Paul calls those brothers who visit Philippi and, in Christ, “saints.” This is a nice segway into the plural version of a saint. If we go back to the 1 chapter of Philippians, we see Paul and Timothy’s greeting: “To all thesaints(hagios-Same Greek word as above.)in Christ Jesus...
let those who are in the midst of herdepart, andlet notthose who are in the country enter her. 22 For these are thedays of vengeance, thatall things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those who are pregnant
anchorage of the soul we want no shifting sand-bank, but that to which we may make fast and be sure that, whatever shifts, it remains immovable. You can no more clothe the soul in ‘perhapses’ than a man can make garments out of a spider’s web. Religion consists of the things of...
then how can Protestants believe in the erroneous teaching of “Once saved, always saved?” If salvation occurred at a specific point in time when we accepted Jesus as personal Lord and Savior, there would be no need to endure to the end. We would ...
“If the lineal succession of bishops is to be considered with how much more benefit to the Church do we reckon from Peter himself, to whom, as bearing in a figure the whole Church, the Lord said: Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not conquer it!’...
“prophecy,” corporate leadership style, social justice, and the freedom we have in Christ. Teaching on some of those topics can be edifying if done in the unmoving shadow of the cross of Christ, through which I was crucified to the world and the world to me. However, I strongly ...
There is logic behind belief in a Creator God and the power of absolute truth…even in spiritual things. If you would like to learn more on this topic, I recommend the book, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be an Atheist” by Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek ...
“My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap. However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefor...
Using Petros to translate Kepha was done simply to reflect the masculine noun of Peter. Moreover, if the translator wanted to identify Peter as the “small rock,” he would have used “lithos” which means a little pebble in Greek. Also, Petros and petra were synonyms at the time the ...
” The heavenly bodies were therefore created for the earth, to adorn it, and to mark its seasons. The earth is God’s focal point. This ordering is another indicator that the earth is the center of the universe. How could the sun be the center, if it wasn’t created until the ...