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Who is God? Bible study #2
Following Bible study #1 on the character of Scripture as inspired and preserved, Bible study #2, on the most important Being, covers the nature of God, discussing His incommunicable attributes such as omnipotence, self-existence, His character as a Spirit, and so on, as well as communicable attributes such as justice, love, holiness, etc. The meaning […]
Biblical Preservation and Canonicity: Bible study 1B
Years ago, as a member of Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, I was introduced to the Scriptural pattern of doing evangelistic Bible studies with the lost as well as simply preaching the gospel to them at their doors. There are a number of good evangelistic Bible studies that have been written; the ones available here are in use in a number […]
King Jesus, the Least of the Commandments, and the Destructive Essential/Non-Essential Doctrine
In the flow of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, He preaches the requirement for entrance into His kingdom (5:1-12) and then the present identity on the earth of its citizens, salt and light (5:13-16). Salt presents the negative identity of influence against decay or corruption (5:13). Light presents the positive identity of […]
Test Your Theological Knowledge!
How is your theological knowledge? If you would like to find out, the: Theological Placement Exam (click on the link) is a useful test. I do not endorse Credo House, which produced the test, because of its new evangelical character and compromise to the point where it will produce material by “evangelicals” who are willing to […]
Baptism Debate Questions Answered: The Jacoby / Ross debate questions we ran out of time before answering, part 2 of 2
In my debate with Dr. Douglas Jacoby on the topic of whether faith before baptism is the moment of the new birth (I argued yes, he argued no) or baptism after faith is the moment of the new birth (I argued no, he argued yes), we had a question and answer session at the end of […]
The Religion of Social Justice And Its Infiltration of Churches
For my entire lifetime, liberal theology has presented an alternative to the biblical story. Man arises progressively through naturalistic origins. The Christian story is superstition, proceeding from mythology in various cultures with hopes of explaining the past and the present. Instead of taking the Bible literally, use it as an allegory, a source of archetypes […]
Baptism Debate Questions Answered: The Jacoby / Ross debate questions we ran out of time before answering, part 1 of 2
In my recent debate with Dr. Douglas Jacoby on the topic of whether faith before baptism is the moment of the new birth (I argued yes, he argued no) or baptism after faith is the moment of the new birth (I argued no, he argued yes), we had a question and answer session at the […]
Why David’s Life Would Matter
The background of Psalm 30, written by King David, was his numbering of Israel. 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 mention the event. God offered David his choice of punishments: three years of famine, three months of war with Israel’s enemies, or three days of pestilence. David chose pestilence. About 70,000 people died in […]
Contemporary Indications of the Reprobate Mind
Where I live at this moment has the fifth busiest traffic in the country on Highway 80, headed toward what is called the MacArthur Maze. During coronavirus, it’s been different, but before March 2020, traffic would come to a complete standstill because people would turn to look at an accident. The same principle applies as […]
Eternal security debate: Douglas Jacoby & Thomas Ross, now live!
As regular readers of this blog likely know, I had the privilege of engaging in a two-part debate with Dr. Douglas Jacoby, a minister in the denomination that calls itself the “church of Christ” and was started by Alexander Campbell and his associates in the 1800s, last month over the topic of whether baptism is […]
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