Blessing and Cursing

Don’t let this post stop you from reading the previous one I just wrote, which is better and more important. Not that this one isn’t important, so … Blessing and Cursing I remember my surprise the first time I really noticed Proverbs 26:2 as I was reading … Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying [...]

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The Bible and a Closed Canon:
(Should There Only Be 66 Books?)

One of these days I’m going to have time to do justice to the series I was doing on the appearance of Paul from 1 Thessalonians 2. There’s one post on exhortation I really want to get to, but I have to have a good amount of time to write it. I got another email [...]

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The Truth Even If It Condemns Me

I don’t want to write posts like the one I just wrote without telling you what I’m about to tell you. That post discussed true and false Christians—or disciples vs. mere believers—and I don’t want you to misunderstand what I mean by disciple. I’m not going to explain it to you; I’m going to give [...]

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Water Baptism in Christian History

For those of you that read my blog, but not Christian History for Everyman, I’m just letting you know I made a page on water baptism for that site. It’s pretty comprehensive, even though it only touches on the mode of baptism by accident and that only one time.  

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The Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians: Chapter One

I started this series yesterday with an introduction to the early Christian writings. This is Ignatius’ epistle to the Ephesians, written in A.D. 107 or 116, about 50 or 60 years after Paul wrote his epistle to the Ephesians and only about 30 years after the letter to the Ephesians found in Revelation ch. two. [...]

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Can the Gates of Hell Prevail Against the Church

So the idea of Matthew 16:18 is not that the church won’t fall. The idea is that when and where the church exists, she will assail the gates of Hades and bring back the dead.

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Born-Again Bible Reading: A Thought for Discussion

Parsimony destroys the entire fundamentalist system. It rips their most important doctrines to shreds.

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Commenting on the Psalms

I love the Psalms. Sometimes I’m scared to start reading them because I can get so caught up in the message of just one Psalm. It’s amazing the truths that are laying there, just under the surface, for the person willing to dig for them and to get used to interpreting the Psalms. It’s not [...]

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Judgment

There are not many of Evangelicals who believe the Bible, even though we say we do, so I get a lot of objections to these verses.

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Balaam and Bible Interpretation

I talked about a symbolic form of interpretation described by Origen, the great 3rd century theologian from Alexandria, Egypt. But what I talked about, Britt Mooney recently put into practice.

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