How the mighty must bow to the smallest.. The amazing story of our cooperation with one of God’s smallest creations is here unravelled to some extent. It would create volumes if I were to write about all of it. And I admit that I only know what little will be Continue Reading
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But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep
“But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” 1 Corinthians 15:20 For centuries it has been proclaimed that believers in Christ go either to heaven or to hell at their physical death. At the coffins in the burial chapels it has Continue Reading
You can’t be optimistic with misty optics.
What is vaguely thought is often vaguely said “ But you, continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them, and that from childhood you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through Continue Reading
The Root and the Branches
The Root and the Branches In the previous posting we began to think about how we can understand the Israel of today and the Israel that overwhelmingly determines the content of the entire word of God, Gt as Nt. In some peculiar way, Israel is required to have a standard Continue Reading
In the New Jerusalem
This will be the third and final part of this matter. The biblical material would suffice for many more, but this will have to be enough. To remove any doubt that the people of Israel, those who are Abraham’s descendants according to their faith in the Messiah, Christ Yeshua, will Continue Reading
Israel, oh Israel, a stone to break the nations
(Throughout the biblical quotations are from the NET version of the bible) Anybody who desires to take Israel to task, for whatever reason, must be warned that any handling of Israel is tantamount to tackling the Yahweh Sebaoth himself. The Lord and His people are in a mysterious way linked Continue Reading
Written Words, Feeding Faith
“If we do not trust the writers of the Bible when they speak of the texts of the Bible, why do we believe anything else the Bible claims?” As denomination after denomination, and therefore congregation after congregation, leans further and further away from the thought of the Bible as the Continue Reading
One in three, it is?
Something about the Three who are One “Let’s pray..” I’ll be trying for a while to unravel one of the big stumbling blocks in Christian teaching. It is about our understanding of God. That it is an important question shines through in many places in the Word. “He who wants Continue Reading
All things written
“If we do not believe in what is written in the Bible about itself, how can we then trust anything else that it says?” Rev Teddy Donobauer There was a time when Christians were generally known as the Readers, because the life they lived was conditioned by their careful and Continue Reading
Hidden in plain view, the unsearchable God.
I have been asked to “explain” the doctrine of the Trinity by some of my African brothers. Considering that this doctrine is one of the hottest potatoes in the history of Christian dogmatics, only a fool would be pretending to be able to “explain” what is in essence inexplicable, but Continue Reading