Articles

• The Lord’s Supper / Communion / Eucharist

    The Lord’s Supper is a ceremony to remember — reflect on — (1) Christ’s body, which was broken on the cross for us, and (2) his blood that was shed to seal the New Covenant between God and all those who believe. Here’s the most detailed passage on the topic: For I received from […]

• Understanding the Religion of LIEberalism

  America’s most famous inventor, Thomas Edison, referred to humanity as “incurably religious.” Thus it comes as no surprise that when people forsake belief in God or some deity/deities, they retain the earmarks of a religious person; it’s just that their ‘god’ becomes the state, pseudoscience, a godless ideology, self, or some combination of these. We […]

• The Prophetic LAW OF DOUBLE REFERENCE

  The Law of Double Reference is the tendency of Scripture prophecy (2 Peter 1:20) to sometimes refer to two things simultaneously — one relevant to the general time of the prophecy and the other relating to the distant past or far-off future. The first two chapters of Isaiah offer a good example: The prophet jumps […]

• Why Is the King of Babylon Paralleled With Satan in Isaiah 14?

  – In Isaiah 14 Satan is paralleled with the “king of Babylon,” Sennacherib.* – * Assyrian king Sennacherib (suh-NAK-uh-rib) conquered Babylon and hence dubbed himself the King of Babylon. – Let’s read the passage in question: – 12 How you have fallen from heaven,     morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth,     you who […]

• Are Homosexuals “Born that Way”?

  One major defense for homosexuality is that those who have this inclination were “born that way.” In other words, they have a genetic predisposition for the practice. The obvious problem with this line of reasoning is that it suggests that people are in bondage to fleshly desires or whims and must live according to them […]

• What Is the Year of JUBILEE?

  Leviticus 25:10 shows that the Year of Jubilee refers to the 50th year after 7 cycles of 7 years in which the land of Israel and its people gained freedom and celebrated. It was to be a year of: Rest for the Hebrews and the soil (25:11). Since the 49th year was already a sabbatical […]

• The Issue of CIRCUMCISION

  Are male believers in Christ obligated to be physically circumcised? What do the rightly-divided Scriptures say? Let’s start with how the apostle Paul knew how to recognize legalists because he used to be one. Notice how he refers to legalists in this passage: Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those […]

• Why You should Always FORGIVE When the Offender Is Repentant

  There’s this religious myth that Christians must automatically forgive everyone for everything all of the time, but this simply isn’t true. To forgive means to cancel the debt or dismiss the offense. While we are certainly obligated to forgive the repentant — those who humbly ‘fess up or apologize in some obvious manner, even if […]

• Is the “Sign of the Horns” Inherently Evil?

    With hand signals you have to be careful to discern what the technical signal is and what the individual in question means by it in his or her heart. For instance, the signal Billie Eilish is flashing in this pic is technically the American Sign Language sign for “I love you” (ILY), which you […]

• What Will the Believer’s GLORIFIED BODY Be Like?

  Since spiritually-regenerated believers are “co-heirs in Christ” (Romans 8:17) — that is, joint participants — we are going to receive the same kind of resurrection body he did. This is why John said, “we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him” (1 John 3:2). And Paul stressed that our current lowly bodies will […]