So why doesn’t God want another young bull or even a single male goat from the Israelites? There’s actually two reasons … but we modern Christians have adopted one particular error that stops us from noticing one of those reasons.
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I’m not a believer in blind faith. I think blind faith is stupid and dangerous.
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The impossible Christian life is the only one that can be lived because it is the only one God gives grace for.
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This is a response I just sent to someone. There’s nothing personal in it, so I wanted to post this here. I hope there’s something helpful in it:
The thing that helped me most with baptism was comparing it to the sinner’s prayer, something I believe Peter does in 1 Peter 3:21. Peter says baptism now [...]
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This morning in Bible study a few of us were looking at Galatians 2. Obviously, as we go further in Galatians, we need a good working definition of justification, and we went after that.
The Greek word justify is just the word righteous used as a verb. Thus to justify is to make righteous.
Really, though, that [...]
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This isn’t condemnation. This is pleasing God. This is finding God’s will. And if we call ourselves Christians, then nothing else ought to matter to us.
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I just wrote a long post on works. It’s long because I took the time to try to answer some concerns that honest, God-fearing modern Christians have about the things I say about works (which I got from the Scriptures and the apostles’ churches).
Another post that aroused concerns was my post on the atonement. In [...]
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I am saying that the same effort to walk in the light and walk by the Spirit that allows you to experience continual forgiveness and the the righteousness of Christ will also produce practical, visible righteousness in your life.
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This morning two things brought up the issue of what the Gospel is.
Note: I reproduced this at Christian History for Everyman, where I could include sidebars with quotes from early Christian writings showing you that this is what the apostles’ churches taught as well.
One, I am a member of Tangle, a Christian version of [...]
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I’d like to direct those of you who read this to the commentary section of my Rest of the Old, Old Story site. I’m going to start updating it, beginning with the things found in today’s blog on Jeremiah 6.
Why should you read a commentary put together by me (especially one as sparse as is [...]
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