When a child leaps into a parent’s arms, the child does so believing that the parent will catch and protect them. Biblically, faith demands a similar conviction that God is faithful to keep His promises. This theme recurs throughout Scripture, such as: “Trust in the LORD with all your ...
As Charles Spurgeon famously put it when asked about how he reconciles the apparent tension in the Bible between God’s sovereignty and man’s free will, “I was once asked to reconcile these two statements, and I answered, ‘No, I never reconciled friends.’”So does God have someone ...
Paul David Tripp suggests that if isolation from the culture (rejection) is on one end of the spectrum, and immersion in the culture (assimilation) is on the other end, then Christians can find a biblically-appropriate place between the two. He calls this place, “redemption interaction.” R...
Or, again, does the Bible seem to prohibit marriage, and particularly slave-ee intermarriage, for female slaves? I shall argue, first, that the two terms as used biblically are synonyms. The most likely reason, in my opinion, for the presence of two terms is that each has a ...
“and THROUGH HIM (Jesus) to reconcile to Himself ALL THINGS, whether on Earth OR IN HEAVEN (because of the fallen angels that sinned, and helped to deceive mankind into thinking they didn’t need to worship the Most High God alone, but could worship no god [atheistic] or any number of...
f. We believe that this view is the one that is most biblically based of all. In Romans 11:17-27, the apostle Paul used the analogy of an olive tree to illustrate this. Let me summarise what he wrote: The Covenant is represented by an olive tree. The Israelites are the natural ...
me ever again, BEFORE I choose to reconcile with him. And reconciliation takes place in stages – I am free to interact on a limited level or not at all. There are some people whom I am required to forgive but I am not necessarily required to continue in relationship with them anymore....
The perspicuity of Scripture does not mean that everything in the Bible is perfectly clear, but rather the essential teachings are. Popularly put, in the Bible the main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. This does not mean — as Catholics often assume...
d. Hyper-Calvinists are unable to see how God can be gracious to all, and yet at the same time be gracious to some, and willing to save all when He has already willed that only the elect would be saved. To them, it is a contradiction that God Himself cannot reconcile. It must be...