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If, as we are told repeatedly, sin is inevitable due to Adam’s fall, how do we explain Abel living until his death in a state of righteousness (Mat. 23:35)?  And how did Cain, who was older than Abel, live even longer before he sinned the first time?  If either had sinned earlier God would have […]

Holiness (obedience to God’s Word/Law) and sin (disobedience to God’s Word/Law) are options which He has afforded  mankind beginning with Adam and Eve.  One must choose one or the other.  Religious fence-straddling relative to those choices is not allowed for He views any such maneuver as sin.  Not one jot or tittle, Word or phrase, […]

It is man’s nature (Satan’s nature that man has embraced) to resist correction.  In 2 Timothy 3:14-16 the Apostle Paul tells Timothy the evangelist to stay focused on the Holy (Old Testament) Scriptures (the New Testament did not yet exist) in that they are Spirit-spoken and good “for forming doctrine, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION and […]

In His Holy Scriptures the Almighty has spelled out in detail His definitions of holiness and sin which are paths leading to either life or death.  He has given to man the power to choose which path he will take and has described for him the results associated with each path.  We are daily confronted […]

  Say the title of this series to a room filled with church people and the laughter, derision and, yes, hatred will be immediately forthcoming.  The most often heard epithet will involve “falling from grace,” of which I have been accused.  The Biblical fact of the matter is that sin is a choice–the most idiotic […]

In the third chapter of the Book of Judges we find that the Israelites have disobeyed God’s direct command to have nothing to do with the heathen among whom they lived.  The Israelites, having free moral agency as do all other people, had done the opposite of God’s commands.  They had married heathen wives and […]

When Bill Clinton was elected to the U.S. presidency it immediately became clear what God was doing.  I will preface the following with a saying I coined long ago following much experience and years of Bible study: “If a person or a nation wants to commit spiritual suicide, God will provide the tree, the rope […]

The answer is “Yes.”  Which, thanks to Satan, creates a very serious problem.  Because the Almighty occasionally blesses a sinner or answers a sinner’s prayer, the automatic assumption is that the recipient of God’s kindness is right with Him.  As the Scriptures repeatedly tell us, this is not necessarily true.  In fact, it is rarely […]

The Almighty calls the spiritual “walk” which is founded on His light (Word/Law) His “good olive tree.”  He calls all other religious beliefs–Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, etc.–Satan’s “wild olive tree” (Rom. 11:17,24).  His describing all other religions as “wild” means that they are not controlled by Him.  Either He or Satan controls every human being and […]