Tag: salvation
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The Bible sometimes speaks of the same thing from different perspectives in time – past, present and future. For example, salvation is presented in the past, the present and the future. The emphasis is different depending on the perspective: With the resurrection, the future has invaded the present. We now…
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There is an interesting article here concerning the recent death of Scott Adams, creator of the popular “Dilbert” comic series (my second favorite after Calvin & Hobbes). There is some question over his end-of-life conversion to Christianity, whether it was legimitate or not and reigniting debates over the infamous Pascal’s…
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What is required for someone to be saved and enter eternal life? Just one thing – being born again in the New Testament sense. Jesus was emphatic in John 3:3 that one cannot enter the kingdom of God unless he is born again. He was also clear to tie this…
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Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is described in several Bible verses, notably in Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:28-30, and Luke 12:10. These passages state that while all sins can be forgiven, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or the age to come. How should…
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There is only one God. One entailment of divine unity is that all of the actions/operations of God outside himself are undivided. That is, every work of God is a work of all three Persons of the Trinity. The Trinity always act in concert although one Person will often take…
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This is a fascinating discussion. My hat’s off to both the skeptic (who is articulate, polite and patient) and the two Christians (who also are polite, articulate and patient) who are not afraid to wrestle with difficult questions.
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With medical advances, there are intriguing cases of people apparently being brought back from physical death and subsequently recounting a near-death experience (NDE). I am cautious about accepting the truth and reality of NDEs, especially because some people have confessed to making up NDEs. More importantly, not all NDEs have…
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University of North Carolina sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in 2005 published a massive study of the religious beliefs of teenagers. Their conclusion was that most of these teenagers adhered to a variation of Deism called moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD). This form of deism is certainly not limited…
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Christian Apologetics 