Articles [18] ↑

• Spanking Children in Light of the New Covenant
• The Savior of All Men?
• Let’s Solve Baptism for the Dead
• Violence in the Bible
• You Are My Disciples, If You Have Love for One Another
• Do “No King but Jesus,” and “Honor the king” Contradict?
• The Antidote to the Love of Money: The Love of God Poured Out in Our Hearts
• The Love of Money: A Hallmark of Our Times
• The Love of Money Is a Root of All Kinds of Evil
• If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
• 2020 in Hindsight: The Apostasy, Part Two
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• Old Covenant Law and New Covenant Law—Are They the Same?
• Q. You say that Christians don't need to tithe. But Malachi 3:7-12 says that not tithing is robbing God. How do you respond?

  Amyraldianism [1] ↑

  • The Savior of All Men?

  Arminianism [1] ↑

  • The Savior of All Men?

  Armstrongism [73] ↑

  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 2
  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
  • Q. Since you have been diagnosed with cancer, do you have anything new to add to your views on healing?
  • Are We Under the Law of Christ?
  • Lessons from the Adulteress
  • Our Better Covenant
  • Herbert Armstrong and the Crucifixion--3 Days + 3 Nights = 1 False Doctrine
  • Q. I thought we received the Holy Spirit by grace. Why, then, does Acts 5:32 say that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him?
  • Q. Why did Jesus tell the rich, young ruler to keep the commandments to be saved?
  • A Short Critique of Herbert W. Armstrong’s British-Israelism--The United States and Britain in Fantasy
  • Questions from Seventh Day Keepers
  • On the Road to Emmaus
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 2
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 1
  • Q. If we are no longer under the law, why did Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, raise the standard of the law?
  • A Personal Note
  • What the Bible Says About Tithing and Christian Giving
  • Old Covenant Law and New Covenant Law—Are They the Same?
  • Q. Isn't the teaching, "once saved, always saved," arrogant?
  • Q. In what way did Jesus fulfill the law?
  • What Is the Christian Sabbath?
  • Q. Don't you think that your article, "Do you think Bible-believing Christians should keep Christmas?" is double-talk? I think that attending a Christmas dinner or having anything else to do with Christmas is observing the day and is an unacceptable compromise with pagan practices.
  • The Hebraic Roots Movement
  • Does God Promise Healing Today?
  • Why Christians Believe in the Trinity
  • Showdown in Antioch: Peter and Paul Face Off
  • Romans 7:2--Loosed From the Law
  • Gadsby's Questions About the Law
  • New Wine
  • Dead to the Law
  • Christianity or Moralism, Can You Tell the Difference?
  • Twin Dangers—Seeker Sensitivity and Legalism
  • Q. How can our righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees? (Matthew 5:20)
  • What Motivated Terry Ratzmann’s Shooting Spree in the Living Church of God?
  • Q. What does the Bible say about divorce for Christians? When is it allowed?
  • Q. Do you think Bible-believing Christians should keep Christmas?
  • Q. Should Christians Celebrate Easter?
  • The New Covenant and Race
  • Q. Is interracial marriage right or wrong?
  • Q. Does Jeremiah 10 describe the decorating of a Christmas tree?
  • Q. Aren't biblically unsound and even cultic groups doing good in the world by promoting standards of decency and morality? Does Luke 9:49-50 say we shouldn't forbid them?
  • Q. Will the wicked really suffer eternal punishment in hell? It seems to me that the Bible may teach that they are merely executed.
  • The Gospel of the Kingdom of God
  • The Personality of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament*
  • Can Man Become God?
  • The Resting Place of Faith
  • What and When Is the Millennium?
  • Q. You say that Christians don't need to tithe. But Malachi 3:7-12 says that not tithing is robbing God. How do you respond?
  • Worship Christ! – Not Days!
  • Q. Why did the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 tell the Gentile Christians to "abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication" and to listen to Moses read on the Sabbath day? Isn't this telling them to keep at least some of the law?
  • Q. There are Scriptures in the writings of John that speak of keeping His commandments. You say that the Ten Commandments don't apply to Christians, so what do these Scriptures mean?
  • Q. What is the lawful use of the law as stated in 1 Timothy 1:8?
  • What Is Legalism?
  • The Transfiguration of Christ--"This is my beloved Son…hear ye him"
  • New Covenant Theology--When Did the Old Covenant End and the New Covenant Begin?
  • New Covenant Theology--The Superiority of Jesus Christ and His New Testament Revelation
  • Part 2--New Covenant Theology--The New Covenant and the Decalogue
  • Part 1--New Covenant Theology--The New Covenant and the Decalogue
  • Law Is Not For the Righteous
  • Q. If Jesus' fulfilling of the law was His completing and ending the Law of the Old Testament (see "In what way did Jesus fulfill the law?"), why did He say, "Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 5:19)?
  • Q. If, as you say, the law was given only to Israel, why does Romans 3:19 imply that all the world is under the law and judged guilty by it?
  • Q. In "When Did the Old Covenant End and the New Covenant Begin?" you say that the New Covenant began at the Cross when Jesus died and His blood was shed. But several Scriptures in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion mention the Sabbath day after Jesus' death, and Luke 23:56 specifically says that the women "rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Doesn't this mean that the Sabbath was in the New Covenant and that we should be keeping it today?
  • Q. Exodus 12:49 says that there is one law for Israel and the stranger. Exodus 20:10 also says that the stranger is to keep the Sabbath. Doesn't this prove you wrong when you say that the law, including the Sabbath, was given only to Israel?
  • Q. Colossians 2:16-17 says, "Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which ARE a shadow of the things TO COME; but the body is Christ's" (CAPS added). Doesn't this mean that the shadow is still for today, that the dietary laws and days of the Old Testament should still be observed, and that the things to come are still in the future (for example, at Christ's second coming)?
  • Clean and Unclean Meats--The Real Poison of Biblical Dietary Laws and "Health Secrets"
  • Q. Referring to Zacharias and Elisabeth, John the Baptist's parents, Luke 1:6 says, "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." Doesn't this contradict your statements in various articles that no man can keep the law and gain righteousness by observing the commandments?
  • Are You Following the Doctrines of Antichrists?
  • Every Man Did That Which Was Right in His Own Eyes
  • The Sons of God
  • Did Jesus Institute Washing Feet As a Church Ordinance or Ceremony?
  • Q. In Revelation, Jesus speaks of those who overcome. What must I do to overcome?
  • Q. Is Lucifer another name for Satan, the devil?
  • Q. How can I know that I am saved?

  Assurance of Salvation [9] ↑

  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 2
  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
  • 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine Ourselves, or Not? | Pt 2
  • 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine Ourselves, or Not?
  • The Two Powers
  • Q. If God makes sure we persevere, how can we be shipwrecked (1 Timothy 1:19) and become castaways (1 Corinthians 9:27)?
  • Q. What is the unpardonable sin, or the sin that Jesus said "shall not be forgiven?" I am afraid that I have committed it.
  • How to Obtain Certain Knowledge of Forgiveness of Sins
  • Q. How can I know that I am saved?

  Baptism [7] ↑

  • Let’s Solve Baptism for the Dead
  • Is the Bible Also the Word of God? Part 2
  • Part 2--Q. If infants were circumcised, why shouldn't they be baptized?
  • Q. If infants were circumcised, why shouldn't they be baptized?
  • Q. Should we baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, or should we baptize in the name of Jesus only?
  • Q. Baptists and Presbyterians argue over whether the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch is evidence for immersion baptism. Who is right?
  • Acts 2:39 and Infant Baptism

  Bible [7] ↑

  • Is the Bible Also the Word of God?
  • The Truth Is Not Relative
  • Is the Old Testament Wrong?
  • Q. Why do you say "that which is complete has come" in 1 Corinthians 13:10 refers to the canonization of Scripture?
  • Why I Have Stopped Using the King James Version as the Default Bible on this Site
  • Q. How can I prove the Bible true?
  • "Have You Not Read…?"

  Bible Studies [4] ↑

  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 2
  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 1
  • Part 2: A Bible Study about Love
  • Part 1: A Bible Study about Love

  Biblical Typology (Types and Shadows in the Bible) [6] ↑

  • The Cup of the New Covenant, in His Blood
    Part 2 of 2
  • The Cup of the New Covenant, in His Blood
    Part 1 of 2
  • Seeing Men Walking as Trees
  • Lessons from the Flood and Noah's Ark
  • Mary at the Mercy Seat
  • Q. Is Lucifer another name for Satan, the devil?

  Born Again (Regeneration) [7] ↑

  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 2
  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 1
  • Some Important Points Concerning Regeneration*
  • The New Birth
  • No One Is Good
  • The Sons of God
  • Were the Old Testament Saints Born Again? The Least in the Kingdom is Greater Than John the Baptist

  Catholic Issues [6] ↑

  • Fifty-one Theses for the Twenty-first Century Ekklēsia
  • Was Mary the Mother of God?
  • Q. Is the Shroud of Turin really Jesus' burial shroud?
  • Did Mary Have Other Children?
  • Q. The Catholic Church accuses that the doctrine of sola scriptura, or the Bible alone, makes every person his own pope. How do you answer this?
  • Q. Are you a Nestorian? By saying that Mary is not the mother of God, are you not guilty of separating the two natures of Jesus?

  Christian Living [45] ↑

  • Spanking Children in Light of the New Covenant
  • Violence in the Bible
  • You Are My Disciples, If You Have Love for One Another
  • Do “No King but Jesus,” and “Honor the king” Contradict?
  • The Antidote to the Love of Money: The Love of God Poured Out in Our Hearts
  • The Love of Money: A Hallmark of Our Times
  • The Love of Money Is a Root of All Kinds of Evil
  • God Will Never Give You More than You Can Handle: True or False?
  • The Devil's Two Goals
  • A Brief Rebuttal to Churches that Continue to Meet During the Pandemic
  • Love Your Neighbor in the Coronavirus Pandemic
  • 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine Ourselves, or Not? | Pt 2
  • 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine Ourselves, or Not?
  • Why Did Jesus Say, “But I Tell You”?
  • Q. Does God see choosing singleness to be equally as good as marriage?
  • Christianity and Your Self-Esteem
  • The Worship Service and the New Testament Assembly
  • Why I Won't Be Signing the Nashville Statement
  • What Is the Law of Christ?
  • The Dangers of the Christian Personality Cult (part 2)
  • The Dangers of the Christian Personality Cult (part 1)
  • Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 3)
  • Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 2)
  • Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 1)
  • Our Spiritual Battle Part 2
  • Our Spiritual Battle Part 1
  • Are there accountability partners in the Bible? Do pastors rule?--Authority and Accountability in the Bible
  • The Richest Man in Town
  • Q. Must we regularly confess our sins to receive God's forgiveness?
  • Part 2: Living Sacrifice
  • Living Sacrifice
  • Don't Be Conformed to This World
  • Q. Must we regularly confess our sins to receive God's forgiveness?
  • Q. What is the fruit by which we are to know people? (Matthew 7:16)
  • Q. What does Jesus mean when He says "the light of the body is the eye"? Our eyes don't light anything. And what can He mean by "the light that is in thee be darkness"?
  • Q. Was Jesus a vegetarian? Should Christians be vegetarians? Since Jesus' death ended animal sacrifices, doesn't this mean that Christians should no longer eat meat?
  • You Are the Light of the World
  • Judge Not
  • Q. In Revelation, Jesus speaks of those who overcome. What must I do to overcome?
  • In Everything Give Thanks
  • Q. In your article, "Why the Suffering?", you say that the root cause of human suffering is sin. Okay. But, if God has forgiven our sins, why do Christians continue to suffer? 
  • The Cure for Discouragement
  • Bread and Circuses
  • Don't Be Afraid
  • A Bible Study About Pride

  Church History [9] ↑

  • Fifty-one Theses for the Twenty-first Century Ekklēsia
  • The Worship Service and the New Testament Assembly
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part Five: The End of Soli Deo Gloria —"Glory to God Alone"
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part Four: The End of Solus Christus or Solo Christo —"Christ Alone" or "Through Christ Alone"
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part Three: The End of Sola Gratia —"By Grace Alone"
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part Two: The End of Sola Fide —"By Faith Alone"
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part One: The End of Sola Scriptura —"By Scripture Alone"
  • Q. Were Early Christians Communists?
  • The Halloween That Changed the World—Reformation Day

  Covenant and Law [69] ↑

  • Spanking Children in Light of the New Covenant
  • Was There a Creation Covenant?
  • Christ Has Set Us Free, but Free from What?
  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 2
  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 1
  • Why Did Paul Call Himself the Chief of Sinners?
  • Did Paul Teach That Believers Still Sin?
  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 2
  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 1
  • God’s Wrath: Objections Answered
  • Is the Old Testament Wrong?
  • Announcement: I Have Changed My Understanding of “New Law”
  • Why Did Jesus Say, “But I Tell You”?
  • The Two Powers
  • Must We First Forgive to Be Forgiven?
  • Are We Under the Law of Christ?
  • Lessons from the Adulteress
  • What Is the Law of Christ?
  • Our Better Covenant
  • Comments on Luther's "How Christians Should Regard Moses"
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 2
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 1
  • What the Bible Says About Tithing and Christian Giving
  • Old Covenant Law and New Covenant Law—Are They the Same?
  • Q. In what way did Jesus fulfill the law?
  • What Is the Christian Sabbath?
  • Shaking of Things Made, And Firmness of Things Given
  • What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
  • What is Antinomianism?
  • Showdown in Antioch: Peter and Paul Face Off
  • The Sermon on the Mount
  • Two Kinds of Obedience
  • Romans 7:2--Loosed From the Law
  • How Christians Should Regard Moses
  • Gadsby's Questions About the Law
  • New Wine
  • Dead to the Law
  • Christianity or Moralism, Can You Tell the Difference?
  • The New Covenant and Race
  • Q. You say that Christians don't need to tithe. But Malachi 3:7-12 says that not tithing is robbing God. How do you respond?
  • You Have Been Born Free
  • Worship Christ! – Not Days!
  • Q. Why did the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 tell the Gentile Christians to "abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication" and to listen to Moses read on the Sabbath day? Isn't this telling them to keep at least some of the law?
  • Q. Why did Jesus tell the rich, young ruler to keep the commandments to be saved?
  • Q. What is wrong with the reading of the Ten Commandments each Sunday in church or with Christians wanting them posted in public places?
  • Q. There are Scriptures in the writings of John that speak of keeping His commandments. You say that the Ten Commandments don't apply to Christians, so what do these Scriptures mean?
  • Q. What is the lawful use of the law as stated in 1 Timothy 1:8?
  • What Is Legalism?
  • Q. What does Paul mean when he says that all things are lawful?
  • The Transfiguration of Christ--"This is my beloved Son…hear ye him"
  • Q. Should we preach the law to bring people to Christ?
  • New Covenant Theology--When Did the Old Covenant End and the New Covenant Begin?
  • New Covenant Theology--The Superiority of Jesus Christ and His New Testament Revelation
  • Part 2--New Covenant Theology--The New Covenant and the Decalogue
  • Part 1--New Covenant Theology--The New Covenant and the Decalogue
  • New Covenant Theology--Must We Obey a New Law?
  • Law Is Not For the Righteous
  • If the Law Has Been Abolished, What Condemns People Today?
  • Q. If Jesus' fulfilling of the law was His completing and ending the Law of the Old Testament (see "In what way did Jesus fulfill the law?"), why did He say, "Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 5:19)?
  • Q. If, as you say, the law was given only to Israel, why does Romans 3:19 imply that all the world is under the law and judged guilty by it?
  • Q. In "When Did the Old Covenant End and the New Covenant Begin?" you say that the New Covenant began at the Cross when Jesus died and His blood was shed. But several Scriptures in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion mention the Sabbath day after Jesus' death, and Luke 23:56 specifically says that the women "rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Doesn't this mean that the Sabbath was in the New Covenant and that we should be keeping it today?
  • Q. Exodus 12:49 says that there is one law for Israel and the stranger. Exodus 20:10 also says that the stranger is to keep the Sabbath. Doesn't this prove you wrong when you say that the law, including the Sabbath, was given only to Israel?
  • Q. Colossians 2:16-17 says, "Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which ARE a shadow of the things TO COME; but the body is Christ's" (CAPS added). Doesn't this mean that the shadow is still for today, that the dietary laws and days of the Old Testament should still be observed, and that the things to come are still in the future (for example, at Christ's second coming)?
  • Q. If we are no longer under the law, why did Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, raise the standard of the law?
  • Clean and Unclean Meats--The Real Poison of Biblical Dietary Laws and "Health Secrets"
  • Q. Referring to Zacharias and Elisabeth, John the Baptist's parents, Luke 1:6 says, "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." Doesn't this contradict your statements in various articles that no man can keep the law and gain righteousness by observing the commandments?
  • Are You Following the Weak and Beggarly Elements, Rudiments, and Principles of this World?
  • Are You Following the Doctrines of Antichrists?
  • Q. Are generational sins or generational curses something Christians should be concerned about?

  Ekklēsia or Assembly ("Church") [43] ↑

  • Are Seminaries Biblical?
  • Fifty-one Theses for the Twenty-first Century Ekklēsia
  • The Worship Service and the New Testament Assembly
  • Are there accountability partners in the Bible? Do pastors rule?--Authority and Accountability in the Bible
  • Why Peter is the "rock" upon which Jesus says in Matthew 16:18 that He will build His church
  • Q. Why did Pilate find nothing with which to charge Jesus?
  • Q. What is the relationship between the Old Covenant assembly of Israel and the New Covenant assembly of believers?
  • Twin Dangers—Seeker Sensitivity and Legalism
  • Spiritual Abuse
  • Q. Why is the church fragmented into so many denominations?
  • Q. When are women supposed to be silent in church? Does the command for a woman to be silent in church apply from the moment she walks into the building or only during meetings, prayer times, and classes?
  • Q. What does Paul mean when he says that he does not permit a woman to usurp authority over a man?
  • Q. Should we stress unity over doctrine? The reason I ask is because my pastor wants to grow our church, so he is stressing what he calls “kingdom unity” rather than “doctrinal division.” Is this what Jesus did?
  • Part 3> Servants Are Brethren Who Humbly Serve: Servants in the Body of Christ
  • Part 2> Ministers and Deacons, or Just Servants? Servants in the Body of Christ
  • Part 1> How Many Offices Are In God's Assembly? Servants in the Body of Christ
  • The Role of Women in the Church
  • Every Man Did That Which Was Right in His Own Eyes
  • June 4, 2010: Persecution and Violence Can't Stop God's Work in California's Prisons
  • No Gift Too Small
  • Part 5 of The Meetings of the Assembly and Part 4 of Servants in the Body of Christ
  • Part 4: The Meetings of the Assembly
  • Part 3: The Meetings of the Assembly
  • Part 2 : The Meetings of the Assembly
  • Part 1 : The Meetings of the Assembly
  • Is Speaking in Tongues for Today? Q. Do you believe that speaking in tongues continues today?
  • The Invitation System and the Altar Call
  • Importance of Small Things in Religion
  • House Churches
  • After more than twenty years, I'm admitting the truth: Hebrews 10:25: What Are We Not To Forsake?
  • November 21, 2007: An Extraordinary Prison Ministry
  • An exposition of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16: The Head Covering
  • The Elements of the Lord's Supper: What Kind of Bread and Fruit of the Vine Are We to Use?
  • Does Your Church Have Chief Seats?
  • Q. In 1 Corinthians 9:22, Paul says, "I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." Does this mean that we should use any means of evangelizing to win people to Christ?
  • Q. You say that women are to be silent in the assembly. But weren't women among the 120 who spoke in tongues on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2?
  • Did Jesus Institute Washing Feet As a Church Ordinance or Ceremony?
  • Q. Can you recommend a church in my area?
  • Are there accountability partners in the Bible? Do pastors rule? Authority and Accountability in the Bible
  • Are You Meeting in God’s House?
  • Q. Are church covenants and membership policies biblical?
  • Are Christians to Greet Each Other with a Holy Kiss?
  • Ekklēsia or Church, Does It Matter?

  Eschatology [1] ↑

  • What and When Is the Millennium?

  Evil [7] ↑

  • What Is God Doing in This Trouble?
  • The Devil's Two Goals
  • Some Important Points Concerning Total Depravity*
  • Q. Why did Adam sin if he wasn't first a sinner?
  • Q. Who afflicted Job? Was it Satan or God?
  • Q. How did evil appear in the Garden of Eden?
  • Q. Did Adam sin out of love for Eve?

  Faith [7] ↑

  • What Is Faith?
  • Hezekiah's Trust in the Sun of Righteousness
  • Ephesians 2:8--Saving Faith the Gift of God
  • Are We At the End of the Reformation?--Part Two: The End of Sola Fide —"By Faith Alone"
  • Q. Why does James say, "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only"? (James 2:24). This seems to directly contradict Paul's teaching that we are justified by faith.
  • Trust
  • The Resting Place of Faith

  Fullerism [1] ↑

  • The Savior of All Men?

  God [10] ↑

  • God’s Wrath: Objections Answered
  • God’s Wrath | Part 2
  • God’s Wrath | Part 1
  • Why Christians Believe in the Trinity
  • A Refutation of Open Theism--The God Who Doesn't Know--Part 2
  • A Refutation of Open Theism--The God Who Doesn't Know--Part 1
  • Q. Why is the God of the Old Testament wrathful but the God of the New Testament loving?
  • Things Jesus Said He Was
  • The Personality of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament*
  • Can Man Become God?

    Attributes of God [1] ↑

    • God’s Wrath: Objections Answered

    Atttibutes of God [1] ↑

    • God’s Wrath | Part 1

    Holy Spirit [3] ↑

    • Q. I thought we received the Holy Spirit by grace. Why, then, does Acts 5:32 say that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him?
    • Why Christians Believe in the Trinity
    • The Personality of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament*

    Trinity [1] ↑

    • Why Christians Believe in the Trinity

  Good News! [4] ↑

  • God Will Never Give You More than You Can Handle: True or False?
  • Bill Sykes' Little Bit
  • Is Salvation for You?
  • The Gospel of the Kingdom of God

  Grace [16] ↑

  • Christ Has Set Us Free, but Free from What?
  • Why Did Paul Call Himself the Chief of Sinners?
  • Did Paul Teach That Believers Still Sin?
  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 2
  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
  • Fact Check: God Hates the Sin but Loves the Sinner
  • Why Did Jesus Say, “But I Tell You”?
  • Fallen from Grace?
  • Must We First Forgive to Be Forgiven?
  • Are We Under the Law of Christ?
  • Lessons from the Adulteress
  • Q. I thought we received the Holy Spirit by grace. Why, then, does Acts 5:32 say that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him?
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 2
  • If We Are Not under the Law, How Do We Avoid Sin?--Part 1
  • Q. I thought we received the Holy Spirit by grace. Why, then, does Acts 5:32 say that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him?
  • How the Need for Repentance is Compatible with Grace--God as the Conquering King

  Healing [2] ↑

  • Q. Since you have been diagnosed with cancer, do you have anything new to add to your views on healing?
  • Does God Promise Healing Today?

  Heaven Hell and the Afterlife [3] ↑

  • God’s Wrath: Objections Answered
  • Hell: Should We Keep Quiet About It?
  • Q. Will the wicked really suffer eternal punishment in hell? It seems to me that the Bible may teach that they are merely executed.

  Homeschooling [7] ↑

  • The Slippery Slope of Homeschool Co-ops
  • Should You Be Homeschooling?
  • Q. How can I afford to homeschool?
  • The Hijacking of Homeschooling
  • Give to Caesar What Is Caesar's
  • Charter Schools: Look Before You Leap!
  • Are you concerned about what your child is reading-- Some Facts and Fiction About Reading, Truth, and Knowing

  Issues [67] ↑

  • Violence in the Bible
  • Do “No King but Jesus,” and “Honor the king” Contradict?
  • The Love of Money: A Hallmark of Our Times
  • 2020 in Hindsight: The Apostasy, Part Two
  • What Is God Doing in This Trouble?
  • A Brief Rebuttal to Churches that Continue to Meet During the Pandemic
  • Love Your Neighbor in the Coronavirus Pandemic
  • Christian Humanism: Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood Church
  • Is the Old Testament Wrong?
  • Q. Does God see choosing singleness to be equally as good as marriage?
  • Christianity and Your Self-Esteem
  • The Growing Threat of Anti-Intellectual Emotionalism, part 2
  • The Growing Threat of Anti-Intellectual Emotionalism, part 1
  • Why I Won't Be Signing the Nashville Statement
  • Wise as Serpents, and Harmless as Doves
  • The Refugee Question: Answered by Christian Mercy or the Sword of the State?
  • Q. Why are pro-lifers trying to interfere with women's reproductive rights and their choice to have control over their own bodies?
  • Q. Does the Old Testament support the idea that a human embryo or fetus is not a living person?
  • Setting the Record Straight About Dr. George Ella
  • "My People Are Destroyed"--Lack of Discernment in Modern Christianity
  • Q. Why is Christianity hated by so many while other religions are more tolerated?
  • What Would Jesus Have Said in Response to the Terrorism of September 11?
  • Q. What are your thoughts on Jennifer Knapp's disclosure that she is living a gay lifestyle?
  • Are you concerned about what your child is reading-- Some Facts and Fiction About Reading, Truth, and Knowing
  • Should Christians Seek to Be Magistrates?
  • Q. Should Christians participate in Halloween celebrations?
  • Peace on Earth, or a Sword?
  • Musings About Ebenezer Scrooge and Modern Wealth and Poverty
  • Q. Don't you think that your article, "Do you think Bible-believing Christians should keep Christmas?" is double-talk? I think that attending a Christmas dinner or having anything else to do with Christmas is observing the day and is an unacceptable compromise with pagan practices.
  • 8 September 2010--How to Turn Muslims Off to Christ in One Easy Step—Burn the Koran
  • How Many Religions Are There?
  • "He...first destroys their mind"
  • The Hebraic Roots Movement
  • The Biblical View of Science
  • The Legal Principle of Prior Claim--Jesus, Taxes, and God’s Claim on Our Lives
  • Why the Suffering? Answering the age-old question, Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer?
  • What Motivated Terry Ratzmann’s Shooting Spree in the Living Church of God?
  • Q. What is a real marriage? Can two members of the same sex really be married? Who has the right to declare what is or is not a marriage?
  • Q. What is the Christian's responsibility toward the environment?
  • Q. What does the Bible say about divorce for Christians? When is it allowed?
  • Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils Is Evil
  • 5 October 2011--Virtual Monkeys Type "A Lover's Complaint"
  • Unsettled Times
  • Swimming Against the Tide
  • Q. Do you think Bible-believing Christians should keep Christmas?
  • Q. Should Christians Celebrate Easter?
  • Put Christ Back in Christian
  • Seeing the Problem, Missing the Answer--The Political Takeover of "Evangelical"
  • The Passion Of The Christ: A DVD To Avoid
  • The New Covenant and Slavery
  • The New Covenant and Race
  • The Lie
  • Q. Is interracial marriage right or wrong?
  • Is Doctrine a Dirty Word?
  • The Greatest Heresy of Our Time
  • G.I. Jesus?
  • Q. Does Jeremiah 10 describe the decorating of a Christmas tree?
  • Q. Does God still directly communicate with His people?
  • Christians, Voting, and Politics
  • Christianity Is Not...
  • Can We Reconcile the Bible and Science?
  • Brit Hume and Witnessing for Christ
  • Are Some Born that Way and Does It Matter?
  • Q. Does the Bible say I should refuse to serve or hire people in my business because of their sexual orientation? Are Religious Freedom Restoration Acts biblical?
  • Q. Aren't biblically unsound and even cultic groups doing good in the world by promoting standards of decency and morality? Does Luke 9:49-50 say we shouldn't forbid them?
  • The Annual Abortion Holocaust
  • Whoever Is President, Jesus Is King

    Apostasy, Heresy [2] ↑

    • 2020 in Hindsight: The Apostasy, Part Two
    • 2020 in Hindsight: The Apostasy, Part One

    Creation, Cosmology, Evolution [1] ↑

    • The Bible Reveals the Universe Is Both Young and Old

  Jesus Christ [8] ↑

  • Is the Bible Also the Word of God? Part 2
  • Is the Bible Also the Word of God?
  • The Growing Threat of Anti-Intellectual Emotionalism, part 2
  • The Growing Threat of Anti-Intellectual Emotionalism, part 1
  • "Who do you say that I am?"
  • Q. Did Jesus claim to be God?
  • Why Christians Believe in the Trinity
  • Q. Does 2 Corinthians 5:21 mean that Jesus Christ actually became sin?

  Jewish Issues [3] ↑

  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 2
  • Who Is the Man in Romans 7? | Part 1
  • Q. Why don't most Jews believe in Jesus?

  Justification [5] ↑

  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 2
  • If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
  • A Rebuttal to George M. Ella’s “John Gill and Justification from Eternity”
  • Q. How can our righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees? (Matthew 5:20)
  • Q. Must we regularly confess our sins to receive God's forgiveness?

  Man [5] ↑

  • Christianity and Your Self-Esteem
  • The Legal Principle of Prior Claim--Jesus, Taxes, and God’s Claim on Our Lives
  • The New Covenant and Race
  • Can Man Become God?
  • The Sons of God

    Thanksgiving [1] ↑

    • Thanksgiving, 2007--Thanksgiving Quotes

  Marriage and Family [9] ↑

  • Q. Does God see choosing singleness to be equally as good as marriage?
  • Why I Won't Be Signing the Nashville Statement
  • Is Sex Outside of Marriage Okay for Christians Today?
  • Q. Is Genesis 6:1-4 saying that angels married humans? Who are the "sons of God"?
  • Do You Love Me?
  • Q. Where did Cain get his wife?
  • Q. Is it biblical for a woman to talk to an elder about her husband's sin?
  • Q. Does the Bible say that wives should place their husbands ahead of their children?
  • Q. Did it take God two tries to make a helper for Adam? Why did God first bring the animals to Adam?

  Mormonism [2] ↑

  • Let’s Solve Baptism for the Dead
  • Mormons Are Not Christians

  Repentance [2] ↑

  • Repentance Part 2
  • Repentance Part 1

  Resurrection [2] ↑

  • Let’s Solve Baptism for the Dead
  • Lazarus, Come Forth!

  Short Quotes [1] ↑

  • Thanksgiving, 2007--Thanksgiving Quotes

  Sin [6] ↑

  • Christ Has Set Us Free, but Free from What?
  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 2
  • Did John Teach Sinless Perfectionism? Part 1
  • Why Did Paul Call Himself the Chief of Sinners?
  • Did Paul Teach That Believers Still Sin?
  • Q. Must we regularly confess our sins to receive God's forgiveness?

  Sovereign Grace (the Doctrines of Grace, Calvinism, the TULIP) [30] ↑

  • The Savior of All Men?
  • Why Election to Salvation, and Why Reprobation to Damnation? Part Two
  • Why Election to Salvation, and Why Reprobation to Damnation? Part One
  • Fact Check: God Hates the Sin but Loves the Sinner
  • God Will Never Give You More than You Can Handle: True or False?
  • How Does Election Occur?
  • Chosen in Him
  • Some Important Points Concerning Regeneration*
  • Some Important Points Concerning Total Depravity*
  • The New Birth
  • No One Is Good
  • Fallen from Grace?
  • Q. Has God reconciled all things to Himself or is He still wrathful? John 3:36 says that the wrath of God remains on the disobedient, but Colossians 1:20 says that God has reconciled all things to Himself by Christ, "having made peace through the blood of his cross." Can you explain this seeming contradiction?
  • Q. If God makes sure we persevere, how can we be shipwrecked (1 Timothy 1:19) and become castaways (1 Corinthians 9:27)?
  • Q. You sometimes use the words "Arminian" and "Arminianism" in a negative way. What do Arminian and Arminianism mean?
  • What Will Be Your Song?
  • Q. What determines whether someone is elect or reprobate?
  • Q. Isn't the teaching, "once saved, always saved," arrogant?
  • Sorting Out the Two Kingdoms
  • A Defense of Calvinism
  • Q. Why doesn't everyone respond positively to the Gospel?
  • Who Are God's Elect?
  • Q. You say that God hardened Pharaoh's heart and the hearts of the people who did not believe Jesus. Doesn't this make God unfair, unloving, and unmerciful as well as the author of sin?
  • Q. Do you consider Martin Luther a Calvinist, since he believed in loss of salvation?
  • Q. Many Calvinists say that it is God who hardens people's hearts. But John 12:40 uses two different pronouns: "He hath blinded…I should heal them." Certainly, God heals, so the "he" who hardens seems to be someone else. Doesn't this mean that God does not harden people's hearts?
  • Q. Does Matthew 23:37 say that Jesus wanted to save all Jerusalem but Jerusalem refused?
  • Q. Did God deliberately reprobate the non-elect to hell or did He merely pass them by? Also, is the difference really a big deal?
  • Cain, Abel, and Choice
  • Q. In 2 Peter 2:1, the apostle says that false teachers will deny the Lord that bought them and bring swift destruction on themselves. If Christians can deny the Lord who bought them and be damned for it, doesn't this mean that not all saints persevere and that Jesus purchased with His blood people who are not eventually saved? If so, this contradicts the teachings of limited atonement and perseverance of the saints that you say are biblical.
  • Q. What determines whether someone is elect or reprobate?

    Calvinism [2] ↑

    • Why Election to Salvation, and Why Reprobation to Damnation? Part Two
    • Why Election to Salvation, and Why Reprobation to Damnation? Part One

  The Parables of Jesus [11] ↑

  • The Parables of Jesus>Who Is the Good Samaritan?
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Unjust Steward
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Dragnet
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Leaven
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Mustard Seed
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Seed Growing by Itself
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Tares of the Field
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> The Parable of the Sower
  • The Parables of Jesus> The Kingdom Parables> Introduction to the Kingdom Parables

  Universalism [4] ↑

  • The Savior of All Men?
  • Q. Has God reconciled all things to Himself or is He still wrathful? John 3:36 says that the wrath of God remains on the disobedient, but Colossians 1:20 says that God has reconciled all things to Himself by Christ, "having made peace through the blood of his cross." Can you explain this seeming contradiction?
  • Q. Romans 5:18 says that by Christ's one act of righteousness, all men were justified. Does this mean that everyone is saved?
  • Q. Romans 5:18 says that by Christ's one act of righteousness, all men were justified. Does this mean that everyone is saved?

  Who Said It? [12] ↑

  • Who Said It? #1
  • Who Said It? #5
  • Who Said It? #2
  • Who Said It? #3
  • Who Said It? #4
  • Who Said It? #6
  • Who Said It? #7
  • Who Said It? #8
  • Who Said It? #9
  • Who Said It? #10
  • Who Said It? #11
  • Who Said It? #12

Attributes of God [1] ↑

• God’s Wrath | Part 2

Religions [2] ↑

• Christian Humanism: Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood Church
• The Hebraic Roots Movement

Salvation [12] ↑

• If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 2
• If It’s Works, It’s Not Grace, Part 1
• How Does Election Occur?
• Chosen in Him
• The New Birth
• No One Is Good
• The Two Powers
• Must We First Forgive to Be Forgiven?
• Q. If God makes sure we persevere, how can we be shipwrecked (1 Timothy 1:19) and become castaways (1 Corinthians 9:27)?
• Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 3)
• Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 2)
• Are We Sanctified by Works or by Grace? (part 1)

Uncategorized [2] ↑

• Q. Why is Word of His Grace not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt religious organization?
• Prevailing_world_religions_map

  Outdated [1] ↑

  • Q. What Bible translation or version do you use? What Bible help do you recommend?