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Are All Believers Disciples? Part 2
Disciples are never distinguished from the regenerate who are at a lower plane, but are regularly distinguished from hell-bound lost people. Disciples are contrasted with publicans and sinners (Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17) from perishing multitudes (Matthew 9:35-38; Luke 19:36-38) and from the persecuting ungodly, (Matthew 10:22-27). Disciples are those who have been given spiritual truth […]
Interpreting Violence
How is that the murderer in the Fort Hood massacre wasn’t influenced to kill by Islam, exposed to heavy dosages every day and uttering an Islamic chant as he shot his victims, but the murderer in the Tucson, Arizona massacre was influenced to kill by a political poster he had never claimed to see?
Are All Believers Disciples? part 1
Are All Believers Disciples? Some affirm that only certain believers are disciples. Discipleship is said to be a status that certain believers chose to enter into at some point after their conversion, so that, within the larger class of believers, a smaller, elite group of believers are disciples. Others affirm that, while there are such […]
The Necessity of Poetry in the Praise of God
Growing up, I didn’t like poetry. I thought that a person should just say what he meant in a simple sentence that anyone could understand. “Get to your point,” I felt. When in college, I minored in speech and took two semesters of oral interpretation. The first semester was all poetry. We memorized and performed […]
Jerome’s Preface to the Canonical Epistles–Ancient Evidence for 1 John 5:7
The preface below, which, besides being on my website, does not appear to have been available easily in English, was translated, by my request, by Thomas Caldwell, S. J. of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The translation comes from the Codex Fuldensis (c. A. D. 541-546), one of the earliest copies of the Vulgate. This […]
The King James Version and the Doctrine of Separation
The Bible version issue will always cause division. Should it? Should believers separate from one another over what English (or Spanish) translation of the Bible they use? The answers to these questions have been percolating for awhile among fundamentalists. Certain recent events have caused the temperature to rise and some bubbling on the surface. Northland […]
Join Me in the Campaign against BABEL: Bigotry Against the Bible Executed Legally
We the people must take the offensive against the Bigotry Against the Bible that is being Executed on the citizens of the United States Legally by its government, all three branches, legislative, judicial, and executive. We’ve got the constitution, history, and, of course, God and the Bible on our side. The former don’t matter so […]
The Apostle Paul and His View of Unity and “Non-Essentials”
Unity is the subject du jour of evangelicalism and fundamentalism. If you want to move to the head of the line, you’ve got to push and shove to get in the front on unity today. Important to call your group “Together” or “United” or “Coalition.” Like love has been hijacked by syrupy sentimentality, unity has […]
The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism, part 4
II. Application “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). This record of the final command of the Lord to His church is not an option. While it is certainly a church command, doubtless the imperative of reaching every creature falls upon all […]
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