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Gospel technically means nothing more than “good news”. The Bible teaches that the Gospel, the good news, is completely centered on a historical person, the person of Jesus the Messiah, or Jesus Christ. The teaching has it’s focal point on a few key phrases as follows.

“Repent and believe.” “Believe and be saved.”

These phrases provide [...]

In regard to the objection that, as it is a universal claim that “all men are mortal”, one would have to first have knowledge of every instance of man in order to know that the claim is true, a good counter-objection would be to ask the objector to define “man” without the use of words [...]

If the Bible did not teach the absolute dependency of man upon God, how would one come to know this? If man’s reason wasn’t entirely governed by God, thus rendering man’s use of reason completely contingent upon God’s sovereign guidance, how would one come to reason whether this is true or not? When pondering the [...]

Many people assume that if God is to punish man for his choices then God is unrighteous if He does not grant to man that same nature of choice that He possesses, that choice which nothing higher governs. What is the basis for this assumption? I will argue that this is a base assumption for [...]

In Vegas, I began having intense dreams where I became enraged at people doing violence to other people. Sometimes the dreams would be a depiction of an event where a man would be attempting to rape and kill a woman and I would see it occuring and became unspeakably angry and that anger would drive [...]

I watched this movie recently, “Bridge to Terabithia”, where a young, roughly 10-year old boy with an affinity for art meets a new girl at school who turns out to be his new next door neighbor. This girl has a rather fantastic imagination involving a land of magic and wonder which begins to influence the boy as [...]

Where atheism in the past appears to have been commonly understood as a belief that God or gods do not exist, it is more widely accepted as a definition today to say that atheism is merely a lack of belief that God or gods exist. Many atheists will proceed from this standpoint to say that [...]

In refutation of Calvinist John Feinberg’s essay concerning divine sovereignty and human freedom, Clark Pinnock notes, “God willed whatever happens. It would be irrational to worry about anything in the Calvinist’s universe. Just submit to the deterministic will of God!” 1 What wisdom Pinnock speaks of the Calvinist position! Calvinists tend to abide by a standard [...]

In my past experience, people have so often reckoned that I was possessed of homosexual tendencies that it had made the weight of my most dire sins far more burdensome than necessary. I so intensely suppressed my sinful lusts for women that people constantly assumed that I was gay. At times when I allowed myself [...]

I’ve quite often seen believers make assumptions that unbelievers are more sincere and honest than they may actually be. We should always excercise caution in dealings with unbelievers, for they are at enmity with God and thus, there is some degree to which they have lied in their hearts, saying that God is not who [...]

The Lord has placed a tremendous burden upon my soul. I have a deep love for my estranged wife, my daughter through her and her son through another. I have forever had a love for Destiny, my daughter, because of my love for Jasmin, her mother, and I now have a dire love for Collin, [...]

I’m giving $40 for offering rather than my typical $20. This is the result of John MacArthur’s preaching in “Whose money is it?” I trust his work and I know that God has shown me what I need to do with my money. This new giving will thrust me into even more dire financial strain, [...]

In the world outside of my Christian world, men and women have intimate affairs outside of marriage, dating with the purpose of fulfilling some strange desire for intimacy which conflicts with their desire to remain single and free. It conflicts perhaps without their full recognition of the conflict, but the conflict easily manifests itself in [...]

In the chat room I frequent, there’s been some discussion centered on God’s sovereignty and the authorship of sin. If God is the cause of all that occurs, they say, He then is the author of sin. If He controls everything and has predetermined everything, they argue, then He is the author of sin. I [...]

It makes no sense to speak of a so-called possible world where there are no logical laws, for such a world would preclude the concept of possibility by which to call it possible. Logical laws which presuppose truth, which God is, are impossible to deny and any so-called possible world which does not presuppose them [...]