The Moral Nature of God (Part 4)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 God’s Goodness Imagine a deer running through the woods at the very time a dead tree falls, trapping the deer helplessly alone. The deer starves to death in solitary confusion. An agnostic might ask and say, “If there is an all powerful, good God, why or how […]
The Moral Nature of God (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 Divine Origination of Morality Having established the moral nature of God guiding and constraining the heavens and the earth, I want to return to certain moral dilemmas posed by agnostics or atheists. God defines the moral existence of living things. They fit into His hierarchy of value. God oversees and […]
The Moral Nature of God (Part 2)
Part 1 Heaven and Earth Necessitate a Cause God is holy. God is good. He is righteous. He is love and more. Moral attributes are the essence of God. We know that the heavens and the earth have a beginning. Since they do, they must have a cause. The cause of the heavens and the […]
Wes Huff on Joe Rogan: The Dead Sea Isaiah Scroll and the Hebrew Masoretic Text
Part One Huff, O’Connor, and Rogan Popular agnostic or atheist Alex O’Connor, not as popular as Joe Rogan but more than everyone else in this story, has caught onto an error made by evangelical apologist Wes Huff on Rogan’s show. O’Connor sees this as very important in a greater scheme of things. He also targets […]
The Moral Nature of God
In recent weeks, I have meditated and continue to meditate upon the moral nature of God. As a reader, especially some of you, you might say, “You, the moral nature of God?!?! You’re not moral!” I agree. When you meditate on the moral nature of God, it doesn’t result in thinking you’re moral. Just the […]
Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part six)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five When someone gets toward the end of preaching the gospel, he explains belief. God saves those who believe in Jesus Christ. All over the internet and then on paper churches do not say, believe in Jesus Christ, something that simple. No, […]
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 […]
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