In my experience and research over the decades it appears that the vast majority of Christians don't believe the gospel. They tend to either reject salvation being contingent upon accepting Christ as Lord or reject the idea of salvation being by faith apart from works and that the Lordship con...
I can attest, spending much time among devout Christians, that Dreher has done it again, capturing our present mood: we’re trapped between wanting to throw ourselves into movement politics to defeat The Beast, or looking inwards in the hopes of becoming the change one wants to see in the ...
To be damned, of course, is be condemned and doomed to eternal punishment. Christians, for example, has the hell in reserve for the damned.Colloquially, people used this expression a lot, even if in not-so-serious situations. In fact, some use it whenever they find themselves in a no-w...
The story of the ten virgins of whom 5 found themselves outside is because they discontinued their zeal. They are Christians like the other 5 but because of sloth or pride they fall away and they not faithful to the end of this lives. Matt 25:1 – 13 “Then the kingdom of heaven sh...
or those only briefly mentioned in encounters with Jesus. Thus, the research reflected above. As the last resource above mentions, tradition has these men to go on to be Christians. This makes perfect sense, particularly once the Resurrection came to light. How long did they remain in the Sa...
He admitted that I hadn't done anything wrong by writing poetry, but he was still upset about it because it was talking bad about christians. He told me not to go to anymore meetings and that he would call me every other week to talk. He only called me the next week and has never...
Whether you respect it, roll your eyes at it, or laugh at it, it’s a thing. Although not all religions observe the season of Lent, many Christians that do are faithful followers of Jesus and have a clear understanding of what it means to abstain from something that is important in you...
I believe that quantum and astrophysics seems to reveal about the world of nature moves it farther away from the idea of a machine (as in modern science) and closer to the ghost from which the European scientific revolution initially fled. Closer to the a view of nature that tradi...
All Christians who commit suicide will go straight to heaven because they cannot lose their salvation with the Lord God will judge each case individually As you can see, you have two extreme positions, and then one position that is in the middle of the road. ...
Christians are of the same force, whether we are to die to-night, or to live for a century. So in my text I wish you to note what you are now; what, if you live, you are sure to become; and what, in the view of both stages, you will be wise to do. ‘When thou wast ...