Slandering the Bible’s Reliability to Produce Doubt

Often skeptics and liberal theologians unite in the mass media and as “history” on cable TV to slam the Bible and project doubt on to world. These scholars claim elite and prominent status from each other. They are contrasted as being in opposition in worldviews, but yet they somehow unite in being doubtful about the Bible’s reliability as though the unity of secular and liberal minds are not possible in such conjectures. The secular and liberal theologian elites then proclaim to reveal the “unreliability” of the Bible because of 20,ooo plus “irreconcilable” manuscripts. These critics like to present how the Bible’s originals do not exist. They want you to be doubtful that’s all. Doubtful about the 500 significant variants between 5,500+ Greek copies of the New Testament. They want you to question the authority of the Bible and wonder that what if even the most fundamental teachings of the Bible are the result of the alterations of men conspiring for an orthodox faith. If only you’d jump to the same conclusions that they did, then you’d agree with them and rely on their conjectures to understand some things that they say you are not capable of addressing. Trust me that middle-schoolers though illiterate of ancient languages have the critical thinking skills to analyze variants (hence the NET Bible).

What these theologians and their secular friends have not told you is what they are incapable of proving. Their learning and knowledge comes from

The Resistance in the Face of Abominations

Observe the world enlightening professing Christians, saying, “Real Christians should be tolerant in diversity, which means to support the freedoms of others who are ambitious for their natural urges, possessions, and pride. Real Christians should allow others to abort fetuses not considered people by some; to accept free education to teach your children their ape ancestry; to welcome the publishing of speculations about natural origins; to accept alternative unions as right as marriage; to understand that spouses need not keep lifelong vows for life; to be rational with your teenagers’ personal choices with their bodies; to honor and volunteer hours of service to mother earth; to bear with open parades of lewdness as a freedom of expression; to defend country and family beside those with vile lusts; to be wise enough to know that consent is only for educated elites with

The Biblical Definition of Worship – Part 3

Here were see what actions are worship. Some say everything even involuntary that we do excluding sin. Some say only praise. Some say only a number of actions in the Assembly. The Greek word proskuneo is primarily what we are looking for while latreia, latreuo, and sebomai.

Now that worship is defined and some of the basic premises for worship are affirmed, what is an act of worship? Are acts of worship to limited to a few specific acts or are acts of worship as broad everything that one does? With the definition established for worship, every act of reverence could be considered an act of worship, but a very important passage of Scripture cannot be forgotten. The passage is

The Biblical Definition of Worship – Part 2

First of all, who defines worship? The blatant and obvious answer is God through His written Word, but there is no explicit definition of worship in the Scriptures. The Western English-speaking world has already defined the word “worship” for itself, and there are some contrasting definitions among Christian concepts. When examining the definitions of the words for worship in the Scriptures along with the English definition of worship, this issue begins to be resolved. Hopefully, this study will reconcile Biblical Greek to modern English, and end needless division over related issues.

To be able to reach a correct understanding of worship and to define worship according to the Scriptures, a Scriptural study of the

The Biblical Definition of Worship – Part 1

There are numerous confusing understandings of Christian words. “Worship” is one of them. The word “worship” is easily redefined within and to support the practices of most denominations. In this first part, an examination of men who have studied this subject and see correction in understanding the biblical concept of worship. In the book, The Church of Christ (Nashville: Gospel Advocate, 1997. P.135), Edward C. Wharton stated, “We should not think of worship as confined to praise or a worship activity in a church house.” This is something that has been stressed for some time though most refuse to comprehend the importance of defining “worship”. When the word “worship” is mentioned, many err in thinking of only the Assembly or only assemblies of Christians. “Worship” and “assembly” are not

A Look into the House of God

This article is written with great care, concern, and compassion for the souls who have not truly looked into the House of God. The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy,

“These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Tim. 3:15).

God has a house and His House is often neglected when seen from the Bible. Apparently, God’s house is the Church of the living God. The writer of Hebrews wrote about Jesus, “For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house…but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end” (Heb. 3:3, 6). Christians are the house of God if they hold fact the hope unto the end. Jesus said that He would build His Church as He called it “My church” (Matt. 16:18). The Church is the

The Skeptic’s Necessary Prejudice to the Bible

The Bible is approached unlike any other books in all of history. The simple premises for the origin of the New Testament are that it exists, it existed since before our grandfathers’ grandfathers, and so the New Testament came into existence some way some how at some specific time. The New Testament claims authorship by God via named Apostles and prophets of Jesus of Nazareth. It is to the names and character of the writers of the New Testament that prejudice is applied.

See, the names attributed to written works are universally admitted to be rational and conclusive evidence of authorship. Yet in the case of the Bible, this respect is not applied. Now, the New Testament is approached