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" Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will b...

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. ...

"The truth of justification by faith alone is contrary to depraved human nature, which always supposes and insists that the way to be r...

One of the least-known doctrines of Mormonism is the pre-existence of souls. One of their websites explains it this way: "Before we we...

Every false religion, that is, every religion other than biblical Christianity, is based on innate human righteousness, the things that men ...

Anyone who looks at the topics that I explore in this blog would have to be deliberately obtuse not to notice that I am a Calvinist. That is...

Atheists will attack the Christian notion of God by pointing out that there is evil in the world. Since that is certainly an undeniable fact...

We men, even Christian men, are often uncomfortable with God's justice. There are two reasons for that. The first is that we are mere ...

There's a big word that I want to talk about: syncretism. Have you ever heard it? Syncretism is the combination, usually unconsciou...

" But My people did not listen to My voice;      Israel would not submit to Me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,        ...

There is a myth that claims that the American government is, and is supposed to be, neutral regarding religion. The reason that is a myth...

" In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting plac...

Related to the so-called question of evil is the question, Is God the author of sin? Did He create sin? Is sin under His control ? Let ...

The Mormons hold to a doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul. That is, that the soul of each human being existed first in the spiritu...

In Question 191, the Westminster Larger Catechism asks, " What do we pray for in the second petition [of the Lord's Prayer]? "...

One of the doctrines of classical dispensationalism that I find most bizarre is its teaching that the Old Testament is a system of works rig...

Almost every Christian is familiar with Matthew 16:18: " I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the g...

My fourth biblical-theology paper.     David, son of Jesse, the second King of Israel, is the foremost character in the second half of I ...