ORIGINAL SIN: When confronted with his sin (the breaking of God’s Law), Adam blamed God for giving him Eve who had had offered him the forbidden fruit, which he felt compelled to do partake of because she wanted him to (Gen. 3:11,12). In his thinking, God and Eve shared equal guilt in his downfall. When […]

SALVATION (BORN AGAIN) IN THIS LIFE: In John 1:1-4,14 we find the premier description of the Old Testament God with Whom certain people, beginning with Adam, dealt with personally and face-to-face (Gen. 3:8). Eve, Cain and Abel also communed with the Old Testament God on a personal level as did such Biblical luminaries as Abraham […]

CHRISTMAS: In the Book of Jeremiah we find the Lord making a general statement that, if obeyed, would remove many of Institutional Christendom’s sins that have been instrumental in her rejection of the Biblical God and her embracing of His enemy. In chapter ten verse two the Lord declares to His people: “LEARN NOT THE […]

What the Almighty calls “Doctrines of Devils,” billions of people call “the will of God.” That same God says about those people that they: “ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE” (Hos. 4:6). Read Who Are My People Called by My Name? and Who Are God’s People? and Who and Where is Israel Today? Key words–Called, […]

In Second Thessalonians 2:3 the Lord, through the Apostle Paul, is addressing the church at Thessalonica concerning a theological error that was gaining credibility in the hearts of some of the congregants. Some were in fear that THE DAY OF THE LORD AND THE RETURN OF JESUS CHIRST WERE AT HAND. In his epistle, Paul […]

At some point in a person’s life, God’s singular, universal purpose for his/her existence on this earth will be made known to him/her. That purpose is to walk (live) in a state of holiness, righteousness and godliness until that life ends. Either in this life or during the thousand-year millennium that will follow the return […]

Having grown up in a religious setting and having been “in church” all of my life (I am 83), I would not try to guess how many times I have heard: “God has a purpose for your life.” Admittedly, those words were true relative to me personally. Miracles have been performed that told my family, […]

In the final posting of this series we will look at several specific statements that cause most of the problems involved in the Justification/Salvation Conundrum. Recall that Paul is writing to converted Gentiles who knew that the sacrificial law was “added” because the Israelites would not obey God’s Ten Commandment Law. God (the Word Who […]

In the following segment we will focus our attention on the Biblical passages that are most often used by Satan to cause church people to believe themselves to be “saved, sanctified and born again,” not one word of which is Biblically true. The problem has historical roots that reach back some 1900 years to the […]

Like all of the many church “truths’ that are the opposite of God’s Biblical Truth (Word), the deadly misunderstanding highlighted by the name of this series has a cause. Regardless of the subject in question, the cause of any spiritual problem can be summed up in the following Biblical warning about the Lord’s “Cause and […]