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David L Allen, Dean of the school of theology and Professor of preaching and director of the Center of Biblical Preaching at Southwestern Baptist Seminary, writes, Grudem’s treatment of Heb. 6:4-6 illustrates the tendentious nature of much of the Calvinistic exegesis of this passage. The sheer...

There is no such promise in the Bible! Perhaps you are thinking of something that you read years ago but do not correctly remember it: John 14:15. “If you love me, you will keep {Other ancient authorities read [me, keep]} my commandments. 16. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you...

I do not “feel” that my interpretation of the scriptures relative to the doctrine of salvation is correct—I know from the abundance of objective facts that my interpretation of the scriptures relative to the doctrine of salvation is correct. I do not “feel” that my interpretation of church...

It is extreme unfortunate that you allowed your library to be so severely biased! My library very carefully reflects not what I personally believe, but an extremely wide spectrum of Jewish and Christian theological thought expressed by the top scholars representing those thoughts—whether I agree...

The truth is not a myth! The truth is that the unbiblical doctrine of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden is a silly story concocted by intellectually and spiritual impaired men to explain why some people do such bad things but, of course, fails to explain why many more people do such good...

Examples of Biblical (NASB, 1995) passages which support free will: Deuteronomy 30:19. “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,” Jeremiah...

Luke 10:25. Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26. He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27. And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul...

I have been a Baptist for the whole of my adult life and cannot understand how any Bible-believing Baptists could so very badly understand the very clear and obvious teaching in the Bible regarding the salvation of the believer. Indeed, for the first 1,500 years of the church there were only a...

A few important points: (1) James Moffatt’s, A New Translation of the Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments is NOT a paraphrase, but a translation and mutilation of the Bible in colloquial English. (2) J. B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English is a paraphrase rather than a...

I have here in my study the following books by J.B. Philips: The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips, 1958 Seventeenth Printing, 1968. A new hardcover copy New Testament, 1958 The Gospels, 1952, 1957 The Young Church in Action, 1955 Letters to Young Churches, 1947, 1957 The...

What can I say but thank you for this wonderfully expiring post!

0 וירא האלהים את־מעשׂיהם כי־שׁבו מדרכם הרעה וינחם האלהים על־הרעה אשׁר־דבר לעשׂות־להם ולא עשׂה׃ Jonah 3:10

Of course God does not change. The changing of ones mind does not change who one is.

Jonah 3:10. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. Exodus 32:12. “Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in...

The Bible says what it says! If you don’t like it, it is not the Bible’s fault.