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How It Works

Okay folks, one more time: The biblical doctrine of divine election is not how it is, but simply how it works. We cannot possibly know how it actually is in Eternity. Scripture makes that clear. We can only know what … Continue reading

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Salvation and Election

(This continues the previous post.) Creation is obliged to glorify the Lord. It does that automatically. What differentiates humans from the rest of the natural world is the moral responsibility of doing it by choice. ontology — The branch of … Continue reading

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Cain’s Wife and Election

People keep asking: Where did Cain’s wife come from? The answer is not direct. We have to go back to were Cain stood, in the sense of what Scripture tells us. We must restore to our minds the biblical outlook … Continue reading

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The Coming Shock: Coda

Yesterday’s Bible lesson was already a bit long, but I need to add something that may not be obvious. In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul quotes from Daniel’s description of a type of Antichrist. Daniel does the same thing we saw … Continue reading

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We Hold It Forth

This conversation continues, and I’m hoping you can wrap your head around this. It’s not a question of what God does behind the scenes in Heaven. We cannot possibly know about that until we are there with Him. What really … Continue reading

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For Jesus’ Name

Upon some offline discussions about Divine Election, it seems I need to add some clarifications. Start with the foundation: We cannot know eternal things the way we know about our lives here in the Fallen Realm. From ancient times, our … Continue reading

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Privileges, Not Rights

Whenever I write about Divine Election, I always get questions. The majority of the time, they are questions asked from an American point of view, with all the bogus nonsense about human rights, etc. The ancient Hebrews never thought in … Continue reading

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Kiln of the Soul: A Statement of Faith

We are prepping for tribulation. A couple of weeks ago we looked afresh at the core of the Covenant of Christ — His Law is His love. Doctrine is frankly secondary; theology is merely human speculation. Jesus said that feudal … Continue reading

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Tend His Sheep

Collate; pull together your memory of Scripture. There were Three Rebellions: (1) The Fall in the Garden forced us into mortal bodies and made us focus on a worldly existence; (2) the Watchers crossed the boundary into this world and … Continue reading

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Getting Words Right

Re: Naked Bible 131: Conference Interviews Part 4 Let’s talk about terminology. This is no different than anything we’ve said before; it’s just another person expressing the same thing when Heiser interviewed NT Wright. The Kingdom of God is what … Continue reading

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