Often persons think that being a member of a local assembly of Christians makes them right with God individually. If that were true, the apostle Paul would not have admonished: “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘belief’
Is your profession of Christ genuine?
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Salvation, Self-deception, tagged belief, Church, Discipleship, gospel, Matthew Henry, Salvation, Self-deception, Thomas Manton on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Must we believe in the virgin birth of Jesus?
Posted in Christmas, Salvation, Scriptures, tagged belief, creation, John Shelby Spong, Tremper Longman, Virgin Birth on December 11, 2009 |
Many professing Christian theologians have jettisoned belief in practically all the “hard-to-believe” sections of the Bible. Gone is the belief that God created the heavens and the earth and all therein in sixth twenty-four-hour days. Gone is the belief that Moses, by the power of God, parted the waters of the Red Sea. Gone are [...]
Believing to Understand
Posted in Scriptures, tagged belief, inerrancy, skeptism, unbelief on April 2, 2009 |
Occasionally a college student will ask me to respond to something a professor has taught concerning the Bible. For instance, a religion professor pointed to Numbers 12:3: “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.” The professor asked, “If Moses wrote the book of [...]