salvation
Biblical defense and explanation of salvation, grace, faith, and redemption.
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES HIDDEN FROM SATAN Paid Members Public
The Holy Scriptures teach that God’s plan of redeeming mankind by the cross of Christ was something hidden from the rulers of this evil age: “Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age
MEDIATING AND INTERCEDING BEFORE THE ONE MEDIATOR AND INTERCESSOR Paid Members Public
The God-breathed Scriptures exhort believers to pray and intercede for the salvation of all mankind since they have one mediator who has offered himself as a ransom to procure the redemption of the entire human race: “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks
CHRIST’S FAITHFULNESS AS AN EXAMPLE OF SAVING FAITH Paid Members Public
In this post I will provide further evidence that saving faith according to the Holy Bible is defined as faithfulness to the Lord Jesus. I will use Christ’s own faithfulness as an example. For instance, note how the following versions rendering a key text that is often employed in
BIBLICAL VERSES ON FAITHFULNESS/OBEDIENCE Paid Members Public
Here’s an older version of this article: TRUE FAITH IS FAITHFULNESS AND OBEDIENCE PT. 1. In this relatively short post, I will highlight verses which testify that saving faith is being faithful to obey God’s commandments. Note, for instance, what John wrote in his inspired Gospel: “But to
ADAM AS A TYPE OF CHRIST Paid Members Public
According to the holy Scriptures, Adam was a picture of the One to come who would undo all of the affects that the first man’s transgressions brought upon mankind and the world: “Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death
JESUS CHRIST: THE GOD-MAN WHO REDEEMS Paid Members Public
Anti-Trinitarians appeal to the following text to prove that Jesus is a mere human being who is personally distinguished from the one God before and for whom he mediates: “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a
WHO IS THE JEHOVAH THAT ONE CALLS UPON TO BE SAVED? Paid Members Public
The Hebrew Bible proclaims that salvation comes from calling upon the name of YHVH: “And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, Even among the
The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Nightmare Pt. 4 Paid Members Public
This is a continuation of my series: The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Nightmare Pt. 3b. In this post I will contrast the Authorized King James Version with the JW’s (mis)translation of the Holy Bible in order to show the deliberate, pernicious renderings by the Society of specific biblical texts,