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Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Two)
Part One As established in the New Testament, “the world” means not mere physical matter but an ordered moral system in active rebellion against the Creator, a rival kingdom animated by “the spirit of the age.” True salvation, according to the apostolic witness, produces an incongruity with that system. The saved do not love the […]
Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue
What Is “The World”? Biblical Christianity, the only Christianity, is in complete incongruity with the “world,” what scripture shows is the world system or the spirit of the age. BDAG, the foremost lexicon of the New Testament, defines the Greek word translated “world,” kosmos, based upon its usage in all ancient Greek literature: “the sum […]
Are Worldly Pleasures A Necessary Sacrifice For or Unto Salvation?
The Lord Jesus Christ told stories, called “parables.” In one of a later of those in Matthew 22, Jesus uses the story of a certain king and the marriage of his son. The “certain king” is God the Father and “his son” is God the Son, Jesus. The point of the story revolves around those […]
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