Have you ever heard someone say, "I know that when I die, I will go immediately to heaven, for the Bible says, "Absent from the body, present with the Lord" Is that what the Bible says? No, it does not say that at all, period! That is lifting the middle out of the context and applying a meaning...
I came across this excellent explanation by pastor Timothy Lee Arnett which starts with the resurrection.
II Corinthians 15:35-49 (NIV)
The Resurrection Body
35But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36How foolish! What you sow does not come to...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17
When God said that man would "surely die" if he transgressed God's requirements, He meant that man would cease to live, and would return to...
Very true, it was Manuel De Lacunza a Jesuit priest who used the pseudonym Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra in twisting of the prophecies of the Bible to deflect what pointed to the Catholic Church as the Antichrist entity, which was entitled 'The Coming of the Messiah in Majesty and Glory.'
We also see...
Well, they dont believe Gods Word it seems. A non-literal approach to Genesis devalues the authority of Word of God and does much harm to the Christian faith.
Satan has no qualms about showing his authority including his substitute for the Sabbath, and we see what he said when tempting Christ in the desert...
Luke 4:5-6
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the...
The Witch of Endor story in the bible has some wondering if this is allowed by God and the implications. So lets look at the story and what it shows on King Saul's disobedience, especially on Gods view of witchcraft, wizards, or those that use divination.
1 Samuel 28:3-20
3 Now Samuel was dead...
We know the Devil isnt omnipresent, so how does he temp us, how does he know what makes us stumble, how does see what we are thinking and tempt us as even Jesus had to face it.
Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Does the devil just...
So we go back to the text of Isaiah being given...
Isaiah 1:8-25
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should...
We see the context...
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 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:
23...
There is a false doctrine that teaches all people will be saved, that a good and loving God would not allow any to perish. They come up with many ideas of how this can happen, that after a cleansing period such as another false doctrine, Purgatory, God will free sinners and let them get to...
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We find many threads on what to do if you see a brother sin, usually to rebuke or point him out, but some times to just ridicule or worse things. But how about helping...
Now if you ask, the answer a lot of people give is that is a seven or more years at some time in the future. But the early Church was persecuted from the very beginning, first by the Jews first, then the pagan Romans, then the Papal Romans. So the Church was going through tribulation since it’s...
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