How Does Someone Receive the Gift of Faith That Saves? (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three The Gift of Saving Faith Salvation is by faith, not by works. Faith is not a work. In Romans 4:16, Paul writes: “Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace.” Grace and works are mutually exclusive, and since salvation is by grace alone, faith […]
How Does Someone Receive the Gift of Faith That Saves? (part three)
Part One Part Two Saving Grace Appearing to All Men Paul writes to Titus in a letter, an epistle, a Gentile man converted through evangelism in the Gentile region of Crete, a pagan island in the Mediterranean Sea, in Titus 2:11: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. […]
How Does Someone Receive the Gift of Faith That Saves? (part two)
Part One Rejection of the Gift of Faith or Suppressing the Truth The rejection of God’s gift of faith, ‘biting the hand that feeds you,’ comes from ignoring or refusing general revelation from God. Even if someone does not recognize it or acknowledge it, it is rebellion against God. Romans 1:25 says that this lack […]
How Does Someone Receive the Gift of Faith That Saves?
Faith Is A Gift Two ideas seem to contradict. They don’t though. One, faith is a gift. Faith is not a work. Man is not saved by works. God gives man the faith that saves him. He doesn’t work for it. Two, even though faith is a gift, most people do not get it. God […]
What About the Phrase about Scripture, “Inspired in the Original Manuscripts”?
“Inspired in the Original Manuscripts” In the last few days, I watched on a podcast someone lecture on dispensationalism. While teaching, he used a phrase to describe scripture, “inspired in the original manuscripts.” That phrase does not sit well with me. For one, it is not itself scripture, and, two, it is not the historic […]
Wes Huff on Joe Rogan: My Take
History of Huff and Rogan Professing Christian and Christian apologist Wes Huff appeared on Joe Rogan for three hours. I believe this is the first time Rogan had anyone like Huff on his famous and popular podcast. Rogan was a fan of a man named Billy Carson. Wes Huff dominated Carson in a recent debate. […]
Two Popular Doctrine of Salvation Ditches
Maybe the road and two ditches is an overused metaphor. I would contend it’s a helpful visual. When you take a road somewhere, you don’t want to drive into a ditch. Let’s say the road is a narrow one with a ditch on either side. Just today, I dropped my wife at an airport and […]
The Microcausation and Macrocausation of the Grooming Gang Scandal in England
Grooming Apparently for fifteen or so years, certain people have sounded a warning or alarm about so-called “grooming gangs” in England. “Grooming” speaks of “sexual grooming,” essentially training children to accept rape or assault as a way of life. They would become then ready facilitators for the predilections of adult perverts. I had heard the […]
From the Work of Beza in 1598 to Modern Skepticism and the Greek New Testament
F. H. A. Scrivener showed 190 differences between his printed text, representing the underlying text of the King James Version, and that of Theodore Beza‘s printed edition in 1598. This was eighty-two years after the first printed edition of the Textus Receptus (TR) in 1516 and thirteen years before the publication of the King James […]
The Tension in Scripture Between God’s Covenant with and Chastisement of Israel
Part One Part Two Theological Tension Theological tension refers to the concept in Christian theology where seemingly contradictory truths coexist and must be held in balance without reducing their complexity. Tension acknowledges that the Bible presents multifaceted truths that, although appearing to conflict, are, in fact, complementary. Sometimes men use other terms, such as […]
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