it is nowhere presented as a condition for receiving eternal life. Instead, repentance is always a condition for temporal deliverance from death, sickness and enemies and is a condition for ongoing fellowship with God. When people repent of their sin, it withholds God’s judgment upon them...
What Time is It?Rita F. SnowdenExpository Times International Journal of Biblical Studies Theology & Ministry
What is the Biblical meaning of faith? Pastor John McArthur speaks of the Biblical meaning of faith: "Some say faith is merely believing certain facts. One popular Bible teacher says saving faith is nothing more than confidence in the divine offer of eternal life. Biblically, however, th...
Is there a source that has definitive answers? Four “natures” We believe in God and accept the biblical account that God created humans in His own image (Genesis 1:26). The Bible tells us what God has to say about human nature, and it tells us about three other natures as well. ...
To some extent, we can learn about life in biblical times by combing the biblical text, but our ability to extract reliable data from the biblical text alone is hampered by a number of problems. First, the Bible does not always give a clear answer, either because we no longer understand...
The Biblical text does not deceive you, however they will not use it as a source. Archeology cannot bear the burden of proving the Bible since it is not meant to do that. Their working assumption is that the Biblical text is only reliable if other archeological proof shows up which ...
Jesus is coming again! We simply don’t know when. “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have ...
published in 1954–1955, has been read by scholars as both a biblical allegory exploring themes of good and evil and as a modern allegory commenting on World War I. Tolkien denies both interpretations, however. The reading of a text as allegory, regardless of its intention, is called “alleg...
“Nietzsche basically said, “If God is dead, everything is permitted.” Dr. Carl Trueman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. builds on that assertion. “[W]hat the madman [Nietzsche] does is point this out to the atheists, essentially ...
The Bible talks about the spiritual tool of fasting. What is biblical fasting? How does God want us to fast? What are the spiritual benefits of fasting?