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NT Doctrine — Hebrews 2

Angels proper have always been spirit beings who served God as warriors and messengers. When they spoke, it was with divine authority, as if it were the voice of God Himself. Without fail, violating His Word brought His wrath, including … Continue reading

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Time to Place Your Bets

I get questions. In this case, the question itself is not important; it’s a matter of what it implies. We have a bad habit of not searching out the unspoken assumptions behind what we have been taught to think. To … Continue reading

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Salvation Is Not in Your Head

Radix Fidem doctrine: The key issue is personal loyalty to Christ. What you may or may not know about Him, and what you believe about the Bible and its contents, will not send you to Heaven or Hell. This is … Continue reading

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Content or Compassion?

Do you understand the concept of diplomacy? The Law of Christ is that we love each other as He loved us. In Ephesians 4:15, the proper grammatical expression in English is about how you live, not just what you say. … Continue reading

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The Sure Path

While we might have been surprised by the audacity and scale of vote counting fraud in the last presidential election, the fact that it was fraudulent was no surprise. Many of us saw it coming. If I thought voting mattered, … Continue reading

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Conviction versus Doctrine

Following the Bible Lesson passage in 1 Timothy 4, some good questions came up. In the early chapters of Genesis we have the story of Noah. One detail has confused people. On the one hand, Noah had to take seven … Continue reading

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NT Doctrine — Colossians 2

There’s a lot going on in this chapter. Translators note that this passage is loaded with ambiguous phrases, and too many English renderings follow a path that tends to obscure the depth of what Paul is saying. As previously noted, … 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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NT Doctrine — Resurrection Review

This is a review of a previous lesson on the Resurrection. John 20 (Parallels: Matthew 27, Mark 16 and Luke 24) Jesus lay in the tomb. As the Lamb, He died on the day of Passover, a High Sabbath. Then, … Continue reading

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NT Doctrine — John 21

John was humble enough to make his final chapter about Peter, the appointed leader of the Twelve. This was his endorsement of that appointment, though he published his Gospel long after Peter and the others were dead for at last … Continue reading

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