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• How Do You Effectively Respond to Malicious GOSSIP?

  Now & then you’ll come across a person who’s addicted to gossip & slander. Such people are toxic faultfinders who naturally try to draw you into their “choice morsels” of corrupt talk (Proverbs 18:8 & 26:22). For anyone who thinks gossip & slander are harmless and, besides, “everyone does it,” here are a handful of […]

• When Was the Church Corrupted by the IMMORTAL SOUL Doctrine?

  The Scriptures plainly teach that immortality and eternal life are only available through the gospel of Christ (2 Timothy 1:10; John 3:36). In other words, human beings do not intrinsically possess immortality apart from redemption in Christ, which is why we’re told to seek it (Romans 2:7). For the unrepentant, the Lord plainly declared that […]

• What Did the Jews and Early Christians Believe About Hell?

  The orthodox view concerning human damnation of both the Jews in the Old Testament period and the Christians of the New Testament period was literal everlasting destruction. This is obvious because every person used of God to write the Holy Scriptures adhered to everlasting destruction. This was the commonly accepted position of believers in these […]

• Paul “FULLY PROCLAIMED the Gospel,” Including About Hell

  Aside from Jesus Christ, Paul is by far the most important figure in the New Testament. Over half of the book of Acts, which is a biblical documentation of the early Church, is devoted to Paul’s exploits in ministry. About one third of the entire New Testament and nearly two thirds of the epistles were […]

• The Soul is NOT IMMORTAL Apart From Redemption in Christ

  Nowhere does the Bible state that the human soul, once created, is immortal and can never die. The Hebrew word for “soul” (or “being” or “life”) is nephesh, which appears over 750 times in the Old Testament; the Greek word for “soul,” psuche, appears over 100 times in the New Testament. These over 850 references […]

• The LANGUAGE OF DESTRUCTION Concerning Human Damnation

  The apostle Paul summed up the whole matter of people’s reward for sin when he wrote:  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 Could it be stated any plainer? The wages for sin is shown to be death; and eternal […]

• Satan’s Greatest LIE Is the Immortal Soul Apart-From-Christ

  You can search in vain all you want, but you’ll find no passage in the Bible saying that human beings possess immortality apart from redemption in Christ. The Bible teaches that God alone has immortality in the absolute sense (1 Timothy 6:16) and he offers it to people only through the gospel: “… Christ Jesus, […]

• What’s the Diff Between ARMINIANISM and CALVINISM?

  Generally speaking, Arminianism is pro-freewill whereas Calvinism supports determinism and therefore opposes freewill. Personally, while I’ll humbly consider arguments from either perspective, all that’s relevant is what the truth is; that is, what God’s Word clearly and consistently teaches based on the foundation of sound hermeneutics. Now consider this enlightening verse: This day I call […]

• Should “THERE IS NO ONE WHO SEEKS GOD” Be Taken Literally?

  Paul was quoting two psalm texts in that particular verse, Psalm 14:1-3 and 53:1-3. Let’s read the whole passage from Romans:  10As it is written:  “There is no one righteous, not even one;       11there is no one who understands;         there is no one who seeks God. 12All have turned […]

• Isn’t Calling a Person a “LIVING SOUL” Redundant?

  This question refers to the passage in the first book of the Bible that describes precisely how God created human beings: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (chay nephesh). Genesis 2:7 (KJV) The LORD […]