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Clear searchEzekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
Did God Give Laws That Were Not Good? Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over “I gave them also statutes that were not good.” Those words in Ezekiel 20:25 can sound startling when read alone. The following verse m…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
Isaac, Not Ishmael The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ Did God choose Isaac or Ishmael? This is not a tribal debate. It is a covenant question. The answer does not require hostility towards Arabs, contempt for Mus…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…f the Son as He comes into the world: “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.” — Hebrews 10:5 Read alone, the sentence could sound as though a body was constructed and the Son stepped inside i…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…firm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate.” —Daniel 9:27 The seventy heptads are determined upon Daniel’s people and holy city.…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…r is compatibility enough. Ancient people knew that water was indispensable to life, that children developed in the womb and that the heavens were immense. A statement must be not merely true, but sufficiently precise, surprising and antecedently recoverable to demonstrate knowle…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…through the people with whom God has identified Himself. Christians from the nations are children of Abraham by faith. They share in spiritual blessings mediated through Israel's Messiah. But Scripture does not therefore require them to describe themselves as Jews or “true Jews.…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…Israel may farm, harvest, build, eat meat, own livestock, use working animals, and offer sacrifices. Biblical care is not based upon animal autonomy or the belief that untouched nature is the highest good. Instead, the law places morally significant limits upon use. The weekly S…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ofaned—not a reward for national merit. Hosea foretells "many days" without king, prince, sacrifice, image, ephod, or teraphim. Afterwards Israel returns and seeks the LORD and "David their king" (Hosea 3:4-5). The long absence does not become permanent abandonment. Isaiah presen…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ult upon divine unity. Christianity says that reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repentance, good works and hope in divine mercy without that atoning ground. These are not different accents within one faith. They are contradic…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…es, His saving love towards sinners, His fatherly delight and communion with His obedient children, and His holy opposition to evil. These are not contradictions. Love can seek an enemy's good without approving his enmity. That distinction makes Jesus' teaching more powerful, not…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…more closely than Jesus in certain biographical respects. Moses and Muhammad married, had children, led communities, exercised civil authority and brought comprehensive laws. Jesus did not marry, govern an earthly state or lead an army. Secondly, "their brethren" is said to inclu…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…phecy concerns "thy people and... thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24). Its final crisis involves sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:27). Daniel 12 then describes an unequalled time of trouble: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for th…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…th (Deuteronomy 17:14–20). Samuel warned that government could become an engine of taking—children, labour, land, produce and servants drawn into the service of the ruler (1 Samuel 8:10–18). The prophets then recorded what corrupt power looked like in practice. Isaiah condemned r…
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