by all the plagues and judgments by which God ever bore witness against the evil of sin. The fire of Sodom and Gomorrah was dreadful fire; but yet it was quenched, a little time extinguished it; but that fire of wrath which burns upon, but never burns up, sinners, is...
does not mean something hidden or secret, but something that was previously unknown but now revealed by God. We note this by hindsight, how the Scriptures in the Tanakh and the Torah reveal these things to us, but only after having the revelation of God in the NT text do we see an...
What Does the Bible Say About Love? Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, belie...
In the Bible, sin is described as a transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). Where Does the Bible Talk About Sin? The word sin is first mentioned in Genesis 4:7 when God spoke to Cain. He said, “If you do ...
We also hear in the Christian church that “God is love.” How does this help us to understand the nature of love? Love in Scripture Several verses in Scripture help us define love:“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13)....
If Jesus is right and the Scriptures were spoken by God himself (Matt. 19:4-5) and utterly unbreakable (John 10:35), then the place to start when it comes to something as fundamental as marriage is also the place to end, and that’s by asking the question “But what does the Bible...
in favor of Scripture as the ultimate authority in matters of faith (sola scriptura); the recognition of only two of the seven traditionally recognized sacraments, namely baptism and the Eucharist; and the understanding that sinners are saved solely by God’s grace (sola gratia), by way of th...
“This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in ...
God is holy, and he wants us to be holy as well. The more holy we become, the closer relationships we can enjoy with God. But what does it really mean to be holy? Thankfully, we don’t have to rely on our strength to pursue holiness, because Jesus meets us where we are and hel...
COMMENT: "Perish" means to cease existing. It does not mean to continue living. Life in eternal torment is not what God has decreed for incorrigible sinners! The punishment revealed in the Bible is death — cessation of life forever. Eternal life is something we were NOT born with. It is...