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" Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living h...

In two places, Paul initiates a theological point  by placing the foundation of his doctrine before time. In Ephesians 1:4, he tells us of t...

" The Lord said to Moses, 'Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may als...

One of the doctrines that distinguishes Jehovah's Witnesses from Christians is the Witness claim that Jesus is not God, but is, rather, ...

" Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,  And the heavens are the work of Your hands.  They will perish, but You will remain;  Th...

" And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall p...

"' Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it a...

" Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,      and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will remain;...

" Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Ta...

I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord , the praises of the Lord , according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great go...

In its New World Translation [sic] of the Bible, the Watchtower Society, commonly called Jehovah's Witnesses, says, "In the beginn...

  In their opposition to the doctrine of the Trinity, Arians and Modalists unite in denying the deity of the Son. Arians, represented primar...

" Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I am working.' This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to ...

Oneness Pentecostals are very difficult to pin down on their doctrine. They will profess something at one moment, and then vociferously deny...

The person of John the Baptist is a curious character in the Gospels. He was a cousin of Jesus, but about six months older. We see the beg...

" Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithyni...

I continue to see people who claim that the distinctive doctrines of Calvinism aren't biblical. However, as I have demonstrated frequent...

 First thing, a little announcement. This is my 700th blog post. Who could have imagined that I would have that much to say! When Mormon m...

Oneness Pentecostals claim that the Son of God began with the incarnation in the womb of Mary. They distinguish the Son from Jesus, whom the...

" 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...