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The Inherent Impurity of Monsters

If you don’t embrace the Doctrine of Divine Election, then this blog isn’t going to offer you much. I take it seriously; it’s a necessary prerequisite for almost everything I write. Naturally, it’s a fundamental element in any criticism I … Continue reading

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Explain When Appropriate

I’ve been asked several times to build out my mythology a little farther. The Doctrine of Election is no myth. It was not understood in the Old Testament, but it was also not foreign to it. Heiser’s Unseen Realm series … Continue reading

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Stages, Levels, and Code

With some questions, I need to wait a while before I can address them. The last thing I want to do is establish something as doctrine when it’s just my personal opinion. When we talk about something connected with the … Continue reading

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Rejoicing at Revelation

When you recognize the clear statements in the Bible on Divine Election, the implications are enormous. There stands this vast network based on the false Decision Theology that dominates religion talk, and it’s all a lie. We do not convince … Continue reading

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Great Privilege and Expectation

The Word of God is Jesus Christ. In-depth studies of Hebrew lore that stood prior to His birth shows that the Hebrew scholars believed that God’s Word in the Unseen Realm was always a manifestation of His will, an entity … Continue reading

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Don’t Argue with God

I’ve seen countless efforts to identify where in the matrix of our human behavior we become culpable before God. All of it assumes an existing objective standard of right and wrong separate from God’s Person. Thus, should God blame someone … Continue reading

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Not in Our Hands

The Covenant People of God are in the world, but not of it. We can declare the Conservative Dads’ pin-up calendar evil. It’s all we can do to avoid staring at it ourselves, but we should never twitch a finger … Continue reading

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Miracle Growth

I’m often amazed at how people often operate on false assumptions about the gospel message. The Kingdom of Heaven is a kingdom of (a) the Elect who (b) aspire to live by the Covenant of Christ. Election was completed before … Continue reading

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NT Doctrine — Ephesians 2

The theme continues to be uniting Hebrew and Gentile Christians. The previous chapter emphasized our unity as a single nation rooted in Heaven, pointing out how the Lord designed it on three levels: cosmic, global and individual. Here, the emphasis … Continue reading

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In Christ

Most people choke on Ephesians 1:3-14. It’s very dense, and frankly not good writing. People either gloss over it or get bogged down in the precise meaning of the grammar. One of the biggest issues for debate is trying to … Continue reading

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