Compassion and Condemnation What is true compassion and what is true condemnation? What does it mean to have biblical compassion on another and what does it mean to condemn another? To condemn another is to effectively judge them as lost, damned. It is also to esteem yourself as being intrinsically superior to another and/or to…
A Response to Matt Slick’s "Baptism and 1 Peter 3:21"
A Response to Matt Slick’s “Baptism and 1 Peter 3:21” Article As found here: http://carm.org/baptism-and-1-pet-321 The following is a quick response to Matt Slick’s work on Baptism. I mean him no ill-will but am convinced that what he stated concerning baptism does not reflect what scripture declares in 1 Peter 3:21 and elsewhere. For the…
The Great Preventive/Preventative
The Great Preventive/Preventative Every -ism there is starts with a set of core beliefs; by definition, -isms are a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy founded upon some belief or another. The best way to remedy the proliferation of negative religious -isms, and to prevent them in the first place, is to stay in the word of God. Legalism…
Gross Darkness
Gross Darkness Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.…
A Holistic Hermeneutic
A Holistic Hermeneutic Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 Finding Christ in the scripture is a deep, deep blessing; it reminds us over and over again of the totality of who He is and what He has done. Seeing Christ, by faith, in His word is…
The Bible on Strife and Contention – Part One
The Bible on Strife and Contention Part One Much has been said on the need to avoid discord amongst the brethren — and rightly so. This has been a matter laid heavily on my heart recently, partly out of true conviction and partly out of what I perceive to be a serious misunderstanding concerning the matter.…
God’s love and hatred…
God’s love and hatred… I cannot quantify it now but I believe that there are significantly more verses pertaining to God’s love in the Bible than to God’s hatred. God is glorified in the Highest not in the damnation of the non-elect but in the salvation of the elect. Nonetheless, when His hatred is spoken of, we should…
The Heart Of The Righteous Studieth To Answer
The Heart Of The Righteous Studieth To Answer The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things Proverbs 15:28 The heart it says; not the hearts but the heart. The righteous have but one heart, the inner man created after the image of God, yoked to…
No Mere "Supposed" Righteousness!
No Mere “Supposed” Righteousness! The Lord Jesus declares “…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be BORN AGAIN, he cannot see the kingdom of God…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. “ Concerning God’s elect,…
The Like Figure
Please note that this and other posts on the matter will likely be deleted/archived in preparation for a master article to help reduce redundancy and to streamline the listing and discussion of all key points. Also, contrary to the below, antitypos does not always mean just the antitype; it can also be the type of the antitype – so…
Spiritual Wrestlings 