We can project all sorts of things onto an invisible being and call it “god”. When it cuts to the chase, either God has revealed Himself/Herself/Itself to humanity, or we are left to own devices to try to discover who and what God is or even if God exists. Fair…
One Feast of Tabernacles sermon I listened to was “The Red Letter Torah”. It was brought out how often what Jesus said (you know, the red letters in some Bibles) was actually a quote from the OT. The speaker started out by asking if Jesus really meant what He said. …
One thing you see over and over by critics is that, “You believe that keeping the Law makes you righteous.” Well, I suppose that keeping the civil law makes you a law abiding citizen, and so in a sense they are right. Does breaking the Law make you righteous? Yet,…
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. ~ Col 2:16-17 (NIV…
One criticism of the Church of God (COG) movement in general is that it’s emphasis is upon “the physical” instead of “the spiritual”. I hinted at this in the article “The Good That HWA and WCG Did” under point 2, “The necessity of keeping the entire moral Law.” “Spiritual”, of…
Sin is not a very popular concept these days. At the bottom of it all, it requires an acknowledgement that you are or are doing wrong in the sight of God. People, you may have noticed, don’t usually like to admit they are wrong. No, these days, it is much…
9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for…
26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to…
I really liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie. It had some pretty neat special effects. However, do you realize that what they were looking for was not the real ark? No, it was a shadow of the real one! 1Now of the things which we have spoken this…
Coincidences are God’s way of being anonymous, the saying goes. I believe there is some truth to that. I’m not a big believer in coincidences, although I’ll grant that it certainly appears that God allows certain things to happen without an immediate direct interference. Otherwise, we would all be puppets…