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“Word” of Knowledge/Wisdom
… and to cleanse us from ALL Unrighteousness – A Thought on Salvation
2 Things from 4 Things about Western Christianity that screwed me up (But It’s Never too late to work on It)
3 Quotes from “Should Christians Be Encouraged to Arm Themselves?”
5 Biblical Reasons for The Innocency of Infants
5 Bullet Points about Open Theism in the Bible
5 Reasons to keep The Sabbath
75 Scripture Warnings against drinking of Alcohol
A Call to Backsliders
A Concern to steward Our Mouths
A Concise Study on the Words “Proginóskó” and “Prognósis”
A Dilemma for Calvinists
A Few basic Truths we all need to know
A Jewish Understanding of God
A Life of Holiness is A Matter of Faith
A Long Definition of Faith
A Needle and A Thread
A Pentecostal Warning against the Prosperity Gospel
A Perfect World ?
A Possible Reason is not The Necessary Reason: Fallen Human Nature
A Reason for The Virgin Birth
A Seeking Saviour and A Seeking Sinner are Bound to meet
A Summary of “Genuine Worship”
A Thought on Young People dropping out of Faith
A Time to Repent
Aaron was punsihed for making The Golden Calf
Abortion in Early Jewish and Christian Theology
Accountancy
Adam Clarke on the Omniscience of God
Additional Proof of The Personality of The Holy Spirit
Adrian Rogers on Romans Chapter 9
Advantage and Superiority of Open Theism over Closed Theism
Against Scoffing and Calling Names
Alternative Interpretation of Alpha & Omega
American Culture shapes how Americans read the Bible
An Apology for Open Theism
An Example of Unwarranted Theological Speculation: Divine Timelessness
An Explanation of 1 Peter 3:21 from Experience
An Explanation of Public Justice
An Open View on Hell
An Overview of The Book of Job
Anathemas in Church Councils
Annihilationism
Any One Form of Sin Persisted In is Fatal to the Soul
Apostle John versus Oneness
Applauding Speakers or Singers
Are Babies Sinful or Innocent? How does One become A Sinner?
Are you A Christian Cannibal?
Are you really a family member?
Argument against Penal Substitution and in Defence of the Vicarious Governmental Atonement
Argument for The Necessity of The Atonement
As Many as were ordained to Eternal Life believed
Assurances of Pardon
Augustine & the Donatists
Augustine & Time
Augustine claims that believing God changes and acts in Sequence is Childish
Augustine’s Conversion exposed
Augustine: Gnostic Heretic and Corruptor of The Church
Augustinian Original Sin
Augustinian Original Sin Attacked
Augustinian Original Sin Introduction
Augustinian Original Sin Old
Be Ye Perfect
Because Of
Before The Foundation of The World
Begin at The Beginning
Belt on Anselm’s View of the Atonement, Justice, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
Benefits to speaking in Tongues
Biblical Prophecy: Two Kinds: Intentional vs Coincidental
Blood and Oil
Boast Worthy ?
Born Dead ?
Bruce Ware’s Comment on King Hezekiah’s Illness refuted
Building Desire for Evangelism
By Nature Children of Wrath
By the Grace of God I am what I am
Cain’s Contradiction
Calvinism’s Inconsistency Revealed
Calvinism’s Weird Sovereignty Problems
Calvinist Contradiction: Double Jeopardy
Can a Holy Spirit filled Believer lose His Salvation? Are We not sealed by the Holy Ghost?
Can You choose Not to read ?
Cancelling Debts
Catherine Booth on Jesus obeying for us
Charles Finney against Anti-Intellectualism
Chris Fisher on Communism in Acts
Chris Fisher on Eternal Security
Chris Sarno Sermons
Christ The Substitute
Christian cliches – all sins are equal
Christmas Blues
Christopher Fisher on John Cassian’s Literalism
Church and Truth
Circumcision
Commentary on Judges 10:13-16
Conditional Security
Contra Women preaching in The Church
Control
Cornelius’ Household received Suddenly
Corpse-like Dead ?
Crosstheology on Romans 9
Cultural Idioms, Anachronisms and Euphemisms
Declaring The End from The Beginning
Depravity, Sin, Guilt – an Illustration
Devoted to Fellowship
Did Bathsheba seduce David?
Did Christ endure The Exact Penalty of The Law ?
Did Christ pray to be delivered from Crucifixion ?
Did Esau want to Repent of selling His Birthright?
Did God lie in Genesis 18:12-13?
Did John Wesley teach or deny the Imputed Righteousness of Christ?
Different Forms of Grace – A Reply to William Birch and Leighton Flowers
Disabled from Birth by God’s Design ?
Disapproving God’s Plan
Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies is a Necessity, in Order to Escape the Dreaded System of Necessity
Divine Vulnerability
Do We Have A Sinful Nature From Birth?
Do You worship The Work ?
Does God Bring About the Abuse of Children for His own Glory ?
Does God Have Libertarian Free Will ?
Does God know all Possible Futures?
Does God Love or Hate Sinners? Is God’s Love Conditional or Unconditional?
Does John 17:3 teach Unitarianism ?
Does John 3:5 teach about Water Baptism? Does It teach that Water Baptism is Salvific?
Does Regeneration precede Faith? by Leighton Flowers
Does Romans 3 teach That All are Sinners ?
Does Romans 5 teach that Sin is imputed to all Descendants of Adam?
Does Romans 7 describe the Christian Life ?
Does the Bible teach Open Theism ?
Does The Lord’s Prayer Defend Daily Sinning ?
Does The Mercy of God remove The Necessity of The Atonement ?
Does The Repentance of Man remove The Necessity of The Atonement ?
Donald C. Stamp on Election
Dying You shall die
Ecclesiastes – The Theme of Joy
Echad
Ehrman on Constantine
Elijah was A Man just Like Us
Elseth on Genesis 1
Email on God’s Sovereignty
Embracing a Joseph-Like Attitude!
Ephesians 1: “He chose us to be in Him” or “He chose us in Him?”
Essential Open Theism
Eternal Promises
Eternal Security & The Book of Hebrews
Eternal Security & The Book of Jude
Evangelism is Not a Spiritual Gift
Excerpts from “A Christian Humanist Manifesto” by Roger Olson
Excerpts from “The Battle of the Shepherds for Man’s Allegiance”
Exhortation to Evangelism
Exodus 3:18 – Open Theism or Classical Theism?
Exodus in Biblical Prolepsis, Etiology and Eschatology Paper
Failed Prophecy of Tyre
Faith & Repentance are Choices
Faith is A Choice
Fallacy – Arminianism entails Salvation by “Inherent Ability”
Foreknowledge and The Unbeliever
Forgiveness brings Freedom
Frederick’s Experiment – Conclusion
Free Will & God’s Expectations
Free Will and Sovereignty by Christopher Fisher
Future Sins are Not Automatically Forgiven
Gary Yamasaki on Narrative Reading versus Systematic Reading
Gay “Marriage” and Homosexuality
God Begrudgingly appoints a King
God can speak
God chooses according to The Heart
God created Gift of Tongues
God does not change ?
God does not have Someone for You
God gives Undeserved Grace through Faith to the Humble
God Hates Sinners
God is Love
God is Sovereign over Free Will
God is True and Faithful
God makes the Mute
God uses Cannibalism as a Weapon
God visits 2 Prostitutes – The Parable of The 2 Prostitutes
God’s Garbage Man
God’s Lordship and Man’s Free Will
God’s Control of the Future is Not Exhaustive
God’s Undisputed, Holy Character
Going To or Being The
Gomarus learns from Arminius in Debate
Gordon C. Olson – Sharing your Faith Series (Moral Government Theology)
Gordon Olson on Eternal Security & Justification
Gossip
Governmental Theory of The Atonement
Greg Perry on Repentance
Gregory Boyd on God as the Cause
Gregory Boyd on Peter’s Denial
Gregory Boyd on Romans Chapter 9
Gregory Boyd on the Book of Revelation
Growing in Knowing the Lord
Guessing the Date of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Hamilton on Genesis 6
Have Humans lost the Image of God ?
His Workmanship
Hodges on Augustine versus the Donatists
Holy Spirit Defense
Holy Spirit singing
How Augustinians misrepresent Pelagianism
How Calvinism and Pantheism redefine Good and Evil
How do you respond to Deuteronomy 30:16–23?
How does an Open Theist explain all the Prophecies fulfilled in the Life of Jesus ?
How Omniscience does Not conflict with Open Theism
How People Misunderstand Open Theism
How Revelation 3:20 creates a Dilemma for Calvinism
How Slander may turn into Worship
How The Salvation of Cornelius refutes Calvinism
How to Change your Heart
How to deal with the Devil and His Demons
How To Preach Without Converting Anybody
How To Seek Theological Truth
How Yahweh took Responsibility
Impenitence is Man’s Choice
In Defense of Holiness by Leighton Flowers
In The Likeness of Sinful Flesh
In The Pains that Jesus bore
Infallible vs Fallible Prophecy
Injustice
Irenaeus explains Tradition
Irreducible Complexity in The Bible
Is 1 Peter written to Jewish or Gentile Believers ?
Is God A Tyrant, is He The Author of Sin and does He have a Secret Will?
Is God ever Surprised?
Is Irresistible Grace Compatible with The Elect coming to Christ Freely ?
Is It Personal ?
Is Sanctification A Process ?
Is Street Preaching An Effective Evangelism Method?
Is the Gospel Necessary to Calvinism ?
Is The Open View The Only View that is Compatible with The Incarnation ?
Is the Will always determined by the Strongest Motive ?
Isn’t God “changing His Mind” an Anthropomorphism?
Jacob Prasch on Romans Chapter 9
Jacques More explains Elect means Fit
Jacques More on Saul
James Dunn’s Christology of The Gospel of John
Jamie RA Gerrard on God’s Testings
Jeremiah 11:11 explained
Jeroboam made Israel to sin
Jesse Morrell on the Debate between Calvinists, Arminians and Open Theists
Jesus and the Washing of Feet: Three Things we can learn
Jesus cannot heal all
Jesus condemned Scribes who tried to guilt People into giving Money
Jesus did Not die for Calvinists ?
Jesus Did Not Overturn The Law
Jesus preached The Coming Kingdom of God
Jesus preaches against the Temple Leaders
Jesus the Risen Saviour saves from Sin
Jesus will be A Man Forever
Jesus Will Indeed Come Back One of These Days!
Jesus’ Revolution on God’s Nature
Job’s Children & The Resurrection
John Bevere – Undercover Notes
John Day and the Bible on the Divine Council
John Piper on The Book of Life
John Piper’s False Prophecy Assumptions
John Sanders on Anthropomorphisms
John Wesley’s warning against Imputed Righteousness
Jonah 3:10 Commentary
Judas was Chosen
Judas Was Not Predestined or Foreknown to Betray Christ
Just An Old Fashion Love Song
Justification
Justification
Kaminsky on Personal Omniscience
Kerrigan Skelly on Calvinists
Kindelberger on Practical Open Theism
King David said “In sin did my MOTHER conceive me”, but it’s no support for a sinful nature Ps. 51:5
King David the Presentist
King Hezekiah – A Flexible Future
Known to God from Eternity are all His Works
Leighton Flowers on a Calvinist False Dilemma
Leighton Flowers on Mankind’s Ability to respond to God
Let go of your Sin or Perish
Light-Bulbs make Bad Hammers
Limited Atonement
Links
Living What We believe
Lorenzo Dow McCabe on Ecbatic and Telic Prophecies
Losing Jesus
Love is (Demonstrated by Our) Obedience
Man and his Quest for Satisfaction and God
Man is superior to Animals but he is subordinate to God
Man walks into Church with Gun, walks out with God
Marriage Sermon
Mary, Mother of us All
Matthew’s Subversive Genealogy of Jesus
Mean What You Say
Menu for Non-Christians
Micah Armstrong on Romans 6
Monroe Questions God’s Control of Her Life
Moral Choice / Physical Condition
Moral Influence Theory
Moral Seed
More on how God operates Prophecy
Mountaintop Theology
Mullins on the End of Time
Musing on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
My Experience in Cameroon
Mystery Cults and Baptism
Nicer than God
Nicolaitans
Now I know
Obedience Required to receive The Baptism in The Holy Spirit
Omniscience
Omniscience in the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach
On Christian Perfection
On John Piper’s Description of Augustine’s Conversion
On Judas and Ehrman
On the Baptism and Fasting of our Lord Jesus
On the Governmental View and Gethsemane
Open Theism
Open Theism Additional Links
Open Theism and 1 Samuel
Open Theism and Evangelizing the Lost
Open Theism Videos
Open Theist comes to the Realization that God is not to blame
Open Theist Richard Watson
Operations of The Gifts of Healings
Original Sin: from Genesis to Revelation ?
Over 11,000 Verses that reveal God changes His Mind
Parables of Purification
Paraphrase of The Beatitudes
Paris Reidhead on Repentance and Sin
Paul preached to Gentiles in Synagogues
Paul tried to get Support from the Roman Christians
Pentecostal People are Orthodox
Peter’s Denial explained
Phoebe Palmer on Christian Perfection
Pilgram Marpeck’s Arguments against Common Views of Sin during the 16th Century
Pistos – Faithful
Platonic Influence on Christianity
Poems
Post-Tribulation Rapture
Power and Love in the Blueprint and Warfare Worldviews
Prayer is giving God Permission
Preemptive Forgiveness (The first saying from the cross)
Preken
Pro Women preaching in The Church
Prooftexts for God not getting What He wants
Proper Relationship with God – The Foundation for All Other Relationships
Prosperity Gospel
Prostration
Proverbs are not Overriding Rules
Psalm 139:16 screams out against Calvinism
Psalm 33 does Not teach Calvinism
Psalm 51:5
Psalm 58:3
Pure in Heart
Questioning Omnipresence
Quotes by Other Theologians
Racism
Ransom Theory
Read The Bible in One Year
Reasons For Christians to Reject the “Eternal Now” Philosophy – Excerpts
Redemption and Salvation in The Book of Tobit
Reese Watt explains Revelation 14:9-11
Reformed – In What Sense ?
Refutation of Norman Geisler on Job 36:4
Refutation to Limited Atonement
Refuting the False Antinomian Gospel of Justification in Sin by Dead Faith
Rejected? Misunderstood? Get Used to It!
Repent is a Figure of Speech
Repentance is Man’s Choice
Response to James White on the Atonement
Rest from Condemnation
Rest from Desire
Rethinking Transcendence
Revelation 13:8 Commentary
Richard Baxter on The Atonement
Richard Rice against Voluntary Nescience
Richard Rice on Disinterested Benevolence
Richard Rice on Israel’s Election
Richard Rice on Open Theism
Richard Watson on Man’s Free Will and God’s Timelessness, Immutability, Foreknowledge and Sovereignty
Righteous Father
Righteousness
Roger Olson on the Cosmic Dance
Romans 9
Romans 9 Menu
Romans 9 Old
Sabbath as The Day of Rest and Hope
Salvation Benefits in the Book of Hebrews
Sanctification is NOT A Process
Sanders on Abraham’s Test
Satan and the Corruption of Nature: Six Arguments
Scripture’s Truth exposes Scripture’s Falsehoods
Seasons
Self Serving Grace?
Sermon Jams
Sermons
Sermons by Others
Short Disproval of The TULIP
Sickness is A Result of The Fall
Sin is Not Natural
Sin No More
Sin, Reprobation and Foreknowledge: the Calvinists’ Attempt to have their Cake and eat it too
Sinful Nature
Sinful Nature Menu
Singing in The First Person
Sinner’s Prayer
Sins are Situational
Sins of Ignorance
Six Theses of The Warfare Worldview
Sola Fide
Sola Gratia
Sola Scriptura
Solas
Soli Deo Gloria
Solus Christus
Some Hints and Suggestions for Personal Work
Some Passages that speak of Trinitarianism:
Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in Tongues while sinning
Spiritual Gifts are for Today
Stay Plugged In
Store
Storehouse Tithing
Striving to Bridle The Tongue and Striving to Live Sinlessly
Summary of Bible History
Summary of Romans
Swearing Oaths
Synergism
Take Heed
Tertullian offers a Free Will Defense to Theodicy
Text for Evangelistic Crusade
That takes All My Cares away
That takes All My Excuses away
The “Hidden Will” of The Father Concerning Predestination
The ‘Great Indignation’ against Israel (2 Kings 3:27)
The Acts of the Disputation with Manes
The alternative Meaning of El-Shaddai
The Antichrist
The Baker Illustrated Handbook on the Grace of God in Romans 9
The Beauty of Christmas
The Beauty of our Humanity
The Beloved Disciple
The Blasphemy Argument
The Burden of The Lord
The Calvinist God: The Solution to The Problems He decreed
The Command of The Saviour
The Conscience and the Governmental Atonement View in Relation to Evangelism
The Cross in Prophecy – “Knowing That His Hour Had Come”
The Development of the Doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary Paper
The Devolution of The Sainthood
The Difference between Natural Attributes and Voluntary Attributes
The Divinity of the Holy Spirit
The Doctrines of Disgrace
The Early Church on Corporate and Not Unconditional Election
The Earnest of The Spirit
The Enforcement of / Consequences in Moral Government
The Extent of The Atonement
The Food Laws in Mark 7
The Full Gospel Intellectual Triumphalism Paper
The Gospel & Repentance
The Gospel as A Specific Genre of Literature
The Gospel of Babies
The Governmental Theory of The Atonement according to Hugo Grotius
The Governmental View of Imputed Righteousness
The Greater Healing
The Hardening of The Heart Explained
The Hebrew Prophets expected An Atonement
The Hierarchy of Understanding God
The Holy Spirit’s Presence
The Holy Spirit’s Work during The Millennium
The Implications of God’s Anger towards Rebellious People
The Importance of Accountability
The Importance of Receiving The Baptism in The Holy Spirit
The Initial Physical Evidence of The Baptism in The Holy Spirit
The Inspired Scriptures are Sufficient to Grant Mankind The Understanding for Salvation
The Isolation Chamber
The Jews believed in Inherited Salvation
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
The Law of Love
The Limits of Omniscience paper
The Master will Judge
The Moabites thwart God
The Moral Argument
The Moral Exemplar Theory
The Mystical Servants of Humanity
The Nobody is Perfect Myth
The Origin of Moral Character
The Privilege of being a Christian
The Prodigal Son
The Purging Spirit of Holiness
The Rephaim as an Ethnic Group and their Relationship to the Underworld Rephaim
The Royal Carriage Driver
The Songs of Revelation
The Story of Nineveh – When God and Man repented
The Superiority of The Governmental Theory of The Atonement
The Three Choices of God: Divine Election made Simple
The Trick of Misdirection
The Trinity
The Trinity – Eternal Existence
The Trinity – Faithfulness or Unchangeableness
The Trinity – Holiness
The Trinity – Love
The Trinity – Loving-Kindness and Mercy
The Trinity – Omnipotence
The Trinity – Omniscience
The Trinity – Open Theism
The Trinity – Personalities
The Trinity – Righteousness
The Trinity – Truthfulness
The Trinity – Wisdom
The Trinity in Sequence
The Trinity Logically Explained
The Trinity Personalities Menu
The Trinity Righteousness Menu
The Ultimate Triumph
The Urgent Need to Understand Moral Agency
The Warfare Worldview
The “Outright Disaster” of the Augustinian-Calvinist Formulation of Election
Theist and Atheist misunderstand the Jewish Notion of Prophecy
Theology that Accounts for Terrorism
These Signs shall follow Them that believe
This Day Have I Begotten Thee
Thoughts on Salvation
Timelessness as Non-Concept
To drink or Not to drink ?
Tongues – A Sign of Judgement
Tongues for A Sign
Tongues for Prayer
Tongues shall cease when Jesus comes
Touchstone
Truth, truth & “orthodoxy”
Two by Two
Unbelief is Man’s Choice
Understanding Psalms 1-10
Understanding Psalms 11-20
Understanding Satan
Unedited Summary Notes on “Essay on the Scripture Doctrine of Atonement” by Caleb Burge
Unnatural Narratives of Omniscience
Use Your Own Reasoning
Verses on “Immutability” debunked
Verses where God does not know what will happen
Warning against Modalism
WARNING! You might bring upon yourself Swift Destruction!
Was David a Sinner at Birth?
Was Dinah Raped? An Alternative Interpretation
Was God’s Wrath Satisfied on The Cross?
Was Jesus called Emmanuel ?
Was the Concept of Progressive Sanctification brought into The Pentecostal Church by Pentecostal Calvinists ?
Was The Crucifixion Divine Child Abuse ?
We have piped unto You, and Ye have not danced
Were Achan’s Children punished for the Sin of their Father?
Wesley on the Possibility of Perfect Love
What About David’s Mother?
What about Imputation ?
What About Those Who have Never heard the Gospel ?
What do Pentecostals believe ?
What Does a Perfect God Look Like?
What does being A Peacemaker require of You ?
What does He want ?
What does Hebrews 6:9-10 mean ? Does It teach Eternal Security ?
What Does It Mean to be Justified?
What Does it Mean to be “Holy”?
What does It mean to be “Under the Law” or “Under Grace”?
What does Spiritual Warfare have to do with the Cross ?
What does the Bible say about Overcoming Lust?
What Flesh did Jesus Come In?
What Happened on the Cross
What I learned from “Simple Church”
What is Fasting and Why Should You do It ?
What is Lust?
What is the Lust of the Eyes?
What The Bible says God can’t do
What the Cross Tells Us About God
What’s Your Worth ?
When Blueprints Fail
When God sought to kill Moses
Where does The Following Excerpt come from ?
Where is Free Will taught in The Bible ?
While Satan makes Disciples of The Nations
Who are You, O Man?
Who is really Self-Righteous ?
Who is Responsible ?
Whoever Looks At A Woman with Lust
Why Apologetics ?
Why Did God Create Satan?
Why did The Theological Chicken cross The Road ?
Why Divine Permission establishes Free Will
Why Human Beings Sin
Why I am not a Calvinist: How Reformed Theology contradicts Scripture
Why I celebrate Christmas
Why I love My Local Church
Why Not Compatibilism ?
Why The Theory of Compatibilism Falls Short
Will You resist Temptation ?
William Birch on Supralapsarianism
William Booth was An Inclusivist
Wine
Wise and Foolish Builders
Without Excuse?
Without God
Women Preaching in The Church
Working Faith – A Faith that Works
Works without Faith is Dead
Works-righteousness, works based salvation, or justification by works?
You are FREE to marry!
You must do Something to be saved
Your Prayers Matter
“Simultaneously Just and Sinner” is A False Doctrine
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