Good Organizational Principles Take A Look At Infant Baptism
GOOD ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES TAKE A LOOK AT INFANT BAPTISM It may seem strange to evaluate a religious practice by looking at it from a secular viewpoint. But GOD’s idea of “religion” is much more inclusive than the picture which most of us have. And,…
You may well need to yet receive the Holy Spirit
Is the Holy Spirit WITH you, or IN you? “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him…
God CAN become your friend
DO YOU “KNOW” JESUS? “7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered…
God Describes His Version of Election AFTER He Has Captured Us!
God Describes His Version of Election AFTER He Has Captured Us! Christians have been debating “Predestination or Free Will” probably starting the week after Paul wrote Romans 8-9! It probably raises more contention than any other topic Christians pick to argue about. In…
“Predestination” or “Free Will”?
Regarding “predestination” versus “free will”: I am 81 years old, and have been studying both the Scriptures and Church history rather intensely for a bit over 60 years now. One of the less attractive features of our human nature that I have observed is…
Lethal Self-defense?
I have been in a discussion with some serious Christians, who think it is proper for them to use lethal means to defend themselves against those who seek to do them harm. Logically that would require them to take the same action when your…
The Intelligence of God
The Intelligence of God According to the evolutionary, god-less world: the universe just “happened” into its current form, because of pre-existing agents of change: nuclear reactions, gravity, movement of air and water, freezing/thawing, chemical attraction and repulsion, and other factors. However, if the universe…
The Experiential Nature of Apostolic Christianity
The Experiential Nature of Apostolic Christianity If you read through the New Testament carefully, it becomes obvious that what Jesus brought to the earth contains many specific things to believe, to do, to not do, and attitudes to have when believing and doing them….
ELECTION FERVOR MOUNTING? AVOID THE CONSTANTINIAN HOPE!
ELECTION FERVOR MOUNTING? AVOID THE CONSTANTINIAN HOPE! This coming mid-term election seems to be one of the most important in the history of this nation. I have lived through fifteen national and thirty mid-term elections, and have never known one whose outcome portends such…
The Quartodeciman Controversy OR How Controversies Should NOT Be Resolved!
I belong to an academic organization (Academia.org) that presents its members’ papers for discussion. I have occasionally been invited to take part in those discussions. I just finished responding to a gentleman’s paper about the so-called “Quartodeciman Controversy.” This was among the earlier controversies…
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