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 […]
Lack of Application of Scripture to Cultural Issues and Ecclesiastical Separation Now Haunting Conservative Evangelicals Like MacArthur
Scripture exhaustively and scrupulously furnishes and profits unto every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17). For scripture to do this, it must be applied. The Bible doesn’t say, “Thou shalt not smoke crack pipes.” The Bible does make that point, but it must be applied to do so. Scripture applies to cultural issues. God wants His […]
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 […]
The Apostle Paul’s Response to A First Century Gospel-Destroying Cancel-Culture Wokeness Plague on the Church
The Apostle Paul had woke credentials. He lists them in Philippians 3 in case anyone might wonder. No one was more Jew than he was. He took great advantage of that in Gentile cities when he visited the synagogues first. If he went to the Gentile first, his hearing with the Jews would be diminished. […]
When Black Lives Really Do Matter to Someone
Race is a social construct. The Bible doesn’t mention race, except the human race, the single Adamic race. Some have more melanin than others, so their skin is darker to varying degrees with actually very little physical difference between people. The DNA of any two human beings is 99.9% similar in content and identity. God […]
Jacoby / Ross Debate part 2, “We are Born Again In Baptism,” is now live!
The second half of my debate with Dr. Douglas Jacoby over baptism is now live! In the first half, “We are born again before baptism,” I was in the affirmative; the second half, “We are born again in baptism,” where Dr. Jacoby was in the affirmative and I was in the negative, is now also […]