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One of the the doctrines that distinguish Mormons from biblical Christians is their belief that God the Father has a physical body like tha...

I have had discussions with both Mormons and Catholics about Romans 3:28: " For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from the w...

" The right hand of the Lord does valiantly! " (Psalm 118:15). The reference above mentions the right hand of God. We also see ref...

" We were buried, therefore, with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of th...

There has long been a debate on the extent of the Flood of Noah. Was it literally worldwide? Or is that language intended to refer to the w...

When dealing with even professed Christians on Facebook, I get a continuous stream of questions about hypothetical issues. Today someone ask...

A strange description occurs near the end of the Bible : " 'Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is sea...

Mormons claim that there are gods other than the God of the Bible. They deny, on the other hand, that their belief makes them polytheists, b...

When discussing the doctrines of grace, also called the Five Points of Calvinism, I am often told that the Calvinist soteriology depends on ...

The predominant eschatology among American evangelicals is premillennialism (which has different forms, but that isn't the issue here)...

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

One of the main distinctions between dispensationalism and covenantalism is over the relationship between Israel and the Church. The coven...

" They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately th...

There is a heresy which has been going around at least since the time of J. N. Darby in 1830, that says that people in the Old testament w...

Oneness like to quote John 14:9: " Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father ." They claim that this is literal, that looking at ...

The Puritans made great use of the Song of Songs. It saddens me that it has become a neglected book. The literalism that has been popularize...

One of the erroneous doctrines of Oneness Pentecostalism regarding Jesus is that His sonship began with His incarnation in the womb of Mary....

A Skyline in Canaan? In discussing Isaiah 14:3-23, I have denied that it refers to the fall of Satan. I insist that it really is about ...

One of the basic rules of biblical hermeneutics, i. e., the proper interpretation of a document, is that a text must be considered accordi...

Oneness Pentecostals make a lot of bizarre claims. Among them is that baptism is essential for salvation (based on their perverse interpret...