Recent content by AndyBern

(Something I posted on my blog not too long ago...) About 30 years ago, I acquired a white cat named Peewee. As you can see, he looks like a normal cat, and for all intents and purposes, he was normal. But notice the little bend near the tip of the tail. This was a genetic defect inherited from...

Years ago, when I was building my apologetics library, I bought a short book by Bill Cetnar called “Questions for Jehovah Witnesses.” It contains photocopies of pages from various Watchtower publications, with questions for the Jehovah Witness to answer. If you’ve ever had visits from these...

The Church is not the building - it's the people. So... I'm waiting for someone to post a church made entirely of midgets.

A real born-from-above Christian cannot have Satan abiding in him. He can be deceived and influenced by Satan by appealing to the fleshly nature, but Satan cannot abide in him because the Holy Spirit now lives in him. He is no longer a slave to Satan, but practically speaking he is a slave to...

If I judge myself according to the letter of the Law, like the self-righteous Pharisee, I deceive myself into thinking I have the power to resist those sins. But if I judge myself according to the real meaning of the Law, such as Jesus described in Matthew 5:17-48, I discover I really have no...

I saw a website some years ago say there's no cure for floaters, so "just enjoy them!"

Trying to keep the Law implies work on our part... effort to gain or maintain a right standing before God. But nobody can keep the law by human effort, neither before salvation or after. Such effort is fleshly, and our flesh is hopelessly fallen (Romans 8:7-8). (The flesh is not just our desire...

I use Comodo on my Vista laptop. It's so good, it will protect your computer even if the virus definitions are way out of date. It sandboxes everything it doesn't know unless you say otherwise.

I saw a blurb about a study on this on a government website some years ago. Sounds weird, but true... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15650465 (By the way, tin foil hats will do you no good, unless they're grounded!)

There's a distinction made between sin and sins in Romans. 'Sins' refers to the multiple instances of sin, but sometimes 'sin' (not just 'a sin') speaks of the sin nature rather than a specific sin. A couple of examples... Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death...

Do you have a slow motion video of a fly getting hit with a fly swatter?

Justification deals with righteousness and sanctification deals with holiness. When you are justified, you are declared righteous before God. God no longer holds your sins against you. When you are sanctified, you are declared holy (set apart) to God. You are now the property of God. Both occur...

I see three extensions... maybe it would look better braided? :confused2

Chosen "in Him"... interesting that the word Christ means Anointed One. This is another way of saying Jesus is the one God chose to save us. We are chosen if we are in the Chosen One.

I see both predestination and free-will spoken of in the Bible. I don't comprehend it, but I do have some ideas. I don't believe in limited atonement. 2 Peter 2:1 says Jesus bought those false prophets who deny Him - so Jesus died for the lost as well. This, in addition to verses like Ezekiel...