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Reading Time: 22 minutes Last 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 and that belief in Christ Jesus is not. This post is a compilation of Artie’s […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bisi 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 to do something in order to receive God’s favor… that they have to do lots […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Stephen 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 us when we forgive. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong (when you forgive […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jimmy 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 an Atheist. I have never been an Atheist nor will I ever be an Atheist. […]
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 year more people more often have been redefining definitions of institutions which for all millennia […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tomiwa 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. I’m glad that Tomiwa asked. Our Lord surely intends us to have, and readily to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Martinho 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 a term used in archery meaning, missing the mark. We sin when we chose to […]
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 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most 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 Christian is. Well, these people have obviously not read the Bible and what being a […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes For 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 @FlyingFree333 has taken to RT’ing some of my tweets out of context. He has even […]
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 […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Srinivas 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 deserve to go to Hell. (Romans 3:23) There are only two places someone can go […]
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; […]
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 read the Bible… or at least if she has read the Bible, that she does […]
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 […]
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, I believe the whole Bible is correct. I believe the Old Testament books and the […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes From Formspring I was asked by an anonymous questioner the following question; “Why doesn't your supposed god just abolish hell rather than wanting a blood sacrifice?” This anonymous questioner posed two very valid questions framed in one; Why doesn’t God just abolish hell? And What’s the significance of the blood sacrifice and death […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many atheists who claim that morals are subjective rather than objective often claim that stealing isn’t always wrong. In support of their claim that stealing isn’t always wrong, they bring up someone stealing food to eat because the person or the person’s family is hungry. For this reason atheists say then that stealing is sometimes […]
Reading Time: 11 minutes @GRIMACHU from Twitter says that morals are subjective (not absolute) and that we live within secular morality. Going on to say that the Bible has contractions in Luke 16:17 and Matthew 5:18-19 which undermines 'absolute morality' said to be within the Bible thus it retains the entire, vicious Old Testament laws as being binding today. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whose Definition of ‘Good’ do You Use? Does it ultimately matter if you are a “good” person or not? Only if God as described in the Holy Bible really exists and will judge you after your death does it certainly matter. So if God really does exist, shouldn’t you understand what being a “good” person […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Definition of Slavery “The word 'slavery' is such a powerful word today in our society because of the slavery reminded to us by those in rather recent United States history who had family members enslaved as a type of forced labor against their will. Scholars in the ANE have often abandoned the use of the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes joestfrancois from YouTube asks, “Was Abraham going to kill his son for your [G]od or not?” Reading the Bible in Context helps One Understand Truth It is clear for anyone reading the Bible in context what Abraham believed would happen and what he was planning on doing. It is a rather short chapter of history […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes autonerf from YouTube asks a number of good questions about the Bible (God’s Word). Why are there so many versions of God’s word today, and which version do you believe to be the most accurate? Why are there so many interpretations of the meaning of God’s word? Does God allow His word to be changed, […]