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Clear searchWhat mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
Two Revelations of Divine Love What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God Love is easily claimed. Its character is revealed by what it does when the beloved is undeserving and the cost is real. Islam…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…). That statement raises a serious question. If God is eternally one solitary Person, was divine love eternally active, or did it exist only as a capacity awaiting creation? Did relationship begin when God made something other than Himself? The question is often turned into a qui…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…rael's Promises? Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A strong supersessionist response d…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…Israel's Messiah, the true and obedient Servant, and mediator of the new covenant. Every divine promise is yea and Amen in Him. The Church genuinely inherits in Christ. Gentile believers receive Abrahamic blessing, the promised Spirit, adoption, forgiveness, resurrection life, a…
Read article →John Bunyan · Spiritual autobiography · 1666
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View recommendation →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…peatedly rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him. What happens to divine promises when their recipients prove unfaithful? Scripture does not answer by minimising Israel's sin. Nor does it conclude that God's purpose must be transferred to a more deserving…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…Whatever source my opponent was using, the essential argument was familiar: the different divine names in the Pentateuch betrayed different sources and an earlier history lying behind the Bible’s finished account. What was new was hearing the subject return through my son, not as…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
The Scales and the Cross Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God How will I stand before God? The question reaches deeper than religious labels. We know that our actions matter, that evil deserves judgement, and tha…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…es through election and a remnant while the nation remains identifiable and awaits future mercy. Where does Paul's argument begin and end? The formal discussion of Israel begins at Romans 9:1 and ends with the doxology at Romans 11:33-36. Paul opens with grief over his physical k…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…ee." The metaphor teaches participation without appropriation, unity without erasure, and mercy without boasting. Paul is speaking directly to Gentiles Romans 9-11 addresses the problem created by Israel's unbelief. If Israel received the covenants and promises, how can so many I…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…ed blessing, not identical identity. It warns Gentiles that they stand by faith, promises mercy to natural branches, and grounds the entire arrangement in the holiness of the root. What about Abraham's seed? All who belong to Christ are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the p…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ion; judgement is unreal; reincarnation is true; human beings are sparks of an impersonal divine consciousness; repentance and the cross are unnecessary. Whatever psychological comfort such claims provide, Christians cannot accept them merely because they arrived clothed in radia…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…. The length of the interval is not a defect in God's promise. Scripture repeatedly joins divine patience to the apparent delay of judgement (2 Peter 3:9). The gap is long from the human perspective, but it is neither empty nor purposeless. Who is the "he" of Daniel 9:27? "And he…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…omans 11:25–29). The Church is God's eternally purposed people in Christ. Israel's future mercy is also part of God's purpose. Affirming one does not require cancelling the other. The complete case is developed in our Israel and the Church series. Criticism 3: “Daniel and Revelat…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…the ransom, the blood of the covenant, the sacrifice for sins and the event through which divine justice and mercy meet. It replaces the apostolic proclamation with rescue from the cross. But the historical evidence will not permit that replacement. Jesus was not saved from cruci…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…not uncertain. God's message does not affirm and deny the same promise. In Christ, every divine undertaking receives its decisive yes, and through Him believers voice the Amen to the glory of God. Paul's point is divine reliability. Christ demonstrates that God's word is trustwo…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…nfirm the promises made unto the fathers" and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy (Romans 15:8-9). Abraham's promise widens towards an inheritance of the world (Romans 4:13). The kingdom under David's Son reaches every nation. But expansion is not contradiction. Con…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…rrect earthly satisfaction. We have forsaken God. Our thirst is therefore both misery and mercy: misery because life apart from God is dry, and mercy because the ache exposes the lie that our broken cisterns are enough. Who is the thirsty person? Jesus does not say, "If any man h…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…ccidental residence or ordinary property ownership. It is an enduring bond established by divine promise—a bond involving belonging, possession, habitation, fruitfulness, vocation, and permanence. Isaiah’s imagery must therefore neither be overstated nor weakened. The land is not…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…stract attribute. It is the reason His people can trust what He says. If the wording of a divine promise does not reliably disclose what God has committed Himself to perform, confidence becomes impossible. Faith would rest not upon revelation, but upon our hope that the words wil…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…clay and breathing life into it evokes God’s creation of Adam. Jesus appears to perform a divine kind of creative act, but the repeated qualification “by Allah’s leave” places the power under divine permission and prevents the miracle from establishing His independent deity. This…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…nian desolation would last seventy years, confesses the sins of his people and pleads for mercy upon God’s sanctuary and holy city. Gabriel then gives an answer which expands the horizon from seventy years to seventy “weeks” or sevens: “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy peopl…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…er but equally revealing reference. God rebukes Jonah for pitying a plant while resenting mercy shown to Nineveh, a city filled with people who cannot discern their right hand from their left, "and also much cattle" (Jonah 4:11). God's final words include creatures which Jonah's…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ced Him. The title "Son of David" carried that history. Crowds used it when appealing for mercy and when welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem (Matthew 20:30-31; 21:9). Gabriel had promised that He would receive David's throne and reign over the house of Jacob (Luke 1:32-33). Even the c…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ntained within the category of prophet. We have considered eternal love, the crucifixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…count of God also challenges the picture of a distant ruler reluctantly persuaded to show mercy. The Father sends the Son because He loves the world. God’s action in Christ reveals His love towards sinners. The One against whom we have sinned is the One who takes the initiative t…
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