Mark 13:32: Is the Son Ignorant of His Return?
“But of that day or hour NO ONE KNOWS, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone” Unitarians, esp. Muslims and JWs use this passage (among others) to show Jesus is not God....
View ArticleJohn 10:30: “I and the Father are one.”
“I and the Father are one.” Ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν (Egō kia ho Patēr hen esmen), lit., “I and the Father one thing we are”). Both historically and currently, Christians have pointed to this...
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John 1:29: “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”
The mission of John the Baptist was to proclaim the need for spiritual repentance and the coming Messiah. John the Baptist was the one about which Isaiah prophesied in Isa. 40:3: “A voice cries out,...
View ArticleThe Gospel of the Son
Biblically speaking, the gospel (good news) is the substitutionary and sacrificial work of Christ—not the work of man in his response, faith, repentance, good behavior, etc. Besides passages such as...
View ArticleChristian Evangelistic Accountability
Romans 10:15: “How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written [Isa. 52:7], ‘How Beautiful’ [or ‘timely’] [are] the feet of those [“the man in motion”] [euaggelizomenwn] gospelizing...
View ArticleHomosexuality 21st Century
9 “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, 10...
View ArticleGod the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit 1) Is called God and Lord in a religious context. 2 Is identified as YHWH. 3) Possesses the divine attributes. 4) Accomplishes divine works. 5) Was worshiped as God; that is, in the...
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Mary & Roman Catholicism
The Marian dogmas of Rome, start with Rome’s view of an impotent Jesus, whose atoning cross work was anything but sufficient. Rome’s teaches that the work of Christ merely made “a pathway” for man to...
View Article2024 Philippines Pastors Conference: Scripture Alone (Sola Scriptura)
We will be ministering again in Baguio, Philippines. There we will hold the annual First Love Pastors Conference and participate in hosting the local Christian radio station. Because so many...
View ArticleWho is the “Good Samaritan”?
The overall paradigm of the first century church was love and doctrine: Gal. 5:14: “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (cf. Rom....
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