John Piper, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and Aesthetic, Cultural, Entertainment, and Attire Consistency
What great arguments John Piper gives for avoiding television shows like Game of Thrones! For decades, we haven’t had cable, so we couldn’t flip to it or couldn’t watch it without effort, but the fictional historical period would have piqued my interest before reading of the perversity of it. Piper reads the slide toward Gomorrah […]
The Definition of Faith or Belief and Prayer
James 1:6-7 reads, 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. The Lord requires faith to receiving anything in answer to […]
Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 2
This is part 2 of this study; note part 1, which was posted last Friday. 1.) Accurate copies of the Greek and Hebrew words are inspired, since inspiration, in 2 Timothy 3:16, refers to a product. Paul instructs Timothy that the product of the written Scripture itself is both “inspired/God-breathed” and “profitable.” Neither “God-breathed” nor “profitable,” […]
Tabletalk, R. C. Sproul, and the Evangelical Foray into Ecclesiastical Separation
When I visited the Evangelical Theological Society meeting in San Francisco a few years ago, I scoured their mammoth book room for anything on separation and found none. I asked men on the panel on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism where they had anything on separation, and one of the panelists said it would be in […]
How Would You Like to Come and Teach at Bethel Christian Academy?
Our school, Bethel Christian Academy, needs an elementary school teacher. If you are reading this and you are perhaps that person or you know that person, let us know. We have a great church and a nice situation in the school. You might have a different degree, but you think you can do it, and […]
The Bible, Separation of Powers, and a Do Nothing Congress
Recently I was reading an article at RCP, entitled, 15 Most Annoying Expressions in Politics, by Carl Cannon. “Do Nothing” should have been one of the annoying expressions. Every branch of government is doing something, some of it permissible and much of it bad. “Do nothing” is political. If that branch, say the legislative branch, is […]
Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 1
Scripture teaches that the words of Scripture are inspired by God, and thus the entirety of the canonical Scriptures are inspired, 2 Timothy 3:16. God did not inspire people like Moses, Jeremiah, or Matthew; rather, the words that He gave to mankind through them are inspired. Since “inspired” means “God […]
1 Corinthians 15:3: En Protois, First in Order or First in Importance, and Ranking Doctrines
A major proof text invented for the new doctrine of essentials and non-essentials is 1 Corinthians 15:3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. The King James translators translated en protois, “first of all”—so did Tyndale and so […]
Doubt, Lack of Willingness to Believe, and Atheism
Not unlike many other people, since I was very little, I began questioning almost everything, if not out loud, in my mind. I’m still that way. Sometimes I say I must be from Missouri, though I’m not, because it’s called “the show me state.” Missouri’s U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the […]
1 John 4:1-3: The Command to “Try the spirits” and the rise of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Word of Faith Doctrine of Exorcism, part 3 of 3
John A. MacMillan, minister in the strongly continuationist or anti-cessationist Christian and Missionary Alliance, affirmed that believers have the same authority to cast out demons that the Lord Jesus has, and “all . . . demon powers . . . must yield to us.”[1] Nevertheless, he found that “there are frequent cases . . . […]