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Clear searchSpiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…e making himself less able, not more able, to discern what is happening. The surrender of discernment is not spiritual maturity. When consciousness becomes contagious Not every altered state is deliberately pursued as a religious experience. In Strasbourg during the summer of 151…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…y can now know what it originally said. That claim sounds formidable until we ask how the biblical text was actually transmitted. The Bible did not pass through one secret chain in which a single guardian could rewrite every copy. Its books were read publicly, copied repeatedly,…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…why a settled claim to faith accompanied by a settled refusal of Christ's rule creates a biblical contradiction. Titus describes people who “profess that they know God; but in works they deny him” (Titus 1:16). Their profession and practice point in opposite directions. We shoul…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…u a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." —1 Corinthians 15:51 A biblical mystery is not necessarily something never hinted at in any form. It is a divine purpose previously hidden or not disclosed with its present clarity. The bodily resurrection was not…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
Four major objections to pretribulationism examined through the man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day.
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…as not invented merely to remove Israel, and spiritual interpretation can uncover genuine biblical patterns. The danger appears when a spiritual application is made exhaustive. A prophecy may edify the Church and still mean what it says about Israel. Once the spiritual sense canc…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…se its voice cannot be reproduced without becoming imitation. Shakespeare, Milton and the biblical prophets possess distinctive styles. No second writer can become Isaiah by approximating Isaiah's cadences. Yet stylistic singularity does not prove that every singular work was ver…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…tance. These truths are not concessions made reluctantly. They are essential parts of the biblical case. But they do not answer the decisive question: does fulfilment in Christ confirm the promises God made, or permit their stated recipients and particulars to be permanently exch…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ratives The Qur’an did not emerge in a cultural vacuum. It appeared in a world alive with biblical names, Jewish interpretation, Christian preaching, sectarian disagreement, devotional legend and stories carried across languages by travellers, merchants, clergy and ordinary belie…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…d, so that national Israel no longer possesses a distinct future in the fulfilment of the biblical covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel a…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…is real, and that God has sometimes given visions. Yet the same Bible repeatedly commands discernment. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." —1 John 4:1 Paul makes the test startlingly strict: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, pr…
Read article →Tal Brooke · Christian investigation · 1979
…an revelation and asks what these experiences actually prove. It is useful apologetic and discernment reading for a subject on which personal testimony is often allowed to outrun careful biblical judgment. The book was written during the first great wave of modern interest in nea…
View recommendation →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ort spiritual elitism. Yet the surviving texts also contain exhortation, moral formation, biblical exposition, and recognisably Christian devotion. The evidence does not justify one rigid portrait of every Valentinian teacher occupying every congregation in the same way. Lee's an…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
What Really Happened at Nicaea? Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die The Council of Nicaea has become a screen upon which almost every conspiracy about early Christianity is projected. Constantine invented the T…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…nly a courtroom sentence. In Scripture, judgement can include governance, administration, discernment, vindication, and the establishment of justice. Israel's judges did more than decide lawsuits. God raised them to deliver and govern His people. Moses heard disputes and made God…
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