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Here’s a real shocker, not that anyone should care, but after all these years, I have abandoned my faith in Christ. True, life has been unbearable for me over the last 13 or so years. You might even say unfair. There has not been one day over this time that I haven’t prayed that God would allow...

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Some time ago, quite a while ago if I recall, I sent out an article on Polycarp, a famous martyr of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, he is far from the only martyr in history. The dark, evil pages of Church history are actually filled with flickering lights, those who have endured the...

Some time ago, quite a while ago if I recall, I sent out an article on Polycarp, a famous martyr of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, he is far from the only martyr in history. The dark, evil pages of Church history are actually filled with flickering lights, those who have endured the...

Below is a bit of history that Eusebius has reproduced for the benefit of other Christians. For those unfamiliar with Eusebius, he was a church historian who recorded the following words in 340 AD. (Eusebius had hoped that his labors would be of benefit to us.... I think we can safely conclude...

This verse deserves about a week or two of comments but we don’t have that long. Let me give you the skinny of it: (Please pardon my language, my analogies if you will.) The three members of the Godhead (the Trinity), having decided to create angels and mankind, needed to assume different ROLES...

This is a bit long, most will not read this, but it posted it for the few who will. I offered the following paraphrase for GJohn 1:1 in my previous post: “In the beginning, a beginning that precedes the creation of all things, the Word was already in existence, and hence, by virtue of existing...

What most do not realize is that from the time Jerome translated the New Testament into Latin in the fourth century to the time of the KJV, there was an unbroken record of apostasia being translated “departing.” To our knowledge, no one in the early church and up to the early seventeenth century...

There is nothing new in this brief post. I am just looking for how non Pre-Tribbers arrive at the meaning of APOSTASIA. A point of linguistics can help us better understand the noun APOSTASIA. The noun takes its meaning/usage from the verb. In this case, the cognate verb is AFISTHMI...

I want to clarify something I have found when studying the Judgment Seat of Christ. Most, if not all, commentators state that the BEMA seat was a raised platform at the Olympic Games where the winners were give their rewards for winning a contest by Judges. I just want to point out that there...

Below is a dramatic account of a man named Polycarp, a friend of the Apostle John himself. On the fateful day described below (somewhere near the year 150 AD), Polycarp was asked to renounce Christ in exchange for his life. Unmoved by the threat of death, Polycarp, having received his...

A rose by any other name is still a rose. (What’s in a name?) The following verses appear in rapid succession in the gospel of Matthew. The events are just moments apart. The scene is a familiar one. Notice carefully how the two groups (Roman soldiers and religious Jewish leaders) refer to...

One of the most famous events in ancient history was the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 BC. Some 200 years later, a Roman historian named Dion Cassius, described the funeral that followed. Of particular interest was this sentence he penned: “You loved him as...

More than two thousand years ago, a blacksmith was forging and shaping some iron with his anvil and hammer. It was a father and son business, not that that mattered. One afternoon, while whacking away on some hot iron that was being fashioned into a sword, the son placed the heated end of...

I have noticed a few people out here making a mistake in reading/understanding a Greek Lexicon. All Greek Lexica are written in the same manner. Let me briefly explain what the "definitions" mean. Using APOSTASIA as an example, here is what it means... APOSTASIA has several definitions/usages...

It could have happened, right? We are told in the Bible of the many temptations that Jesus faced during his earthly life. For example, in the Gospel of Matthew, we read the following: Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he fasted forty...

I wrote this article in 2018 for a friend who wanted to know about prayer. John 14 “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” Many have laid claim to this passage as a promise from Christ...

A Coming Attraction: Stay Tuned Back in the 1800’s Richard Chenevix Trench, D. D., then Professor of Divinity at King’s College, in London, would often lecture to his students on Greek synonyms. He then compiled his lectures into a book, which was published under the name, SYNONYMS OF THE...

You have all heard that the word Rapture does not appear in the Bible. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let me show you the actual words Paul wrote in 1 Thess 4:17: ἔπειτα ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες οἱ περιλειπόμενοι ἅμα σὺν αὐτοῖς ἁρπαγησόμεθα ἐν νεφέλαις εἰς ἀπάντησιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς ἀέρα· καὶ...

would like to show you something behind the scenes with the following observation. The debate of the meaning of APOSTASIA in 2 Thes 2:3 must take into consideration 1 Tim 4:1 where Paul uses a verb, not a noun as in 2 Thes 2:3. Here are both verses as Paul wrote them: 2 Thes 2:3 μή τις ὑμᾶς...