John MacArthur dies at 86
By The Associated Press The Rev. John MacArthur, an influential and exacting evangelical preacher, died Monday at the age of 86. He led Grace Community…
theology
Scarlet or Purple?
I was talking with a friend, and he offered this up as a contradiction between the two accounts. When Jesus is about to be crucified, during his flogging Matthew says the soldiers clothed him in scarlet while Mark says it was in purple. I …
Cosmou and Tartarou – are these Greek Democracy and Golden Horde in Enoch 20.2?
In Enoch XX.2 (20.2) Uriel is said to be a saint angel over the kosmoi and the tartaroi. Codex Panopolitanus Enoch XX.2
By analogy to other facts in 20.3-6 these should be some kind of a collective or society, whether of people or spirits …
Why do the Renaissance era English Bible translations prefer the word "devils" rather than "demons"?
Tyndale Bible, Geneva Bible, King James Bible, and Douay Rheims Bible (all from the same era) prefer to use the word "devils" (or an earlier variation such as "deuils"). The English word "demons" was never us…
Scott Kelso: Theological Violence in the 21st Century
Scott T. Kelso, Theological Violence in the 21st Century: The Eclipse of Ethics and Morality in Today’s World (New York: Boss Media, 2021), 184 pages, ISBN 9781633375079. In the Old Testament, we are shown how God sent prophets again and again to warn Israel of its impending destruction if it did not repent of its […]
Tithing in the churches today
Q. Why are there so many debates about tithing today?
JC Pennys’ chain of malls in America has the testimony of tithing; why is it negated today?
Looking unto Abraham, he gave a tithe, Jacob vowed and gave a tithe, even before Moses came a…
Praying the News
The “news” is by its nature, mostly negative. An airliner that makes it to its destination is not news, but one that falls out…
"the Holy Spirit" vs. "the Spirit" in Acts 2:4 -What are the meaning and reference differences?
Can the Holy Spirit, the Person, be a "medium" (be filled with) and an "agent" (gave the utterance) at the same time?
English translations added "the" and capitalized the first letter "S" arbitrarily…
Luke 4:6-7 How do we read that Satan receives authority over the kingdoms of the world?
How do we read that Satan had received authority over all the kingdoms of the world? That is, he received them, and so offers them to Jesus in the following verse (and of course he cannot offer something to Jesus that he does not possess)…
In the Gospel of John, why does Jesus say (four times), "I will raise him up at the last day"?
It’s obviously significant since he repeated it four times, but what actually is the significance of the phrase?
The phrase is translated from the Greek ἀναστήσω αὐτὸ (ἐν) τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ which occurs in the following four verses:
John …
Keep your eyes on the coming of the Redeemer. #Signs…
Keep your eyes on the coming of the Redeemer. #Signs are everywhere John Kissinger [11/03/2015 12:14 PM]Russian media has been publicizing nuclear war recently….
Does Isaiah 46:5 say that God has no equal?
Isaiah 46:5 ASV To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and
compare me, that we may be like?
Having consideration of the rest of the bible, does this passage imply;
God has no equal
God has an equal – possibly Jesus
Is there more t…