James White-Thomas Ross Debate Review 6: LXX & Latin Vulgate

It was a blessing to debate James White on the King James Version / Textus Receptus vs. the Legacy Standard Bible / Nestle-Aland text.  The debate when well.  I have been continuing to add additional debate review videos.  Dr. White claimed that the KJV translators, had they been alive today, would have been completely against […]

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Shaping a Jesus In Your Own Image and then Believing in Him for Salvation

Contrasting Christianity Have you talked in public to an evangelical woman with a cross hanging down into her revealed cleavage?  You see the cross juxtapositioned with the other as a backdrop.  Not a fit, is it?  Maybe you, like me, wonder about the vast differences in professing Christianity.  They both claim to believe in Jesus […]

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The Law Enhances, Does Not Conflict, With Grace

Relationship Between the Law and Grace or Faith In Galatians, the Apostle Paul argues for salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.  He opposes the alternative, adding even one work to grace.  Paul provides several arguments in Galatians 3 for the churches of Galatia to combat corruption of a true gospel. To […]

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Calvinism, Unconditional Election and Baptismal Regeneration

Did you know that there is a connection between the heresy of the baptismal regeneration of infants and unconditional election and reprobation in Calvinism?  In the chapter “Calvinism is Augstinianism,” by Kenneth Wilson, in the book Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique, ed. David L. Allen & Steve W. Lemke (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2022), […]

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An Alcohol Story

A Man Questions Me about Alcohol Restaurant Wants to Serve Alcohol Our church meets in a small town right across the street from a new and popular Mexican restaurant.  My wife and I moved to Southern Indiana on February 23, 2023 to evangelize a twenty five minute radius with 70,000 people.  We want to build […]

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The Destructive Future of Vengeance

Vengeance in the Old Testament The end of First Samuel and the beginning of Second recounts the transition between the reigns of Saul and David.  The reign of Saul did not go well.  It started disintegrating early for the simple reason that Saul wouldn’t listen to God. The anointing of David as the new king […]

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Creationism & KJV: James White / Thomas Ross Debate Review 5

Should creationists, advocates of young-earth creationism, use the King James Version? Dr. Henry Morris certainly thought so. When I recently debated James White on the preservation of Scripture, Dr. White claimed that the KJV translators, had they been alive today, would have been “completely” on his side in our debate, standing for modern Bible versions […]

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Application in the Story of the Rift Between Paul and Barnabas, Starting in Acts 15:35-41

Acts 15:35-41:  Barnabas and Paul The Jerusalem and Antioch churches settled a dispute in Acts 15.  After that, a rift occurred between long time fellow laborers.  Here is the text (verses 35-41): 35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. 36 And some […]

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Prosecutorial Misconduct, Mistrial, and Dismissal of Charges

I heard someone say recently and smartly, “There are repercussions for telling the truth, but they are never worse than not telling the truth.”  It is tough to watch on and see the lies pile up in the United States and across the world.  The worst of the lies is that God is not in […]

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Ruth 3:15: “he” or “she” went into the city? 1611 & 1769 KJV

Ruth 3:15, in the widely-used 1769 revision of the King James Bible, reads: “Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.” However, the 1611 edition of the […]

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