If Being Good Can Not Save a Soul

If being good, or righteous, can not save a soul then Solomon was a dreamer for expecting what became known as the Jewish Hope of Righteousness, which is the Resurrection of the Righteous: Ill-gotten gains do not profit, but righteousness…

What [the] Hell?

Ed Christian, Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, shows how words about Hell and eternal punishment are misunderstood. This presentation was given at an Evangelical Theological Society annual conference in 2001. The topic for the conference was Defining…

The Monster God of Calvinism

Christians get into endless debates about free will, predestination, and once-saved-always-saved, get lost in the complexity of it all, and don’t even see the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the room. I feel a need to expose one of the…

Water Baptism is Not Commanded

Alright, let’s put this water baptism baby to rest. Water baptism was a Jewish tradition. Nothing more, nothing less. For some it was a messianic initiation rite they would do to publicly proclaim their allegiance to a messiah, of which…