Archive for July 2016
Knowing God Deeply
True spiritual wisdom is to believe what God says above our human learning, wisdom, and thus pursue His wisdom so that we may truly be wise. The first thought that should come to our minds when someone brings something up about a topic is, what does the Bible say? We may not know, but we…
Read MoreThey Say Eternal Punishment is Cruel
Some propose that it is unusually cruel of God to punish man for eternity, regardless of what man did. This perspective is erroneous for four reasons. First, it is based on an inadequate view of the heinousness of sin. Because man is sinful, he is utterly incapable of apprehending or appreciating the sinfulness of sin.…
Read MoreThink About IT: When a Christian Is NOT a Christian
Being a Christian does not mean one is believed to be a Christian. The most important thing is that one knows he is a Christian, and the second is that others know that. One may know he is a Christian because of Romans 10:9-10, but the world knows it by whether Christians love one another.…
Read MoreGrace Enablements
Include but are not limited to: God’s salvific love for all (John 3:16), God’s manifestation of His power so that all may know He is the Sovereign (Isa 45:21–22) and Creator (Rom 1:18–20), which assures that everyone has opportunity to know about Him. Christ paying for all sins (Luke 22:20;[1] John 1:29), Christ satisfying the…
Read MoreCompatible and Libertarian Freedom
A Comparison of Calvinism’s compatible view of moral freedom and Extensivism’s libertarian freedom In order to understand the actual contrast between Calvinism’s view of the nature of God, His sovereign rule over His creation, and His salvation plan, with that of Extensivism’s view of the same, one must understand the two position’s vastly different views…
Read MoreThe Quest of Faithful Shepherds
Maturing and equipping involves developing new thinking until we “bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5), and those thoughts are manifested in our speech, motivations, goals, ethics, etc. We continually work in order to transform spiritual infants into mature followers of Christ, thereby empowering them to have victory over the…
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