What Christians believe and teach should find its basis in the Christian scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. However, the author contends that, instead, Greek philosophy has influenced church doctrine from early on in the church age
Eulogy for a Boy
There’s something inherently wrong with a grandfather giving the eulogy at his grandson’s funeral. But here we are. Jackson A. Sparks, a quiet and shy 8-year-old boy, marveled over dinosaurs, superheroes, baseball and his big […]
What’s This Blog About?
Some of the reasons I am blogging are for me. Surprisingly enough, people start a blog for their own benefit. A lot of bloggers out there have posted blogs about the benefits of blogging on their blogs… while blogging. (All right, I will not do that again.)
Gifts From a Divine Lover
If God created the earth’s crust, DNA, the sun, puppies, and the Australian Aborigines, doesn’t it make sense that these things are all interconnected?
The Sound of Silence
It seems to me that, if eternal perdition was a tenet of the early church, there should be something that would suggest as much in the historical record of the first few hundred years. What can we glean from the writings of those who led the early church in the generations immediately following the death of the Apostles?
Cast From His Presence
IS ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD SCRIPTURAL? It is not the eternal fires of hell that torment, we are told, as much as it is the deprivation of the presence of God. The fires certainly burn, […]
Unto the Age of the Ages
The reign of Christ and His priesthood comes to an end. When the Sonship is brought under subjection to God and God becomes all-in-all there will no longer be a need for the mediatorial role of Jesus Christ. This will be when all the purpose and plan of God for all the ages comes to fruition. Everything that God has been working for is suddenly realized right here. We do not know what that looks like!
Hidden in Plain View
The angel told the shepherds, in plain English (if you are reading an English translation), that they brought good news and that that news would bring great joy to all people – a savior is born, which is Christ the Lord.
A Ransom for All
It is clear in scripture that God wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth. There is no dispute about that. Passages like the one we are looking at here are unequivocal and the message is so explicit that, rather than attempting to limit their scope, we should be looking closer at the passages that seem to deny the plan of God to save everyone in the end. We have begun doing just that in this blog.
All Things Reconciled
Check it out, this is the passage that caught me off guard and changed the way I see things. I found myself on a Universal Reconciliation website. I knew about UR and was going to click right out of the site knowing that what I was looking for would not be there.
Something stopped me, however, and I clicked on a tab that caught my eye. There it was: a passage of scripture that was very familiar to me, as a matter of fact, it was among my favorites (and still is). A recurring word was accentuated throughout by enlarging the font and changing its color. It looked something like this:
The Mystery of His Will
There is an event, beyond which we know nothing. It seems to exist in the farthest reaches of the future, it is a wonderful event and it seems to be the culmination of everything God has planned since before time began. But, we know very little about it and, again, we don’t know anything about what comes after it. I am talking about the point in the history of all creation when…
By the Numbers
UNIVERSAL RECONCILIATION IN THE SCRIPTURES Back in 1974 (yes that was before paved roads) we purchased our first new car. My wife and I agreed that I would pick the model and she would pick […]
Sketches on the way 