January 2011

Is Repentance Required for Salvation or is such teaching a form of Works Righteousness?

January 31, 2011 8 Comments

If a person claiming to be a Christian embraces an ungodly lifestyle and refuses to change his or her mind and forsake this lifestyle, and they die, will they go to heaven or hell?

What if that person firmly believes that because of the sacrifice of Jesus, their sins are covered by the blood and they are under the grace of God? What if they also say that they have at one time "received Jesus as Lord and Savior"? What if they call Jesus Lord when they pray and even say, "Jesus is Lord!" on various occasions.

Falling Short of the Grace of God – Is this possible?

January 31, 2011 6 Comments

On a recent Facebook post of mine someone commented:

You said "While… legally Christ has dealt with our sin once and for all, Christians often do fall short of the grace of God"… If it is Grace, how does a lack of righteousness cause me to fall short of it? Only trusting my righteousness can do that.

Allow me to refer to the Scriptures:

My Second Chance

January 31, 2011 No Comments

The Bible says that “the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time saying….” and I am so thankful and joyful that God indeed is the God of a Second chance and third and fourth, etc. I had been in full time ministry for several years, and in the course of events that transpired, I fell in sin and backslid on the Lord.

Theistic Determinism, Compatibilism vs Free Will

January 30, 2011 No Comments

Calvinists are theistic determinists. The Westminster Confession of Faith, declares that

"God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass” (Westminster Confession of Faith, III/i).

Did you hear that? They are saying that God unchangeable ordained whatever comes to pass! This means:

Every child molestation was ordained by God.

Every war was ordained by God.

All war crimes were ordained by God.

The unbelief of man was ordained by God.

Christ is the only Way to reach God

January 30, 2011 10 Comments

I am not a good Christian. I’m still not a good Christian. But I try to be a good one, at least one that is good in God’s eyes.

U.S. Apathetic to Christian Persecution

January 29, 2011 4 Comments

Wikileaks Exposes US Embassy Apathy

US Ambassador to Vietnam downplays recent attacks against Christians

23hrs dead: She saw Famous People in Hell: Michael Jackson, Pope John Paul II, & others

January 29, 2011 611 Comments

Extract from “Prepare to Mett Your God” NDE/vision by Angelica Elizabeth Zambrano Mora, 18 years old, Ecuador. She testifies of being taken in a NDE by the Lord Jesus to visit Hell & Heaven, of seeing famous people in Hell, the Glories of Heaven and visions of the rapture & End Times. There is a lot more to the vision than what is posted below, please read the full vision in context on this link – http://spiritlessons.com/Documents/Prepare_to_meet_your_God/index.htm
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HELL

Does Romans 9 Teach Calvinism?

January 29, 2011 6 Comments

If any passage of the Bible clearly teaches Calvinism, it would be Romans chapter 9. Calvin himself referred to Romans
9:6-24 as "that memorable passage from Paul which alone ought easily to compose all controversy [concerning election] among sober and compliant children of God". I must confess I have at times been disturbed by what seemed to be the implications of Romans chapter 9, and also parts of Romans chapter 11, concerning the love, justice and goodness of God.

Calvinism vs Arminianism

January 29, 2011 No Comments

Calvinism is a system of theology popularized by the French Reformer Jean Calvin. It is also popularly known as "Reformed Theology". In Calvinism, the ultimate eternal destination of all people was predetermined by God before the world was made, on the basis of God's own sovereign choice ALONE. Calvinism is a deterministic system in which it is believed that everything that happens was foreordained and engineered by God – even our repentance, our faith responses, our choices.