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Many people claim that the moral law of the Old Testament was given for Israel alone, not for the Gentiles. They base their claim on the fac...

Everyone knows the Fifth Commandment by heart: " Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lor...

"[L]ove is not a replacement of the Law of God but rather its highest manifestation or fulfillment (Romans 3:10). In addition..., there...

Noah and the Ark A major argument used by anti-sabbatarians to support their claim that the Sabbath was a Jewish ceremony and not for Christ...

Recently, I have been seeing an argument from antinomians that we are not under the Old Testament law, but rather under the Law of Christ. W...

One of the greatest errors of dispensationalism has passed to a wider audience of evangelicalism. It has become to claim that the moral law ...

There has long been a tradition of dividing the Ten Commandments into two tables, commandments one through four and then five through ten. I...

These two quotes from Gary North ("Tools of Dominion," p. 48), written in 1990, explain why the church is impotent in the face of...

There is a strange and controversial story found in John 7:53-8:11. In the story, the Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman who was caught in adu...

"The law must be applied with power to the conscience, or the preciousness of grace will be very inadequately known. The superficial pi...

"That representation of Christianity which makes the sufferings of Jesus a full and perfect satisfaction of the penalty of the law, and...

We often assume that the repetition of a frightening stimulus will cause the fright from it to decrease, becoming less with each experienc...

Dispensationalism has had an unfortunate longterm impact on Evangelicals, at least in America. Folks of that persuasion love to quote the se...

I often hear people claim that the moral law of the Old Testament was only for Israel. Now, if we were talking about the ceremonial law, I...

American evangelicalism has become a weak and insipid religion because it teaches a weak and insipid God. He is like an indulgent grandfathe...

In general, people understand that Hebrew poetry is different from English poetry. For example, there is no rhyme in Hebrew poetry. And an...

The Pelagian cults - by which I mean primarily the Church of Rome, the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals - hate ...

We often talk about Europe as a "post-Christian culture." Then the conversation often moves to America, which is already "pos...

" Let Israel be glad in his Maker;      let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise His name with dancing,      ma...

" I will keep Your law continually, forever and ever, And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought Your precepts.  I will also...