Should Christians Pray Against Their Enemies?
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlissou, a Christian from Lagos Nigeria asked; “Is it good to pray against enemies?” What a terrific yet direct question, Alissou asked. The answer to this question directly affects every Christian… even me. To put it more distinctly: Should Christians […]
Answering FreeAtheism.org’s ‘Theist Challenge’
Reading Time: 22 minutesLast week (week of March 6th), Artie the atheist at //freeatheism.org, entered a comment on one of my posts. Then not long afterwards, Artie emailed me with his, ‘Theist Challenge’ and insisted that the atheist position is the “justified” position […]
The Atheist’s Creation – Then You! (Part 2)
Reading Time: 3 minutesA two part series on the teaching of Atheism concerning the beginning of our universe and life. The Atheist’s Creation (Second of a two part series) Summary of Part 1 – Atheists Preaching Creation In the beginning there was nothing, nothing […]
The Atheist’s Creation – Then You!
Reading Time: 5 minutesA two part series on the teaching of Atheism concerning the beginning of our universe and life. The Atheist’s Creation (First of a two part series) In the beginning there was nothing, nothing at all and specifically God did not […]
Religion vs Christianity, is there a Difference?
Reading Time: 12 minutesOn Easter day (Sunday, March 27, 2016) I felt led to help people who want to understand how the Bible portrays the differences between religion and true Christianity (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23). So on that day I started […]
What is God’s Favor?
Reading Time: 4 minutesBisi from the Nigerian state of Lagos asked a wonderful question; “What is God’s favor?” Earning God’s Favor To many people, receiving God’s favor is something that they think must be earned by them. These people believe that they have […]
How Can One Worship God with All His Heart?
Reading Time: 5 minutesPresley from Douala, Cameroon asked me via email this great question; “How can one worship God with all his heart and really know that he has done so?” First let’s put Presley’s question in context with the Bible: Matthew 22:34-40 […]
Big Deal, Jesus Knew He’d be Resurrected
Reading Time: 8 minutes@AsmodeusDemon in Twitter tweeted to me concerning my article; “Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?” the following: “He didn’t do either given he knew he’d be resurrected. And also because he simply never existed.” Most […]
It is by Your Choice not by God’s Will
Reading Time: 2 minutesRomans 1:20-22 shows us examples of proof of God’s existence: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without […]
What is meant by the word ‘truth’ from a Christian point of view?
Reading Time: 9 minutesAlex sent to me the following email asking about ‘truth’ from a Christian perspective: Hello, Your website is interesting to me. Please could you help me with what is meant by the word ‘truth’ from a Christian point of view? […]
Why should we forgive people?
Reading Time: 2 minutesStephen via email asked me a great question; “Why should we forgive people?” In short, the Bible instructs us to forgive as the Lord forgave us: Colossians 3:13 Longer answer: God helps us grow in maturity and wisdom and heals […]
What about God’s Forgiveness?
Reading Time: 3 minutesMuragwa from Rwanda in email asked me to explain God’s forgiveness to him. God forgiving us, comes through His love for us and is by His amazing mercy and grace! All sin (our knowingly choosing to do something we shouldn’t […]
Are You Also an Atheist?
Reading Time: 2 minutesJimmy Thunder on YouTube made the comment to me; “you realise [sic] you’re also an atheist right? with regards to every single other deity except the one you’ve ‘chosen’” To answer Jimmy’s question; Jimmy you are wrong, I am not […]
A question about God, the Bible, Faith, and/or how to be Saved
Reading Time: 16 minutesDerrick sent me the following questions in email: I have a question about God, the Bible, Faith, and/or how to be Saved I’m struggling with my faith. All of my life I’ve been told that Jesus is what I should […]
How Can I Know a True Prophet from a False Prophet?
Reading Time: 9 minutesStephen from Lusaka, Zambia asked me in email; “How can I know a true prophet from a false prophet?” Today in this internet and television connected world more than ever it is highly important to know the difference between a […]
I Cannot Fathom that God is Non-Existent
Reading Time: 3 minutesI cannot fathom that God is non-existent due to the abundance of evidence supporting His existence i.e., laws of logic, physics, gravity, the universe, all life, etc. AND above all, the personal relationship I have with Him. Everyone who fathoms […]
Calling a Cat a Dog Doesn’t Make it a Dog
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) Throughout my lifetime (+50 years) each […]
What are the differences between holiness and righteousness?
Reading Time: 4 minutesGeorge 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 […]
How can I know God’s plan for my life?
Reading Time: 3 minutesTomiwa in email from the United Kingdom asked me, “How can I know the plan of God for my life?” This is a question many people think of yet per apathy often don’t follow through on finding out the answer. […]
What does “being born again” mean?
Reading Time: 4 minutesLydia 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 […]
Do you worship the one true God who allows babies to suffer?
Reading Time: 13 minutes@mrscientist on Twitter asked me a great question, “Do you worship the one true [G]od who lets babies suffer with bone cancer?” This great question is the type of question common among people who either want to really know God […]
How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?
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 […]
If Jesus really is God, why did He allow Himself to die on a cross?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAndrew 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 […]
Will My Sinning End after Accepting Jesus?
Reading Time: 4 minutesMartinho in email asked me a really great question: “If I have repented my sins, accepted Jesus as my Savior and pray that my sins will end, will I stop sinning?” You and I (and everyone else) sin. Sin is […]
Brittany Maynard: A Legacy of Death
Reading Time: 4 minutesEveryone puts their hope in something. Whatever you put your hope in determines the trajectory of your life. Hope is an action we choose to take and believe in. Where have you placed your hope? If you don’t take heed […]
What does salvation mean thoroughly?
Reading Time: 3 minutesJinnette 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 […]
Whose path are you on?
Reading Time: 2 minutesVictoria 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 […]
Can Atheists Account for the Laws of Nature?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAtheists cannot account for the laws of nature (even though atheists agree that they must exist), for such laws are inconsistent with the atheist’s naturalism. Yet the laws of nature are perfectly consistent with the Bible. We who believe in […]
Did Jesus say, “Come Follow My Rules?”
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost atheists and some people who claim to be a Christian, insist that being a Christian is about following a set of rules. Their claim is that by religiously following a set of defined rules/laws/commandments/etc. that is what being a […]
Does @FlyingFree333 follow what his Twitter bio lists about him?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor a few years @FlyingFree333 has been following me on Twitter. And he has asked a few good questions about God and the Bible which I’ve answered for him either in Tweets and/or here on my blog and YouTube. Yet […]
Do Absolute Moral Standards Exist?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAtheists insist that morality is subjective personal and that there are no absolute moral standards. Atheists insist that that each individual person sets their own moral standards and that society sets the standards for civil morality. Thus, atheists point to […]
Why did Mariam Ibrahim not deny being a Christian?
Reading Time: 4 minutesCurrent 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 […]
What’s God Going to Achieve by Sending Sinners to Hell?
Reading Time: 4 minutesSrinivas Vangala from YouTube asked the following questions: 1) If all Sinners are sent to Hell what [is] God is going to achieve from that? A) The Bible teaches that everyone is a sinner thus everyone including you and me […]
What is the Old Nature and New Nature?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan 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 […]
What Specified Works do Christians Depend Upon?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan, asked me in email an excellent question, “Do Christians depend upon Specified Works?” The good news everyone needs to understand is God’s great love for you provided to us Christ Jesus who did all that is needed for you […]
Who is He?
Reading Time: 2 minutesNasim, in email asked the question, “Who is He?” I hope this helps answer Nasim’s question. Who is God? Scripture plainly states that God the Father loved the world (you and me) so much that He sent His only begotten […]
Do we need to accept Jesus and follow His commands to receive eternal life?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan, via email asked me a great question; “Do we just need to accept Jesus and follow His commands so to be saved and ready to receive eternal life?” The answer to Juan’s question has two parts to it; good […]
Do I Deserve to go to Heaven?
Reading Time: 6 minutesDo 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 […]
Bless Those Who Seize Infants and Dash them Against Rocks? – Psalm 137:9
Reading Time: 6 minutes@FlyingFree333 from Twitter deeply relishes Psalm 137:9. @FlyingFree333 so delights in Psalm 137:9 that he creates false re-tweets (RT) from me about Psalm 137:9 and tweets them like they came from me. Yes, I wrote that he creates and tweets […]
God Demonstrates His Existence Empirically
Reading Time: 19 minutes@WarriorOfWriters in a YouTube personal email and @TheTomtomPiper on Twitter challenged me to show how God empirically demonstrated His existence. What a great challenge @WarriorOfWriters and @TheTomtomPiper posed to me! It really is a great challenge and yet is a […]
Does God Send People to Hell for Being Born in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?
Reading Time: 6 minutesAsking 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 […]
Does Suffering and Death Equate to God’s Non-Existence?
Reading Time: 6 minutes@RosaRubicondior from Twitter wrote an article on her blog (rosarubicondior.blogspot.com) titled, “Why Your God Doesn’t Exist” in which she equated God’s not taking action and stopping suffering and death to His non-existence. Rosa’s article really shows that she has not […]
Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?
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 […]
“The God Delusion” Changed My Life (part 3)
Reading Time: 23 minutesThis 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 […]
Why did God create Satan?
Reading Time: 7 minutes@DannyBrownLincs from Twitter asked: “IF it is all true, then God is responsible for EVERY action that Satan committed. Knowing what he’d do, and creating him anyway? This is a very honest question @DannyBrownLincs asked and I’m glad that he […]
Natural Marriage is a Lifelong Commitment
Reading Time: 10 minutesNatural Marriage is a Lifelong Commitment Natural Marriage is a lifelong commitment made between one man and one woman with God and made in the presence of God. After a man and a woman make wedding vows (promises) to each […]
“The God Delusion” Changed My Life (part 2)
Reading Time: 16 minutesThis 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 […]
The Christian Cross is Offensive!
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow you think about God profoundly impacts how you relate to God. Whether or not you believe in God or not, it is your choice in how you want to think and relate to God. If you think positively of […]
Why is it Important that Genesis is Right?
Reading Time: 9 minutes@robineccles on Twitter asked me, “why is it important that the first couple of chapters of the OT are right?” Robin asked a very good and very important question. Let’s determine why it matters that Genesis is correct. In fact, […]
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