Articles

• The Believer’s INTERMEDIATE STATE (Between Physical Death and Bodily Resurrection)

  What does the spiritually-regenerated believer experience after physical decease and before bodily resurrection? In this article we will examine the Scriptures concerning the believer’s “intermediate state” between physical death and bodily resurrection.

• FAITH — What Is It? Why Is It Important? How Does It Grow?

  Faith is so important because it’s impossible to please God without it. What exactly is faith?

• Spirit of the World — What is It?

  The same Greek word for “world” in 1 Corinthians 2:12 is also used in Ephesians 2:2. “The ruler of the air, the spirit who in now at work in those who are disobedient” would be satan and, by extension, his filthy spirits.

• Legalism — Understanding Its Many Forms

  Most Christians think legalism is doing a good work in order to be saved, but it’s really much more than this. Legalism is a colossal beast that has been a threat to legitimate Christianity since day one. Legalism is rule-ism or law-ism and, as such, is the obsession with religious rules or laws above relationship with God. It focuses on outward appearances at the expense of inward reality. In short, it’s dead religiosity or fake Christianity.

• Does Christianity Weaken People or EMPOWER?

  I was talking to a man a couple years ago who argued that Christianity weakens people and instills fear. He likened God and the devil to forest monsters in fairy tales that Christian leaders use to control and limit people through fear.

• Can Someone Who Commits SUICIDE Still Have Eternal Life?

  Can a person go to heaven or have eternal life if they commit suicide? What’s the Bible say?

• DEATH — Does It Mean “Separation” as Religionists Claim? (No)

  There are doctrinal “sacred cows” in Christendom that aren’t actually biblical. One of these is the curious theory that death doesn’t really mean death, but rather “separation.”

• Created in the IMAGE OF GOD — What Does It Mean?

  The Bible says that human beings are “created in the likeness of God” or “created in God’s image.” What exactly does it mean to be created in the LORD’s likeness or image? While people are the only physical beings created in God’s image, is it possible that angels — decidedly spiritual beings — were also created in the Creator’s likeness? What does the Bible say on this intriguing topic?

• Law (Torah) — New Testament Believers are NOT Under the Law

  The Judaizers who infiltrated the Galatian assemblies wanted to put the believers back under the Old Testament Law, along with other religious traditions. A good modern example of this would be the legalists of the Hebrew Roots movement, who have infiltrated many churches and seminaries.

• Miracle or Divine Providence — What’s the Difference?

  Believers throw around the word ‘miracle’ a lot when what they really mean is divine providence. There’s a difference: With divine providence God is clearly involved with the event because what happens is just too coincidental (or whatever) and therefore it could be categorized as supernatural provision of some sort.