God feels angry: “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” Psalm 7:11. Since God cannot sin, anger cannot be a sin. It is an important feeling which God gave us at creation. Anger alerts us that something is [...]
I Corinthians 6 (NIV) begins: “If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints.... If you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?” (verses [...]
First, an angel was sent to Mary to tell her she was going to become pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit. “The angel Gabriel was sent by God into a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin.....named Mary.....He said, thou shalt [...]
It’s hard to believe God is a god of love, justice, wisdom, and power when most religions teach God is sending the vast majority of people to a place of torment for eternity! What kind of wise, loving, just plan would create human beings [...]
The King James Translation of 1 Timothy 3:16 is inaccurate. The word “God” is added. It is not in the original Greek. The actual word in the Greek is “he” and it is referring to Jesus Christ. The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is respected [...]
“Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of sin (with death as the result) or of duty (resulting in righteousness)?” Romans 6:16 (Weymouth translation) [...]
The entire passage of 1 Timothy 3:1-7 should be read but the relevant passage to this question may be verse 7: “He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.” The [...]
The meaning of the cross to the Christian is exactly what it meant for our Lord Jesus: suffering, persecution, oppression, opposition when trying to do our Father's will. Our Lord always obeyed His Father's will under unfavorable conditions, and that definitely meant for Him [...]
There are a few instances in the Bible where those who have died are depicted as talking with others. Some will tell you these were actually people who came back to talk with people on earth. Others will tell you these are visions. What [...]
God did not “create” sin; it was as a result of Lucifer's (Satan) free will.The Bible traces the origin of sin back to the Garden of Eden.Genesis 1:26,27 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them [...]
A person may be thought of as prosperous when he is favored by God. Proverbs 22:1 reads, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.” Therefore, let us look at two persons whom [...]
The Nephilim were the children of the fallen angels and natural women. Genesis 6:4 (NASB), “The Nephilim (giants) were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God (fallen angels) came in to the daughters of men, and they [...]
Not everyone has the holy spirit, but only those whom God is calling out to be a people for His name (Acts 15:14). So, let us address the question: “If someone is begotten of God's holy spirit, then what happens to the holy spirit [...]
Revelation 21:1, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.”References to a “new heaven and a new earth” are found elsewhere in the Bible, [...]
The Bible does not give us details about the heavenly realms where God dwells. Why? There are several possible answers.One is that knowing too much about heaven could be a distraction to our commitment to God during this life. Heaven is part of a [...]
These prophecies had a literal fulfillment against three nations to the east of Israel: Ammon, Moab, and Edom. All three were close relatives of Israel. Ammon and Moab were direct decedents of Abraham’s nephew Lot. (See Genesis 19:30-38). While Edom descended from Esau, the [...]
"It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do [...]
The death of Jesus Christ secured a resurrection for all mankind. 1 Timothy 2:4-6, “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the [...]
There are no direct scriptures about proper or improper fasting foods nor about the duration of a fast. In the Bible, fasting was most often associated with three attitudes of heart. Most prominently, people fasted as part their repentance from sin. When Jonah told [...]
Matthew 6:19-21: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in [...]
