Tag: God
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Jesus is God (Second Person of the Trinity)
The “HANDS” acronym was created by Drs Robert M. Bowman & Ed Komoszewski, can be found in their books 1.) The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense and 2.) Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ. The Scriptures referenced in the chart below are examples from a larger…
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Why Christianity?
Why should anyone of a quest for truth consider Christianity, first and foremost? Per Dr. Craig Hazen, Director of Christian Apologetics at Biola, here are the 4 reasons why Christianity is the worldview you should pursue first: 1) Christianity is testable, 2) Salvation is a free gift, 3) Christianity has a terrific worldview fit, and…
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An Educational Treasure
Do you or a loved-one have earnest questions concerning the reliability of the Bible? If so, please do not suppress these queries, nor place them on the “back burner.” Asking questions is incredibly important! Pursuing truth, in combination with investigating the truth claims we hear/read daily online, is something we should prioritize — all of…
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In Richard Rohr’s Own Words
Compiled by Meridith BlackContact: gal220black@gmail.comGoogle Document (Landscape)Google Document (Portrait)Full 86-page Research Document “Jesus was objectively Christ from his birth in Bethlehem, his conception in Nazareth, just like you and I are objectively Christ.”🚩 –Richard Rohr Center for Action and Contemplation. 2019. Jesus, Incarnation, and The Christ Resurrection. cac.org. https://cac.org/podcasts/1-jesus-incarnation-and-the-christ-resurrection/. This side-by-side chart was compiled with…
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Early Christian and Non-Christian Attestations about Jesus
“Even if you silenced the voices of the New Testament authors, you would still have a robust description of Jesus and his followers from ancient, hostile non-Christian voices in the fallout…There are more non-Christian voices in this extrabiblical collection (ninety-two historical figures) than Christian ones, and regardless of their social stature, ethnicity, motivation, or region,…
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Why Hell?
Friends, we wouldn’t go to Hell because we don’t choose Jesus. We go to Hell because we are sinners. Sin separates us from a Holy God. And since God is good (Mk 12), God is perfectly just. We would deserve Hell. In The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl, Koukl makes this point by illustrating…
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The Gospel According to Mark: Jesus is God
“Why does this man speak like that? He (Jesus) is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Mark 2:7📕 Mark is thought by numerous scholars to be the earliest of the four gospel accounts recorded with “internal and external data pointing to Rome as the place of composition around the mid-to-late 50’s.”(1) With Jesus’s…
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“Gospel-Centered?”
Food for thought, Christians: When the Magicians documented in Acts 19 began worshipping Jesus, they didn’t incorporate magic back into their new way of living (ie. “Gospel-Centered Magic”). Instead, they left magic behind! Per the ESV Study Bible, they discarded nearly $6M of materials! Friends, how is the #Enneagram any different? History shows that the…
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The Trinity: A Succinct Summary
What or who is the #Trinity? Dr. James White, author of “The Forgotten Trinity as well as director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, explains that “The doctrine of the Trinity is simply that there is one eternal being of God – indivisible, infinite. This one being of God is shared by three co-equal, co-eternal persons,…
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Is the Enneagram Christian? Fast Facts to Consider and Share!
Honest question: If restaurants & grocery stores recall food for the possibility of food poisoning, why don’t Christian publishers humbly recall books they’ve printed which promote poisonous teaching contrary to historic, biblical Christianity? 📙For example, why would two respected Christian publishing companies (Zondervan and IVP) choose to print literature promoting verifiably non-Christian programming? Given that…
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Psalm 22: How Does it End?
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?” (Psalm 22:1) Sisters, this song sung by God’s people praises God for the vindication of the innocent sufferer. When Jesus was hanging upon the cross in A.D. 30 or 33, He quoted the…
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Good Friday: Psalm 22 and Mark 15
Question: Have you ever wondered why Jesus exclaimed, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” before yielding His spirit to the Father? In order to adequately address this heartfelt query, we need to highlight an important cultural detail concerning how scripture was both memorized and shared around AD 30. Per numerous scholars, if…
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