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Clear searchThe peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…orld giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." —John 14:27 Every part of that sentence deserves our attention. Christ leaves peace. He gives His own peace. He does not give as the world gives. Then He speaks directly to the troubled and f…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…azō: to seize, snatch, take forcibly, or carry away. It is used of a wolf catching sheep (John 10:12), an attempt to seize Jesus by force (John 6:15), the Spirit carrying Philip away (Acts 8:39), Paul being caught up to the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2), and the male child be…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…an mean to take or receive someone alongside oneself. Because Jesus uses the same verb in John 14:3—"I will come again, and receive you unto myself"—some argue that the word must describe favourable reception in Matthew 24. That conclusion gives the lexicon the work of the contex…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…merely say that God became loving when creatures appeared. It declares: "God is love" (1 John 4:8). 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 rela…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…r be burned. A servant may face Christ with confidence or shame (1 Corinthians 3:12-15; 1 John 2:28). None of those differences turns the Tribulation into purgatory for Christians whose sanctification was insufficient. The rapture completes bodily salvation; it is not a prize by…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…Him. The destination must be decided from the wider context, not inserted into one noun. John 14 supplies that wider movement. Jesus tells His disciples that He is going to His Father's house to prepare a place for them, then promises: “I will come again, and receive you unto my…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…ke Moses in Deuteronomy 18; the Servant and Kedar in Isaiah 42; the promised Comforter in John 14–16; the Hebrew word maḥămaddîm in Song of Solomon 5:16. Some presentations add other verses, but these are among the most recognisable arguments. They should not be dismissed merely…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…ion is whether it accurately describes the biblical claim that “the Word was made flesh” (John 1:14). Why was the council called? Constantine's first attempt was not a theological decree but a peace mission. He sent Hosius of Cordoba to Alexandria with a letter urging Bishop Alex…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…e saints under the altar Revelation 6 presents the same distinction with unusual clarity. John sees the souls of those slain for the word of God and for their testimony. They cry: “How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…"I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." —John 14:3 The destination in this promise follows the direction of its words: Christ comes and receives His people to Himself, taking them to the Father's house He has prepared for them. Pau…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…safety, and Jewish people are abandoned to an unparalleled holocaust. He then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his criticism is directed particularly towards the language of Tim LaHaye and pop…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
“I Am the First, and I Am the Last” Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ If YHWH alone is Creator, Saviour and Lord of all, what are the New Testament writers saying when they place Jesus within that identity? Isaiah…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…f Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost together (2 Corinthians 13:14). These are not three titles worn successively by one Person. The Son prays to the Father, is loved by the Father before the foundation of the world, and promises that the Father will sen…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…ity replace any part of a real human life. “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). The eternal Son did not unite Himself to a separate human person. He Himself took our nature and became man. This is why the child born at Bethlehem could be called “The mighty G…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…iously translated "the Loving", "the Most Loving" or "the Affectionate" (Surahs 11:90; 85:14). It would therefore be false to claim that love is absent from the Qur'anic description of Allah. Nor is Qur'anic love merely an abstract title. Surah 5:54 speaks of a people "who love H…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…esus was begotten when He rose from the dead, did He only then become the Son of God? Yet John called Him God’s “only begotten Son” before the cross and presented Him as the eternal Word who was already with God in the beginning. I knew those truths could not contradict one anoth…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…y thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5). And: “For thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). Before creation there was not merely a solitary deity possessing an unused capacity for relationship.…
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