My Personal Observations of Israel as a Story (Part 2)
Part One Masada Roman Siege The snake trail starts from the eastern entrance of Masada and ascends 1.7 miles and 1,148 feet in elevation to the fortress located at the top of the mountain. My wife and I walked up that trail and arrived as the sun rose in the East over the Dead Sea. […]
My Personal Observations of Israel as a Story
Airport Tel Aviv I’ve been to Israel in person. My wife and I landed at the Tel Aviv Airport, the second largest city in Israel, even though you wouldn’t know Jerusalem was largest. Tel Aviv has skyscrapers and to an American it looks like a major city. Jerusalem doesn’t. It looks like nothing you’ve ever […]
The Dovetailing of Biblical Eschatology and United States Foreign Policy
Religious Influence on Government Virginia Baptists under the leadership of John Leland influenced James Madison and his writing of the Bill of Rights. They wouldn’t vote for ratification of the Constitution in Virginia without freedom of religion in a first amendment. This was a quid pro quo situation for the Baptists and Madison. After the […]
AI Friday: On Worship
I asked a different Artificial Intelligence program, Microsoft Copilot, which is a feature of Bing, about what I think about worship. It gave a shorter explanation than what AI Questions has. What I like about it is that it summarizes what I’ve written. It also reports a type of objective assessment of everything I’ve written […]
The Textual Pope Theory of Mark Ward
Hypothetical Manuscript Finds In his last video, Mark Ward again clarifies his viewpoint of a doctrine of preservation of scripture. He makes up this position out of sheer cloth. As a case study, he imagines an ancient New Testament manuscript discovered at Pompeii that helps swing textual critics’ opinion toward one word in one verse […]
What Is the Work of the Lord?
Part One New Testament Phrases The New Testament uses the following phrases these numbers of times: work of the Lord — 2 (1 Corinthians 15:58, 16:10) work of God — 2 (John 6:29, Romans 14:20) works of God — 3 (John 6:28, John 9:3, Acts 2:11) work of Christ — 1 (Philippians 2:30) work of […]
Faith in God and the Sufficiency of the Church
Pleasing God by Faith In a now very familiar verse, James writes in James 2:19: Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Someone may say that he has faith, but what is the […]
The Satanic Attack on Taking God’s Word Literally
Early in the Bible, God shows how that Satan attacks what He says. God wants men to anticipate this attack. Satan doesn’t want the audience of God’s Word to receive what God said. He tries to get the hearer to read something of his own opinion into it. Without faith, it is impossible to please […]
What Is To Separate People?
Separation Most professing Christians ignore the biblical doctrine of separation. Scripture teaches separation, but a vast majority don’t know what the Bible says about it. By far, more people know the Bible teaches unity, but separation and unity go together in God’s Word. Truly, you can’t support unity without supporting separation. In what I will […]
Answering Mark Ward’s Last Attack on Preservation of Scripture (part three)
Part One Part Two In the last portion of the Mark Ward video to which I’ve referred in this series, he gives his view of the preservation of scripture. It has similarities to Adam in the Garden of Eden after the Fall in Genesis 3:12: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, […]
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