"As Jesus sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Matthew 24:3 My last blogpost looked at Jesus' teaching on the current and future character of His …
Category: Apologetics
Jesus’ extraordinary conversation
Some of Jesus' quotations are well-known, such as: "Render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's", but people do not sufficiently appreciate how extraordinary are Jesus' answers. This was not simply a comment but it was a quick-fire answer to the Pharisees who set out to entangle …
The errors of Seventh-Day Adventism
Seventh-Day Adventism has many errors but the fundamental one which keeps it separate from mainstream Christianity is boldly declared in its name. It does not observe the Christian Sabbath on the first day of the week, when Jesus rose from the dead, but it continues to observe the seventh-day sabbath. There are other groups who …
Jehovah’s Witnesses and their fundamental error
Jehovah’s Witnesses are very zealous with door-to-door evangelism. They will usually engage people with their views about God's kingdom on Earth, and they call their meeting houses Kingdom Halls. However, they have a fundamental error. They do not believe that Jesus Christ is God. They believe that the Son of God is the first and …
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Universal ideas – Black Holes and all that
I got a surprise last night when I heard about another hypothesis on the origin to our Universe. In short, it describes a proposal for future study that our Universe is contained and restrained within a black hole of a larger ‘parent Universe’, published recently in the journal Physical Review D. This might contradict the …
Broadway Christianity
"Enter in at the narrow gate because the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many going into it." Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:13. In this concluding part of His Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus warns us against "Broadway Christianity". This is not a warning …
Do you know the Way to Heaven?
The Way to Heaven is not by "being good", nor by "going to church". Too often the church gets in the way, instead of helping you to find the Way. The Way to Heaven is not religion, philosophy or "living a good life". Jesus said to the ecclesiastical lawyers: “Woe unto you, lawyers! for you …
Reformation from blind faith
The 16th-century European Reformation was a reformation from the blind faith expected by Roman Catholicism. Blind faith is believing something because someone else has said it, rather than examining the evidence for oneself. It is encouraged by dogmaticians, who regularly use "proof by assertion" to "establish" their point. Instead of believing what the Roman Catholic …
Prepare to meet thy God
Today the Scottish Parliament will debate an Assisted Dying Bill promoted by Liam McArthur, a Lib Dem MSP. It is the first of several parliamentary stages, which can be viewed here. The debate can be viewed live and retrospectively. The death culture – from birthdays to manmade deathdays. Why are people so ready to rush …
Church courts or helpers?
In Presbyterianism it is common to hear of church assemblies being described as church courts. Why? This terminology promotes legalistic thinking, and this is too commonly found in dealing with cases of conscience or cases of discipline. This legal thinking needs to be balanced with the biblical teaching about office-bearers in the Church of Christ: …
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