Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. (Ps. 51:1) The King [of Nineveh] said, “Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their…
Category: Theology
Did the Lamb Sacrifice Save the Jew?
If I led a group of believers and I told you we were practicing ancient Jewish rituals such as lamb sacrifices you might have one or more of the following reactions: “Why on earth would you be doing that?” Or,…
Loyalty to “God’s Chosen People” Does Not Mean Running Palestinians Into the Ground
What some of my Christians friends believe to be loyalty to “God’s Chosen People”, many of us Christians see as a cruel trashing of everything we believe Jesus stood for. The comments from Christians to Pres. Trump’s tweet about withholding…
Salvation by Being Good
Salvation by works? Salvation by faith? Who’s right, Catholics or Evangelicals? Neither one. We are judged by our conduct and we are saved by not being wicked, according to the Bible. This may sound like “Salvation by Works” but it’s…
Good People Without Faith Are Not Self-Righteous
No one is good enough for God, they say. Martin Luther put it emphatically: “The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man is the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to…
Were Jesus and His Apostles Mistaken About Jesus’ Soon Return?
It’s hard to imagine Evangelicals saying that Jesus and his apostles were wrong about one of the most important doctrines of the church but that’s exactly what many believe about the return of Christ. Peter, James, John, Paul, the writer…
Wrong Assumptions About the End Times
Hal Lindsey’s book The Late Great Planet Earth popularized the idea that mankind’s future is all laid out in the prophetic portions of the Bible. This is called Futerism, and for many of us Christians it’s the only paradigm we…
$100 to the First Person to Demonstrate the Early Church was Trinitarian
If you believe the doctrine was taught in the church from the beginning what is your proof? I’ve been hearing a lot of people lately who are knowledgeable about church history saying that the doctrine of the Trinity was what…
The LOGOS of John 1:1 – First a Plan, Then a Person
“In the beginning was the Logos…and the Logos was made flesh.” (Jn. 1:1,14) The Gospel of John starts out by telling us that the Logos became the person of Jesus Christ. But was the Logos a person before that? In the beginning, was…
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. The topic for the conference was about the boundaries…