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General Questions: 1.     If Jesus is God, why didn’t God say plainly in His Word that Jesus was God the Son? Why does He give all male believers the same title as Jesus, the son of God? God’s intent is never to confuse or distort truth. Given that “God the Son” is not written in the Bible, Jesus is not God the Son. As the Son of God, Jesus opened the way for all believers to become exactly like  Jesus one day, conformed to his image. One way God reveals this in His Word is b

Note: While the commentary is mine, I owe many of the Scripture references to the ideas of Kevin Williams in his book, "Nothing Merciful Than Reincarnation" (2019). A.             John 9:1-3 “ As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi,  who sinned,  this man or his parents, that he was born blind ?’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him .’” If reincarnatio

Revelation 20:1-15, Revelation 21:1 reads: “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.  2  He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years .  3  He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. 4  I saw

A.    Malachi 4:5  “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet   before  the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” If God meant He would send someone LIKE Elijah before the day of the Lord, why didn’t He say so? Why did He simply say He will send Elijah? If this is best to not interpret literally, why not? Maybe John the Baptist is literally Elijah. (Williams, 2019a) B.    Luke 1:17 “…and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah,  to turn the hearts of the

Introduction Given true salvation’s incredibly high standard: that of a person becoming like Christ, sinless and filled with God, loving God and loving others – how could universal salvation be possible? What is more, this salvation is dependent on people putting their faith in Christ and being filled with the Holy Spirit. So many have died without putting their faith in Christ – already before examining Scripture, universal salvation seems impossible. Section 4 of this blog,

Trinitarian Christianity claims that who God is is 3 male persons in 1, all fully God. Yet God says His image in Genesis 1-2 is male and female, 2 persons in 1, when God created Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:26-28 says, 26”  Then God said, “Let us make mankind  in our image, in our likeness , so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27  So God created

A.        Micah 5:2 “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” Jesus is “from of old, from ancient days." He clearly existed before his birth in Bethlehem. John 1:29-30 “The next day he [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he

Does the Bible really say that marriage and, by extension, family will not continue in any form in the new heaven and earth? Is that what Jesus meant in his conversations with the Sadducees on this topic? If a man and woman united in marriage uniquely reflects the image of God, how could this image not continue for eternity? Could there be marriage and family in the new heaven and new earth? I believe when God says He will restore ALL things in Acts 3:21, He means ALL. Acts 3

1.     The Hypostatic Union: doesn’t the hypostatic union from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. describe aptly Christ as man and God? The Hypostatic Union Definition from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. : Christ has two natures, human and divine, united in one person without confusion, without change, without division, without separation (Caston, 2023). In addition to the fact that this definition breaks the laws of logic given us to by God, this does not prove Jesus

Is there biblical evidence that Jesus had any other past lives? A.    Was Jesus God’s “only” son? John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son , that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” “Only”, of course, means “exclusively” – the only one. How can this be true if God called others His “son” in Scripture? What made Jesus unique – the “only Son”? For example, in psalm 2:7 David says, “I will tell of the decree: the Lord s

A.    A God of Justice God is both just and loving. Justice is not something distinct from love but a part of it. In this section I suggest that God’s judgment is always ultimately corrective and restorative. After all, God is Love (1 John 4:8), but the Bible never says God is justice, rather, He acts justly out of His love. “Everywhere,” says St. Basil, “Scripture connects God’s justice with his compassions.” (Hom. In Ps. 116.5) (Allin, 2015) “A God of truth, and without ini

1.         God reveals Himself to be, by nature, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, perfect, unable to be tempted, unchanging, a Spirit not a man, the One worshipped not the worshipper, the One served not the servant, and fully independent.  2.         Jesus is now perfect by what he suffered. Besides being perfect, Jesus shares none of those characteristics with God, and there are no verses that explicitly (or, I think, implicitly) state he ever will.  3.         To prove

How was Jesus able to be a perfect sacrifice for the world? How did he have the strength to accomplish what he did on the cross? 1.     David was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14, Act 13:22). Unlike in the life of Adam, we see in the life of David the foundations of the kind of man who could be Christ: one who sought the Lord with all of his heart, repented when confronted with sin (Psalm 51), and desired God above all else (Psalm 27:4). David loved and worshipped

Women: Apostles, Leaders, and Teachers Given the Holy Spirit and the Father are 2 distinct persons, though both fully God, the Bible reveals that the Holy Spirit and the Father do have different, but equal, roles. This is evidenced throughout the Bible as the Father is described as acting in certain ways and the Spirit is described in acting in other ways. Nevertheless, the Father and the Spirit are one (Deuteronomy 6:4), and the different roles they have in the Bible in no w

“One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.” Psalm 27:4 King David, the author of this Psalm, only asks “one thing” from the Lord: to be in the Lord’s presence, to worship Him, and to seek Him. Who can join King David in honestly praying to God that this is the “one thing” they desire? In Psalm 73, David writes in verse 25, “Whom have i

1.     The type of reincarnation believed in Hindu, Buddhist, and other religions is decidedly unbiblical. However, reincarnation is biblical and a means by which God sanctifies His people as shown most notably in the person of Jesus, similar to the Catholic doctrine of purgatory. Universal reincarnation exists. The gospel message of grace and justification by faith does not change. The New Testament is clear that any Christian, upon death, goes to be immediately with Jesus i

The Final Word on Universal Salvation I repeat some verses here to emphasize the strong biblical evidence for universal salvation. “He will not always accuse,  nor will he harbor his anger forever …” Psalm 103:9 If eternal torment was true, his anger would be harbored forever. “I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry,  for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created.” Isaiah 57:16 If eternal torment were true, He would be always

1.     While the Holy Spirit as Mother is not explicit in Scripture, it is implicit. God revealed Himself as a Father. Notably, Jesus did not reveal God to be “like a Father”. He revealed him to be “ the  Father”. That is who He is. Why couldn’t the Holy Spirit be God the  Mother? God declared from Genesis that his image is male and female in a marriage relationship, and the One who declares that Jesus reveals who He is – the Father. 2. There is great biblical evidence that t

I have been asked if I think believing Jesus is God, if he is not, is a salvation issue, so I thought this would be important to address. The Church, overall, has, I think, been deceived on the point of Jesus’ deity. I was deceived concerning Jesus’ deity for most of my life. Trinitarian Christians I know have an incredible heart for God: their mind is confused like mine was, I think, on this issue.  I do not believe God sees this as a salvation issue because this is not a he

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