18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD… (Isaiah 1:18a, King James Version) It seems that every year there are people who want to bicker over the date of Pentecost, aka Feast of Weeks. Some count inclusively, some count exclusively. Strange as it may seem, though, some don’t…
An oldie but a goody. Every once in a while, you hear the claim that the NT wasn’t written until decades after the Apostles all died. Sometimes, you even hear claims that it was centuries. The Good News in the November/December 1997 edition has the article “When Was the New…
Dr Robert Thiel wrote me a cordial email about the article “The Pope and the Antichrist”. I will try to address his comments/clarifications/questions one at a time (yet without publishing the entire email chain). “Perhaps you will want to post my response and P.S.” Consider it done, and hopefully I…
In Part 7, we saw that Israel’s conquest of Canaan was just because God commanded it. However, all along Israel had a habit of not seeking God’s will. In fact, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that Israel might not have had to fight at all if they simply obeyed…
It seems I left out a part in the outline of the still ongoing series on The Just War. I haven’t forgotten this series, it’s just that lately current events, especially in COG news, have made it take a back seat. However, before I post that particular article in the…
One indispensible resource I like to use is the online Blue Letter Bible. One area I recently became aware of is their "Sayings Not Found in Scripture" section. Hopefully, regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the sayings and that they are not in the Bible, but it’s…
In a book that sounds vaguely reminiscent of The Real Jesus by GTA, the Telegraph has a report about “Jesus was son of an architect, book claims". The Jesus Discovery by Dr Adam Bradford claims that Jesus would have had a high ranking position within the Jewish community, rather than…
In Part 1, we took a quick look at the sources for the belief of some Church of God groups that Adam was white. The main issue is that this doctrine is wholly conceived from cultural biases, particularly from WCG’s founder Herbert W Armstrong. It is not found in the…
After yesterday’s article about anti-Semitism, I feel it is important to follow up with a real problem doctrine taught in a few of the Churches of God. There are still organizations that tenaciously cling to old ideas that state that Adam was white (and, I assume that Eve was as…
It is during times of the year such as this that my mind wanders to the phrase “What would Jesus do?” Yet, it is merely a slogan for most. Like a magical charm, people will wear “WWJD” on bracelets, but they never seem to make the transition to actually doing…