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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, who Jesus was, 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

While Christians universally agree that sanctification, or holiness, is one of the goals of the Christian life, and that a Christian’s eternal state will be sinless, there are varying perspectives on how a Christian will become sinless. Protestants generally believe that upon death, a Christian, regardless of if they are “perfected” or “sinless”, goes straight to heaven and enters God’s presence. Catholics believe that when a person dies, God immediately judges them and deter

There is historical evidence that some of the earliest Christians thought the Holy Spirit was feminine. The church father Jerome refers to the Holy Spirit as Mother in his writings. Another church father, Epiphanius, states that the Holy Spirit is “a Female Being”. The Pseudo-Clementines, a work named after Clement of Rome, speaks of the Jewish Christian idea of the Holy Spirit as feminine, specifically stating that “Wisdom”, as described in Proverbs, is the Holy Spirit. The

Christians today universally believe that Jesus was sinless his whole life, and the majority Church believe that Jesus is God. But is this what the New Testament reveals? Did the apostles believe Jesus to be sinless his whole life? What about Jesus himself? If Jesus was actually sinless his whole life, there are some passages that are difficult to explain. Consider the following: 1. Jesus was sanctified. The Father sanctified him and he sanctified himself. John 10:36 says,

Does what the Bible says about life after death indicate universal reincarnation could not be possible? There is an intermediate state between death and the final resurrection when Jesus returns. This is shown in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). In “Hades”, this intermediate state, Lazarus and Abraham are comforted and the sinful rich man is tormented. There is memory of the past for those in this parable. This state also involves fellowship with Chris

If the Holy Spirit is God the Mother, why… 1. Why isn’t the Holy Spirit as Mother explicitly in Scripture? I would actually argue that, upon studying Scripture, it is explicitly in Scripture, as I will show. Yes, there is not explicit declaration that the Holy Spirit is God the Mother in the Protestant Bible (there is one in the Catholic bible in Solomon’s Wisdom books in some translations), but God declares from the beginning that His image is male and female (Genesis

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

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

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

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). Introduction: The Bible does not talk much about universal reincarnation though, as already shown, the Bible reveals that reincarnation is not unbiblical and God used reincarnation in the life of Jesus, Elijah, and Eve. If universal reincarnation exists, God clearly did not want it to be a focus. A. Jo

1. The type of reincarnation believed in Hindu, Buddhist, and other religions is decidedly unbiblical. 2. God may use reincarnation to give the lost multiple opportunities to be saved. God is all about everyone being saved (1 Timothy 2:4), so reincarnation is not inconsistent with His character. The Bible nowhere contradicts the existence of reincarnation. If God does not use universal reincarnation, as there is not certain biblical proof of universal reincarnati

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

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

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

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