Proportion: Not Celebrating Superficial, Trivial Things Like They Are High Value
When Jesus said, repeating Old Testament law (Ex 21:24), eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth (Matt 5:48), some might call that overdoing or extreme. They mock scripture. In fact, God was modifying the typical overreaction to personal wrong. If someone takes an eye, you don’t get to take a head. The response […]
Bible Contradictions? Christ’s Line, Resurrection, Ascension & Paul’s Conversion; Shabir Ally’s Arguments in the Shabir Ally-Thomas Ross debate
During my debate with Shabir Ally over the topic “The New Testament Picture of Jesus: Is it Accurate?” Dr. Ally made a number of claims about the Bible being irreconcilably contradictory and, therefore, not being God’s Word. He argued that the genealogy in Matthew 1 was inaccurate because it left out three names and had the […]
Tests for the Practice of the Doctrine of Separation for Fundamentalism
Sam Horn, Executive Vice President for Enrollment and Ministerial Advancement, Dean of the School of Religion and the Seminary at Bob Jones University, moves to head John MacArthur’s Master’s Seminary. Steve Pettit, president of BJU, makes a positive public statement about it. He meets with John MacArthur and speaks well of it. Maybe Bob Jones has […]
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