Not Of Works, Lest Anyone Should Boast
When Paul says, in Ephesians 2:8-9, “not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” and “not of works, lest anyone should boast,” and does so in contrast with salvat...
Author: Allan Turner
Romans 3:28 Vs. James 2:24: Are They Really Contradictory?
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law (Rom. 3:28). You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by fa...
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism Vs. The Cross Of Christ
In their 2005 book entitled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton presented the r...
God’s Knowledge Is Multifaceted
God has foreknowledge and man has free will. This is true because the Bible says so. On the other hand, Calvinists et al. think there is some sort of friction b...
Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit of Happiness Are Not State-Granted Permissions, But God-Given Rights
As noted in the previous post, the secular critics insist that THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO “LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” are Enlightenment/secular ...
God's Sovereignty/Idolatry/The Christian And Culture/The Christian And Government/The Christian And Idolatry
A Prior Allegiance
There are those who argue that this country was founded on secularism (i.e., Enlightenment theories). Thus, they claim, it was the expressed view of the Foundin...
Unalienable Rights
In the founding document of this nation, the Founding Fathers set forth their theory of rights with these words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: tha...