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Lk 20:34 "Jesus said to them, 'Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like...

As a retiree, I watch a lot of TV. I was sickened by the blasphemous ways God's name is used in most Hollywood TV and movies. The shacking up, one night stands or bf/gf cohabiting being portrayed as normal, was sick enough... but using God's name with such vile gutter trash words angered me...

A. Faith is the new law, neonomianism - "So you see, faith or belief is counted the same as obedience. It is obedience. On the other hand, unbelief is counted the same as disobedience." B. Faith is the means or instrument to apply justification to the believer - "Faith is the sole means or...

YES, there are major and important differences between the First and Second London Confessions of Baptists. For instance, the following important points - There is NO mention of the Ten Commandments, Old Covenant or the Sabbath in the 1644/1646 Confession. Also, importantly, In the 1644/1646...

There are definite rules for biblical interpretation and a couple of articles illustrate this well: From an article found in the 1952 RSV, "Method and Procedure of Revision": "A recent speaker has told of a project to issue 'a theologically conservative translation of the Bible.' Doubtless this...

It is human nature, that any of us who have studied the Bible for any length of time, develop our own Systematic Theology, maybe gained from one source or several sources. Then, we will tend to interpret a passage so that it fits our already believed System of Theology. Don't we all risk doing...

1. Everything that is not specifically annulled by name in the New Covenant? 2. All that is called "Moral" law which is the Ten Commandments PLUS what is added to the Ten such as in the Larger Westminster Catechism? 3. All the Old Covenant laws for they come from God? 4. No Old Covenant...

I support fully so much of the policy decisions President Trump has made and put into effect. I voted for him in 2016 and 2020 and also supported his Presidential run with money. His narcissism in the past I attributed to a sense of humor that was geared to tweak and arouse the anger of...

I debated where to place this, but since it comes from Bible study, I'm posting it here. I have been asked a young Japanese man who is Buddhist, to tell him about the Bible and the Christian faith. The following is what I emailed him. I know I've missed some key points I should have included...

The magazine Christianity Today has stirred up the social media with their article about photos depicting Jesus looking like an Oriental. Well, Jesus was from west Asia, the Orient. Why was it more offensive to portray Jesus as looking like a Chinese than depict him looking like white...

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." (Ps 37:25 KJV) Matthew Poole has good comments on this verse: "This assertion seems to be contradicted by many experiences; nor can it be denied, that both good men and their children...

The men writing the NT books did not put dates on them. Some contain enough in the body of text that a date of writing can be confidently accepted. Others have quite large variance in scholar's ideas of the date of writing. If the NT writers did not give a date, then there must be some key...

Robert Lewis Dabney, Presbyterian Theologian and Philosopher, (1820-1898) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lewis_Dabney R. L. Dabney is my favorite theologian, even though he is Presbyterian and I am Baptist. He warned soon after the War Between the States as follows: "But the American...

Beatitude means blessedness, and as defined: Blessed - Oxford: Endowed with divine favor and protection. Theological Dictionary of the NT - Often, then, we find sacred paradoxes (Mt. 5:3ff.; Lk. 6:20ff.). God effects a reversal of all human values. True happiness is not for the rich and secure...

From Manual of Theology (1857) by Baptist John L. Dagg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Dagg "He stated explicitly, that the day will not come, "unless there be a falling away first, and the man of sin be revealed."It was necessary that time should be allowed for the Romish apostasy. So...

For years I've heard and read references to the Dead Sea Scrolls and how they helped with modern translations. Recently I found there is a Dead Sea Bible in English. Three scholars put together much of the OT, that which they have scrolls for, and organized it into a readable Bible. It...

Heb 12:3-7 KJV For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son...

When I hear or read, "The Lord told me...." or, "I was led by the Lord to...." I toss it into the rubbish bin. That is delusional and I'd be truly scammed to believe it without proof; proof such raising the dead or some such. The Apostles themselves gave miracles as proof of their messages...

God's will of decree includes his election(predestination) of persons for salvation "and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain." (Rev 13:8 RSV) "When the Gentiles heard...

The attributes of God and statements about Jesus Christ in the NT The communicable attributes of God are those which man can possess to a finite degree, love, justice, etc. The incommuicable attributes are those only God Almighty can possess. Some incommunicable attributes of Almighty God are...