Predestination And Free-Will – Why Would God Tell Us To Receive Christ If We Can’t?
Predestination And Free-Will
Why Would God Tell Us To Receive Christ If We Can’t?
Why indeed, would the Bible say over and over that in order to become saved we must believe the Gospel, we must repent of our sins, we must receive Christ, we must do all sorts of things that we cannot possibly do as spiritually dead beings? The Bible is full of commands that no one is capable of obeying. Take just this one for instance:… Continue reading
Predestination And Free-Will – Why Would God Predestine Anyone To Hell?
Predestination And Free-Will
Why Would God Predestine Anyone To Hell?
This is surely a sixty-four thousand dollar question. It of course relates to the paragraph above (Why does God save some people and not others), but it goes beyond that question to the real heart of the matter – the matter of man’s heart:
Jeremiah 17:9 – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
The heart of man is… Continue reading
Predestination And Free-Will – Why Does God Save Some People And Not Others?
Predestination And Free-Will
Why Does God Save Some People And Not Others?
This is a question that can best be answered by another question: “For who hath know the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” (1 Corinthians 2:16). We do know that whatever God does, it is for His own good pleasure:
Luke 12:32 – “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
Ephesians 1:5 –… Continue reading
Some Church History
Some Church History
If we wish to understand why Christianity is the way it is today and if we wish to avoid making the mistakes others have made in their Christian life, it behooves us to study Church history. The people listed here had a major impact on the church, some for its good and some for its bad. We will stay away from modern day preachers and teachers, leaving that for another study.
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| MARTIN LUTHER | JOHN CALVIN |
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Rethinking The Lord’s Supper
Rethinking The Lord’s Supper
by Eric Svendsen
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood areas of ecclesiology has to do with the significance of the Lord’s Supper. Since the Reformation, much has been written about the presence of Christ in the so-called “elements,” whether there is a real presence or a symbolic presence. This has been a popular debate among Roman Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans and Zwinglians to name a few. Unfortunately, because of this preoccupation with the “presence of Christ”… Continue reading
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