What are the differences between holiness and righteousness?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes George from Sierra Leone asked me a great question in email; “What are the differences between holiness and righteousness?” Holy is ontologically “separate”. Clean is ontologically “appropriate for cult”. Righteousness is “appropriate in covenant”. Uncleanness and sin remove the appropriateness for cult and covenant. Purification sacrifice recovers for holy and clean, and for humans also […]

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What does “being born again” mean?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Lydia from the United Kingdom asked me in email, “How can I be born again? Is it by something I sing or put on?” The Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:8-9 that “It is by grace (God’s gift) we have been saved and not by works (human effort).” Which goes to help answer Lydia’s question […]

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How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes @Gorooble from Twitter asked the question; “How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?” and went on and asked; “Why don’t pairs of Christians go into hospitals, pray, heal everybody?” Great questions from @Gorooble and I’ll even up the ante by asking about Matthew 18:19; “Why don’t pairs of Christians get together around the world […]

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If Jesus really is God, why did He allow Himself to die on a cross?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Andrew from Tanzania asked me in email, “If Jesus was really God, why did He not protect Himself and allow Himself to be put on a cross and die on the cross?” The question Andrew asked is a great question because at first thought, why wouldn’t someone who is extremely more powerful than the ones […]

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What does salvation mean thoroughly?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Jinnette in email asked me; “What does salvation mean thoroughly? Such a great question and one I’m sure many other people out there want to know the answer to as well. I hope the answer below helps Jinnette and you understand what salvation means. When God created everything, He said it was good (Read Genesis […]

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Whose path are you on?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Victoria in email asked me, “What does it mean, ‘Whose path are you on?’” What a great question! Basically there are only two paths a person can chose to be on; one path goes towards God and the second path goes away from God. Jesus boldly claimed, “I am the way, the truth, and the […]

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Why did Mariam Ibrahim not deny being a Christian?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Current as of June 23, 2014 Mariam Ibrahim, 27, refused to renounce her Christian faith in Sudanese court in May 2014, prompting a Muslim judge to sentence her to hang for apostasy. The case became an international cause, with several U.S. lawmakers and the State Department blasting the decision as barbaric. Sudan’s national news service […]

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What is the Old Nature and New Nature?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Juan asked me a great question in email; “What is the Old Nature and New Nature?” The Bible calls the ‘old nature’ sin or the flesh. The apostle Paul says that the law of sin dwells in our body (Romans 7:23) and he goes further and encourages us not to let sin control us in […]

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Do I Deserve to go to Heaven?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Do I Deserve to go to Heaven? This question I ask myself almost every day and sometimes multiple times a day. As I’ve gotten older, I find myself asking it more often. The answer is always the same. The answer I know each time before I ask myself yet I continue to find myself asking; […]

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Does God Send People to Hell for Being Born in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Asking specifically about the pre-18th century Australian aboriginals, @WarriorOfWriters in a YouTube personal email asked me; “What good God would allow all those before to burn eternally for being born in the wrong place at the wrong time without any form of revelation?” What a great question @WarriorOfWriters asked! In short, the answer is; No, […]

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Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?

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Reading Time: 10 minutes @GreedyIan from Twitter asked; “hey rather than dying for our sins, maybe Jesus died simply because he was nailed to a big wooden cross?” Actually @GreedyIan has asked a very good question and I’m glad that he asked it. What if Jesus Simply Died because He was Nailed to a Big Wooden Cross? Well, we […]

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“The God Delusion” Changed My Life (part 3)

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Reading Time: 23 minutes This is My Encounter with Richard Dawkins’ book; “The God Delusion” and how it changed my life. This is the story of how reading Richard Dawkins’ book, “The God Delusion” changed my life. As I was reading it, with each passing sentence I felt my faith growing stronger my in God’s promises. Basically, reading Richard […]

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