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The Deliberate, Convenient Ineptitude of Professing Christians at Applying the Lust Passages of Scripture, pt. 2
Part One Sanctification, the practical outworking of actual salvation, which surely proceeds from justification, Paul characterizes in Romans 6:12: Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Essentially the Apostle Paul is stating the expectation of the reality of true salvation in someone’s life, commanding […]
The Deliberate, Convenient Ineptitude of Professing Christians at Applying the Lust Passages of Scripture
The Bible doesn’t say what lust is. It assumes we know, because we do know. Not knowing is either blindness or feigning ignorance. Blindness or feigned ignorance won’t work in the end with God. He knows we know. People can understand and apply the passages on lust. They don’t want to give up their lust. I’m […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Twenty-Fifth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Twenty-Two Twenty-Three Twenty-Four The Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in an invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. This week marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the end for the […]
When Someone Is Said to Be Divisive
Most of the time when someone is said to be divisive, it isn’t the person who is divisive. Don’t get me wrong. Some people are divisive. But most of the time, it isn’t a person who is dividing. Stay with me. Scripture talks about divisive people. It is the heretic of Titus 3:10-11. A man […]
My Liking of Jordan Peterson Is Not Fellowship or an Endorsement of Him: Why?
Maybe every next generation is a new and troubling day. I don’t want to overestimate the degree of perversity of the present generation. However, I think we have taken a unique plunge into the abyss. You’ve perhaps heard of Moore’s law. The Wikipedia article states: The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Twenty-Fourth Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Twenty-Two Twenty-Three France was the last stop of our trip to Europe. We stayed in Montrouge, just south of Paris, right next to the Mairie de Montrouge station. On Monday, we arose to take the subway […]
When is Bad Preaching a Separating Issue?
Independent Baptist Churches are–well–independent. Just as a significant variety of belief and practice may be found in the IFB movement, so one can find a great variety in the quality of independent Baptist preaching. On one end of the spectrum, one can find careful expository preaching with strong application that leads to both a stronger […]
The Fallacy of Critical Text Apologetics with Islam: James White and Pooyan Mehrshahi
Robert Truelove interviews Pooyan Mehrshahi with a focus on the superiority or necessity of the received or ecclesiastical text position related to Muslim apologetics. Evangelical apologist and critical text advocate, James White, very often warns that apologetics with Moslems is ruined by a received text position. He states this with absolute dogmatism, while giving zero […]
The Most Common Paradigm for Apostasy As Also Related to Making Decisions and Having Discernment
“Apostate” and “apostasy” are technical terms not found in the Bible, but they are in common use through church history to describe turning from the faith to various degrees. In general, it is viewed as complete turning from the faith, as done by an unsaved person and proving that he is not saved (1 John […]
The Former Pharisee, the Apostle Paul, the Theologian of Separation
“Pharisee” means “separatist.” BDAG, the foremost lexicon of the Greek New Testament, says right at the beginning of the definition: The Semitic words mean ‘the separated ones, separatists’. The Pharisees were separatists. Paul had been a Pharisee. Upon conversion, Paul was no longer a Pharisee. He left Pharisaism. So does that mean he wasn’t a […]
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