Many contend that God is love. What they mean by this is that the essence of who God is, is love. Such verses as 1 John 4:8 and 16 are cited in support when they say, “God is love.” Many take this to mean that love trumps everything its opposite, viz. anger, jealousy, and judgment [...]
Sounds confusing, right?
Let me explain:
The Roman Catholic church (hereby called RCC) says that once the priests have consecrated the elements, the substance of the bread and wine become the actual, physical blood and body of Christ (CCC 1377) while still keeping their respective outward properties as bread and wine. That is to say, it is [...]
John 1:1 sets forth the greatest argument concerning the deity of Christ as the eternal, pre-existent, Word as well as showing the intensely intimate relationship between the Son and the Father within the Godhead.
However, the deity of Christ is constantly under attack by non-Christians. Historically, it was the Arian heresy that denied the deity of [...]
Hebrews 6 and 10 contain two of the most sobering warnings in all of Scripture. In this first post, I want to look at Hebrews 6:4-6 and tackle some of the questions that come up concerning this text, along with the various interpretations and views of this text. I would like to then conclude with what [...]
I mentioned in Part I that a place cannot exist where we are punished for our sins, though our guilt has been forgiven by Christ. I would like to expound this thought some more, drawing from Francis Turretin’s Elenctic Theology.
The idea that Purgatory is a place where you are punished for things that you are [...]
Martin Luther once said that the doctrine of salvation by faith alone (sole fide) was the point upon which the church stands or falls. How true it is. To deny salvation by God’s grace alone and introduce a formula of faith + works that determines whether we are justified and righteous before God completely sullies [...]
Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!
We have seen that the contents of the cup that Christ drank from was that of God’s justice and wrath. Through the previous word study, it was also demonstrated the imagery of a cup has strong parallels with God’s [...]
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
Throughout the course of the history of humanity there has always existed a problem between God and man: sin. The question throughout history has never been, (until the past 50 years) “how could a [...]
Matthew 26:36-44
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to [...]
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