If You Want to Lose Men in and from a Church
Statistics and Studies As of June 2022, thirty-six percent of women said they attended church the last Sunday, but only twenty-four percent of men did (Gallup, 2021). Those percentages are not the same everywhere. Statistics or studies show that men are less religious in gender-equal countries. The Pew Research Center says that women have more […]
AI Answers: Is Kent Brandenburg a Courteous Theologian, Preacher, and Person?
Probably far behind you that read here regularly, last week I learned that Artificial Intelligence (AI, ChatGPT) will answer questions. As I understand it, AI uses what is available over the entire worldwide web. It can do this very quickly and write a decent, sometimes very good, essay. What AI can do that is difficult […]
The Biggest Problem Presupposition for Modern Versions
In a short minute and a half presentation Dan Wallace gives the biggest problem presupposition for modern versions. Some hearing it will think it’s wonderful, because they stopped judging based on biblical presuppositions. This clip is only a minute and a half, so easy to digest. He starts with debunking some crazy conspiracy theories I’ve […]
Optimistic Premillennialism
Versus Postmillennialism Postmillennialism, an eschatological position or framework, seems to be making a comeback. When I say that, I still think a relatively small minority of professing Christians are postmillennial. The events of the twentieth century, namely two world wars, killed postmillennialism with most people. However, partly because of renewed popularity of Calvinism and reformed […]
“Judge Not”: What’s It Saying?
The Context of Matthew 7:1 Matthew chapter seven starts with a very short, memorable command in the midst of a long sermon by Jesus: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” How does that fit into His message? People turn it into a statement against judgment or judgmentalism. But that is not what He was […]
The Greek Text Underlying the NKJV Is Different Than the KJV
Another Video from Mark Ward Mark Ward made another video about the underlying text of the NKJV, differing with the KJV. He brought back the blog discussion he, some of his followers, and I had (see this, this, and this) in an original assertion that King James users make this claim, but they give zero […]
Baptist History and the Points of Calvinism
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Baptists, Calvinistic or Arminian? In the last post of this series, I wrote that John T. Christian said in his book on The History of Baptists, that Baptists were more Calvinistic than Arminian. When I wrote that or referenced him, […]
A New Alternative List to the Points of Calvinism (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four The last point of Calvinism is 5. PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS He That Overcometh That language sounds right to me, but especially like “total depravity,” the first point, it depends on how one explains it. Why it seems good is because of certain scriptural […]
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