The Wrath of God
Our church practices a non-age-segregated Sunday School. We start at 9:45am with a song. By the way, I recommend The Trinity Hymnal, Baptist Edition, as the closest hymnal to Scriptural worship as there is. I’ll blog separately again on that sometime. We sing out of that. Then we meet for fifteen minutes in small groups […]
Further Debate Fodder: Revelation 22:18, 19, the Book of Life, and the Holy City
A major argument against eternal security is Revelation 22:18, 19 and Mr. Hafley used this during the debate. It didn’t turn out well for him because the passage doesn’t teach that someone can lose his salvation. Revelation 22:18, 19 reads: “18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of […]
More on the Debate: The Big If
One COC man wrote me to say that Mr. Hafley had good arguments that I avoided by using “original language arguments.” That made me smile. The Bible was witten in Hebrew and Greek. When I made an argument using the original languages, I wasn’t making anything other than a Bible argument. What it says in […]
Perspective
In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, Solomon illustrates vanity with the rising and setting of the sun. In Lamentations, Jeremiah sees the same event and writes, “Great is thy faithfulness.” They both saw the same scene with two contradictory reactions. One has the horizontal view and the other vertical. When I looked down at Carlos […]
Church Member, Friend, Dies
One of our men died tonight. I was with him, his wife, and son and Jun and Sonia Balatbat in the emergency room. Carlos Lalisan. Carlos and his family came to our church 16 years ago and have been faithful members, all three of his children graduating from Bethel Christian Academy. This last summer, his […]
What Was I Supposed to Do?
It gets to be a little much. You know what a humble Baptist is to a COC member? On his back with a COC shoe on his neck. Humility isn’t timidly admitting that the false prophet is right. I’ve been getting these letters from COC people telling me that it was a different debate than […]
How the Arguments Hashed Out
Here is a chart with the texts of his arguments and then mine. His passages are on the left and mine on the right after the dashes. These are just the arguments and whether they were answered. This does not deal with how poor his arguments were, so poor that they shouldn’t really even be […]
The Story of the Debate 2: Winners and Losers
I want everyone here to know that I received two comments from a COC “evangelist” from Alameda, who actually did the video taping of the debate. He hosted last year’s Ross/Hafley debate. I rejected his comments, but I’m considering allowing them from him in the future. I didn’t want to argue with him about his […]
The Story of the Debate 1: An Empty Cup
I want to be gracious. I’m saying that because I want you to know. I am happy, yes, but I want people to know that I want to be gracious. Mr. Hafley does the best he can for someone who believes someone can lose his salvation. At the end, I honestly felt sorry for him […]
Over
Well, the fat lady sang, but I’m going to have to give you the big scoop tomorrow, Lord-willing. What I can say is—Yes! It went very well. Very, very well. I’ll tell you what and why tomorrow. Thanks for praying, because the message did get out. You can rest assured that the Bible does teach […]