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1.2 May all of you comprehend and fully enjoy/experience Grace = being recipients of God's inherent and inexhaustible benevolence (grace), and Peace = being recipients of a restored relationship with God, the result of which forever settles your eternal destiny, and you are now able to possess a...

Just to give you an idea of what this paraphrase is doing. When it says "one who has received divine appointment as a top-ranking official," this is one of the ancient meanings of the word "apostle." This paraphrase is not meant to be taken as something to publish. It is just what I do in my...

I have intentionally made the topic rather vague to bring out the two aspects of condemnation. There are two, distinct condemnations mentioned in Scripture. The first condemnation is called 'positional' condemnation. This is given to each person born into the world. In other words, it is the...

Here are some numbers and meanings that should help bible students understand the meaning of the word APOSTASIA in 2 Thes 2. APOSTASIA and its cognates appear over 220 times in the LXX. They have a variety of meanings. 66 times in the LXX the meaning is a physical, spatial departure or...

In order to take into consideration of all the events of the end times, we have to account for Ezekiel's prophecy. In chapters 38, 39 Ezekiel tells us that there are 7 months and 7 years that have to be included in the end times picture. The 7 months is how long it takes for the dead to be...

I would like to know if anyone can find one reference in the Old Testament where Election refers to salvation. I was challenged with this but could not find anywhere in the OT where election was a synonym for salvation. in the OT Election is simply being chosen to a position of privileged...

I would like to know if anyone can find one reference in the Old Testament where Election refers to salvation. I was challenged with this but could not find anywhere in the OT where election was a synonym for salvation. in the OT Election is simply being chosen to a position of privileged...

How would you respond to Dr. Walvoord to this quote: "Dr. Walvoord's summary statement is instructive. It must be conceded that the advanced and detailed theology of pretribulationalism is not found in the Church Fathers, but neither is any other detailed or established exposition of premill...

Rom 9.22 εἰ δὲ θέλων ὁ θεὸς ἐνδείξασθαι τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ γνωρίσαι τὸ δυνατὸν αὐτοῦ ἤνεγκεν ἐν πολλῇ μακροθυμίᾳ σκεύη ὀργῆς κατηρτισμένα εἰς ἀπώλειαν, What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction...

Here is the translation of 2 Sam 21.19 in your KJV: "{And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." Notice the words "the brother of"...

Paul is telling the Thessalonians/believers that they are not in the Day of the Lord because the APOSTASIA comes first AND you haven't experienced THIS APOSTASIA as of now. But, have you experienced THE apostasy in your life? Whatever the APOSTASIA is, it must be something observable, otherwise...

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...

This provides an excellent illustration for those interested: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt ... ...snip... ... and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey...

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...