Word Study – ‘Heart’
What does scripture say about the human heart? Is it good, evil or something else? What has God promised to do with peoples hearts? Can hearts be influenced, changed, transformed and softened? What are the [ Read More … ]
Protestants Reformers
Book Review – Akin, James. The Salvation Controversy
I bought and read this book because I wanted to gain some insight into how Catholics understand future salvation. In particular how they relate the concepts of judgment and salvation together with respect to faith [ Read More … ]
Galatians 1-3 A person is not justified by works of law but through faith in Jesus Christ
From Galatians 1-3 Do Gentile Christians have to observe God’s commands in the law of Moses? Is it a sin for them not too? Are these commands the way you can tell who God’s people [ Read More … ]
Book Review – GA Anderson, Sin: A History
I read this book a couple years ago and it has left a lasting impression on me. Written I believe, by a Roman Catholic, he quotes a fair amount of scripture explaining the shift in [ Read More … ]
Comparing Justification in James with Paul
The classic Protestant doctrine of ‘faith alone justifies’ cannot be reconciled with James’ statement to the contrary. ‘A person is justifed by works and not by faith alone‘. (Jas 2.24) This post takes a look at [ Read More … ]
What is the Gospel? – 01 – Introduction and Book Survey
“‘Gospel’ is one of those words that is so basic, so fundamental to Christian life that it can be taken for granted. It can become the term for just about anything at all in the [ Read More … ]
Explanatory Functions – 3 – Historical Evolution of Interpretations
This is the last post of a series that discusses explanatory functions. See the intro and sola scriptura for the first two. What if a particular text could be interpreted several ways. That is having [ Read More … ]
Explanatory Functions – 2 – Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda
Hopefully from my last post you can see each successive explanatory function is an increasingly better fit with the original series of numbers. Unfortunately, once a group emerges that produces a new explanatory formula they become [ Read More … ]
Explanatory Functions – 1 – Introduction
The following series discusses some issues relating to interpreting the bible. This is post one of three. Here are the links to the other posts. 2 Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda 3 Historical Evolution of Interpretations For any [ Read More … ]
2 Kings 20-22 Book of the law in the house of the LORD
From 2 Kings 20-22 Because of the scarcity of books and the ability to copy them not many had access at all to the scriptures in Israel and Judah. If the current king was an [ Read More … ]