Posted in Impossible Verses?, Obedience to Christ, sin, truth, Victor's Articles on August 13th, 2009 6 Comments »
Matthew 5:48 – “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Surely Jesus doesn’t mean “don’t ever make a mistake or sin” does he? How could this be? Doesn’t he know “nobody’s perfect?” What is Jesus saying here? Is this an impossible verse?
Posted in Impossible Verses?, truth, Victor's Articles on August 11th, 2009 5 Comments »
Luke 14:33 – “So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.”
Surely Jesus doesn’t really mean “give up all your stuff” does he? How could this be? He probably just means be willing to give up all your possessions. But then again, that’s not what he said. What is Jesus saying here? Is this an impossible verse?
Posted in Impossible Verses?, Prayer, truth, Victor's Articles on August 10th, 2009 6 Comments »
1 Thessalonians 5:17 – pray without ceasing
Surely Paul doesn’t mean “pray and don’t ever stop” does he? How could this be? What is Paul saying here? Is this an impossible verse?
Posted in Apologetics, Death is Sleep, Ron's Articles, truth on August 9th, 2009 47 Comments »
I ran across another good ol’ Conditional Immortality paper, so I thought why not keep the theme of my post from last week going? However since this paper has a natural break with two main areas, I will separate it into two posts – a Part I and a Part II. Here’s Part I.
Do the Saints Go to Heaven When They Die?
Posted in Age to Come, Death is Sleep, Doctrine, hell, Obedience to Christ, Parousia, Resurrection, Ron's Articles, Satan, truth on August 1st, 2009 17 Comments »
In Gen. 3:1, Satan speaks for the first time in the scriptures. He asks Eve (by the Figure Erotesis for emphasis), “Yea, hath God said,” or “Can it be that God hath said…?” In Gen. 3:4, Satan’s second utterance, we read, “And the serpent said unto the woman, ‘Ye shall not surely die’… “ This is a plain contradiction of God’s Word in Gen. 2:17. As one has said long ago, “This has become the foundation of spiritism and traditional belief as to death.”
Posted in truth, Victor's Articles on July 14th, 2009 71 Comments »
What do you think about this comment by NT Wright? He speaks to a point made by John Piper about what one needs to really understand the New Testament.
Some will say that all we need is the Bible and others will say that we need to have vast amounts of information from other external sources as well in order to understand the Bible. Some will say not to even consult a dictionary and others will say that without a good knowledge of Hebrew and Greek and the top commentaries you’re fooling yourself.
Posted in monotheism, truth on May 10th, 2009 258 Comments »
by Anthony Buzzard, article taken from focusonthekingdom.org
One of our human frailties is our inability to hear the text of Scripture. More precisely, we have difficulty in hearing what the Bible says when we have been propagandized into a different opinion. We then start with a fixed notion and enter a kind of “denial” when we read verses which obviously conflict with our belief. The classic example is this:
While churches and ministries unite under the conviction that “there is One God existing eternally in three Persons,” Paul thought otherwise. It is surprising that Bible readers do not hear the difference between
Posted in Age to Come, Death is Sleep, hell, Kingdom of God, Messiah Jesus, Ron's Articles, Salvation, truth on May 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
And at long last (sorry for the delay), here’s the conclusion of Homer D. Baxter’s – The Two Adams.
FYI – Here’s direct links to the other three:
While the first Adam died and returned to dust because of his disobedience (Gen 3:19), the second Adam sits on the right hand of God fulfilling his official capacity as High Priest and Mediator. He is the link between a righteous God and sinful mankind; mediating in man’s behalf; settling the differences between man and his Creator. When this priestly reign ends, which is better know as the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus will deliver it up to God (1 Cor. 15:24) and will assume his right to become King of Kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16).
Posted in Age to Come, cross, Death is Sleep, Holy Spirit, Messiah Jesus, Obedience to Christ, Resurrection, Ron's Articles, Salvation, The Cross of Christ, truth on April 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s part THREE of the four part booklet – The Two Adams, by Homer D. Baxter. This is the first half of Part II – with the last half of it (or the final quarter) to come next week. A fitting topic (The SECOND Adam) to present here this weekend where we celebrate the Resurrection of our Messiah!
Posted in evangelism, Messiah Jesus, Ron's Articles, Testimony, truth on March 14th, 2009 3 Comments »
It has been said (probably right here on this blog) that the Bible is the story of TWO MEN. Another way of saying this is that Scripture tells the story of TWO ADAMS. Which reminds me, I have a 30-40 year old booklet from a former old-school Advent Christian preacher on this subject that I one day need to transcribe into the digital realm. Maybe I’ll get to that in the future and post it here. But for now, there is a very nice “web” paper on this same subject from the folks over at biblicalunitarian.com entitled “Christianity 101: Two Adams“.