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Our Word, frequently translated as "atonement" needs to well understood if we are to understand the gospel of Christ. The Hebrew word appears about 103 times in the Old Testament, so its meaning is confined to the Old Covenant, not the New Covenant. That is why translating the Old Covenant word...

Does the Bible teach that God’s knowledge of the future is imperfect, that God confronts the unexpected? Open Theism advocates cite Isaiah 5:1-5 and assert God did expect good grapes and was surprised when He got wild grapes. But is this what the text actually teaches? Nope. The Hebrew word...

One of the chronic problems with gaining an accurate understanding of God's word, based on reading and even studying an English Translation is dealing with original language words with two or more meanings. Sometimes the translators choose the correct contextual meaning, but sometimes they...

This passage follows the Hebrews 10:19-25 passage where we are to live according to our faith and faithfulness to the gospel in which we placed our trust and devotion. Then in our passage the alternate is presented, where people rejected or were not fully committed to the gospel are described...

This morning I listened, on the radio, to the late John Mac Arthur on the meaning of redemption. I hold a differing view. Like many other confused NT concepts, the confusion arises from the translation, or mistranslation of a Greek word with two related meanings. For example, in Luke 1:68...

According to at least one widely held Christian view, it does not matter whether the gospel is presented accurately or not, no human being is able to respond to it appropriately anyway; as everyone in their natural fallen state suffers from total spiritual inability. Then, again according to...

Some folks explain being chosen in Him as meaning we were chosen as specific foreseen individuals in anticipation of the salvation that would be available “in Him.” This seems to me to be an unnatural reading of the text. Rather the phrase “in Him” seems to me to describe how we were chosen...

1 Peter 2:9 indicates born anew believers are a chosen people. Some seem to think this refers to God's corporate election of the descendants (seed) of Abraham, i.e. the nation of Israel. However Paul makes clear, when viewed through the lens of the New Covenant, not all the descendants are...

Before we even think about studying hilasterion and the related words hilaskomai and hilasmos, we must address the three cornerstone words of salvation - propitiation, the means of reconciliation, redemption, the act of spiritual transfer into Christ and reconciliation, the result of...