Throughout history a sword is known to have only two purposes: to preserve life and to take life.  In each case, the shedding of blood is intimately connected to the instrument.  Due to its life and death usage, it seems strange to some people that God would call His Word “the sword of the (Holy) […]

Pandemics, attacks, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, war, poverty, racism, crime of every sort, invasion, political lunacy, digital attacks, fear, espionage, enemies foreign and domestic, threats from foreign countries, etc., etc., … ad infinitum.    People say the world is “in a mess.”  I disagree.  The world IS a mess.  The question that is often asked […]

LIBERAL: Not restricted to the literal meaning.  PROGRESSIVE: Favoring a departure from the traditional.  Liberal progressivism has worked its way into the spiritual and social life of first world countries around the globe.  Having begun many centuries ago, the trend shows no sign of abating in either the religious or the social realms of mankind’s world. As […]

“But I believe ….,” or some variation thereof, is the usual retort when a life-long Christian is shown what God wrote in His Book.  Invariably, His Word refutes a so-called “Bible truth” espoused by the churchite, which is the point at which “But I believe ….” enters the conversation.  The Introduction to this website lists […]

What makes billions of people answer the church’s call to join one of its organizations, to call themselves by the name of that organization and to follow the teaching of that organization that will supposedly get one saved?  The answer: lures.  Very effective lures have been and continue to be used to entice salvation seekers […]

A “lure” is a fake entity designed to entice a subject to investigate, then to embrace it because the subject (victim) is convinced that it is real.  It is the unreal made to appear real by the use of characteristics exhibited by the real.  A fishing lure is a prime example.  The subject/victim is attracted […]

In James 2:21-24 we find the apostle, writing under the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21/ 2 Tim. 3:14-16), stating: “Was not Abraham our (spiritual) father” justified by WORKS when he offered up Isaac on the alter (of sacrifice)?  See how FAITH, along with his WORKS, made his FAITH perfect?  And the Scripture […]

Within two years of the establishment of the New Testament Church in 31 A.D. men were already working to fundamentally transform her by conjoining the teachings of Jesus Christ to the pagan gods, beliefs and practices of Babylonian Mystery religions which, over time, came to dominate the theology of what came to be called Christianity.  […]

In the first posting of this series we studied the first application of God’s message to salvation seeking man which was “OBEY MY WORD.”  Now we will fast forward to the end of the age when Jesus will return to end this present world and create the Kingdom of God from which He and his […]

Beginning with the creation of Adam, man has always dealt personally with the same God Who has had the same message for all men at all times.  The God that Adam and Eve spoke with face-to-fact is the same God that spoke face-to-face with Abraham and Jacob and the same God Who lived with, taught […]