Grace
Here is a snippet from a comment series on a previous post that I thought was worth highlighting: Incest was necessary given the nature of God’s creation of human lineage. And polygamy and concubines run rampant in the Old Testament among those deemed righteous. Incest is not unnatural in the biological sense. One could, and [...]
A common thorn in the side of most Calvinists is Ephesians 2:8 which reads For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, To keep with the reformed doctrine of irresistible grace (ie. men being robots) they prefer to make the case that [...]
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16 World is not merely nations in this text. Such a distinction, while required in order to prop up the doctrine of limited atonement, is simply not found in [...]
Haiti was recently hit by the largest earthquake in nearly a hundred years. Here’s what Pat Robertson had to say about it: I’ve heard many atheists and anti-Christians take Pat’s comments above as reinforcements to support their belief that Christians are intolerant, bigoted, and wholly devoid of compassion. It’s this group of people I want [...]
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The age of accountability is a teaching in Christianity which posits an age at which children are deemed responsible for their actions. Proponents believe that before this age where sufficient cognitive awareness of self-determined actions is reached, sins and the ensuing punishment is not charged to the unconscious child’s account. The exact age at which [...]
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I’ve read many things about God’s judgement recently. Judgement of nations1 , judgement of groups2 , and judgement of people. The concept of God’s judgement is apparently a very misunderstood and frequently misrepresented and since it has the potential to do great harm to a believer’s growth or an unbeliever’s understanding of the relationship between [...]
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