Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan · Spiritual autobiography · 1666
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Clear searchHave Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics?
History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
Have Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics? History, Heresy, and the Temptation of Private Christianity The accusation identifies real evangelical deformations—secret-key religion, escape rhetoric, elite conversion status, and churchless faith—but fails when…
Read article →The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · Christian allegory · 1678
…rable form to truths Christians often know only as abstractions. Bunyan makes conviction, temptation, discouragement, fellowship, perseverance, and hope into places and people that stay in the mind. It rewards rereading because different stages of Christian's journey become more…
View recommendation →Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers
The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…already owes its existence to Him. What If the Visible Is Only the Vestibule? Our natural temptation is to treat the visible universe as the great reality and heaven as a mysterious addition to it. Scripture may invite us to reverse that perspective. Paul describes Christ as the…
Read article →Did Jesus Have a Human Soul?
Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…of those He came to save. He knew bodily weakness, but not bodily weakness alone. He knew temptation, grief, prayer, trust and obedience from within a genuinely human life. This is why His complete humanity matters pastorally. Our high priest does not sympathise with us merely be…
Read article →Does God Remove the Righteous before He Judges?
Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…judgement. Peter draws the conclusion: "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished." —2 Peter 2:9 The point is not that God always removes believers geographically before any local disaster. It…
Read article →Is the Church Appointed to the Tribulation's Wrath?
Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." —Revelation 3:10 Christ does not merely promise preservation from one harmful event. He promises to k…
Read article →One Person, Two Natures
Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…ls which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” — Mark 13:32 We must resist the temptation to answer by creating two speakers. It was not a separate human Jesus who lacked knowledge while a divine Jesus silently knew everything. There is only one Son. The Son truly part…
Read article →Secret Rapture—or Biblical Distinction?
Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…the moral principle from Noah and Lot: “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” —2 Peter 2:9 These accounts do not all follow an identical mechanism, so none is a self-contained proof of a…
Read article →The Foundation and Its Seal
How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…ly debated with ourselves. Youthful lusts must be escaped. This includes more than sexual temptation. Pride, the need to win, impatience, quarrelsomeness and the desire to display one's superiority fit the surrounding context. Second, follow. Christian holiness is not an empty sp…
Read article →The Hope of the Resurrection
Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…he body is truly raised; its mortal condition is gloriously changed. We should resist the temptation to explain every detail beyond what is written, but we must not weaken either side of the testimony. What is a spiritual body? Paul writes: "It is sown a natural body; it is raise…
Read article →The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story
Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…s as the relics of a discarded religion. He declared that they testified of Him, answered temptation from Deuteronomy, interpreted His mission through Isaiah, and insisted that He came not to destroy the law and prophets but to fulfil them (Matthew 5:17; Luke 4:16-21; John 5:39).…
Read article →The Word Did Not Fall into Flesh
The glory philosophy could not contain
…. The Son has dignified the humanity He created by assuming it. He has carried it through temptation without sin, through suffering without disobedience, through death into resurrection and from earth into heaven. What Adam ruined, Christ has begun to restore. The Gospel does not…
Read article →Where Is the Church during Revelation's Judgements?
Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." —Revelation 3:10 The threatened hour is global and has a defined object: earth-dwellers. Immediately…
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