God and His Gospel Preaching to Cain, Who Rejects It
Genesis 4 chronicles the beginnings for the first family after the fall of man into sin. The first couple of verses portray positives for the parents and their children. 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she […]
Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part eight)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Except a Man Be Born Again Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Someone cannot see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. At least two ideas exist here. […]
The Time In Which We Live in 2025
Eras or Epochs Many describe this era or epoch of time to be one of chaos and turmoil. It sends tremors into the present world order. The argument against an obvious shift in culture is its destabilization. What is really happening today? When you open your Bible to its last book, Revelation, you see the […]
Does Doctrine Matter?
President James Monroe on December 2, 1823 first communicated the “Monroe Doctrine” in his State of the Union address to Congress. The Monroe Doctrine viewed any foreign intervention in the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, as a potentially hostile act against the United States. One might ask Spain and Japan whether the Monroe Doctrine matters. These […]
The Historical Story of External Factors Perverting the Meaning of Church (part three)
Part One Part Two Evidence in the New Testament As you read through the New Testament, you see early attacks inside and outside of the church that correspond to what happened at that juncture of history in the world. Revelation 2 and 3 provide a good example of how churches in the first century […]
When I Tried to Do Business with China
My Story As you might know, I lived and worked in California most of my adult life (33 years). Our church, Bethel Baptist Church, which we planted in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1987, and I became a publisher, Pillar and Ground Publishing, to publish biblical and theological works. It is now a work […]
Can Restorationist Churches Be or Are They True?
This post provides a good accompaniment to the last three posts I’ve written here (one, two, and three). I’ll return to the first two of those posts, as they are the beginning of a continuing series. ************************ Successionism or Restorationism The choices are not apostolic succession or no succession of churches. Apostolic succession is bogus, […]
What Does the Apostle Paul Mean When He Says “One Body”?
The Terminology “One Body” The Apostle Paul uses the two words “one body” eleven times in his epistles. Theologians, teachers, and others have perverted the meaning of the expression, “one body,” through the years, reading into it something not there. They over complicate it to see one of their presuppositions and twist it like a […]
The Historical Story of External Factors Perverting the Meaning of Church (part two)
Part One The Part Played By Religious Persecution Under Roman auspices, Judaism persecuted the church at Jerusalem right after its beginning in the first century. Both were Jewish, the religion of Israel and the church, and the Roman Empire didn’t distinguish between the two. To Rome, the church was a mere sect of the Jewish […]
The Historical Story of External Factors Perverting the Meaning of Church
The New Testament Meaning of Church God revealed His Word, which is the special revelation of every and all of His Words by God the Spirit through human authors. Those words communicate plainly the will of God to man, including the nature of the church. The church is what scripture says it is through its […]
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