He Who Is
It is impossible to make distinctions between God, His essence, and His attributes. YHWH (“I AM THAT I AM” or “He Who Is,” Ex. 3:14) exists as a self-existent (...
Month: September 2016
A Golden Era That Never Was
Many New Testament Christians are incorrectly caught up in the pipe dream of a golden era of the church when there were neither problems nor divisions. But when...
The Necessity Of A Necessary Inference
CENI (C=command, E=example, and NI=necessary inference) is an acronym that identifies the three ways the Bible teaches us its truths. The necessity of a necessa...
Interpreting Scripture
All of us—every last one of us—employ some system of interpretation (viz., a hermeneutic) when trying to understand the Bible. For clarity’s sake, let me set fo...
Rejecting CENI
Several years ago I had a discussion with a brother who rejected CENI (C=command, E=example, and NI=necessary inference) as a “divinely-approved means” of inter...
A Review Of The Inductive-Deductive Method
The Greeks (Aristotle, Plato et al.) and later the Scholastics (who were primarily Roman Catholic theologians) were thoroughly enamored with deductive reasoning...
The Then, Now, and Not Yet
As Christians, we are making an all-out effort with God’s help to live faithfully in the difficult and complex now between the then of what we once were and the...