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It is a dangerous thing to mistake religion for salvation. You can join a church, memorize a creed, perform rituals, tithe, sing hymns, recite prayers, confess sins, and still die in your sins. You can be baptized, confirmed, ordained, and even canonized, and still remain as lost as Anton Levey...

Why Morality Is Absolute—and What That Actually Means Christians often claim that morality is absolute, but they rarely explain why. Indeed, most don’t even know why and would be very hard-pressed to explain why if challenged to do so. Even most pastors would have a hard time giving more than a...

I keep hearing people say Calvin believed in immutability and that God never changes, but every time someone tries to prove it, they always quote a single line from the Institutes that, when isolated, sounds strong but isn't airtight by itself. They’ll cite something like: “Nothing more absurd...

To my beloved brother in the faith, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I write to you concerning the knowledge of God, for I perceive that many have been led to think of Him in a way that does not befit His greatness. They say that God’s wisdom consists in His...

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is the first book in a new list of 100 books that everyone should read that I recently posted. I finished reading it yesterday and so I though I'd post a summary of the book here.... Summary of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis In The Abolition of Man...

So, I was watching a movie several evenings ago and the main character was reading the last of a list of 100 books that everyone should read and it inspired me to find a similar list of books to read. I was somewhat surprised to find out how many such lists exist and so I enlisted the help of...

Modern Christianity has a serious problem. Churches today are more concerned with entertainment, emotionalism, feel-good messages and experiences than with sound doctrine, serious theological study and an honest exploration for the truth. Most Christians are content with an intellectually...

Those of you who have a long history with Bob Enyart's ministry will remember a computer program that a friend of his had written that randomized the alphabet and checked to see how many letters ended up in the correct locations. I asked Chat GPT to create a program that does the same thing and...

The doctrine of inherited sin, or the sin nature, is a central tenet of Christian theology. It raises the question of how sin is transmitted from generation to generation and whether Scripture supports the claim that it is passed specifically through the father rather than the mother. This essay...

The following essay is the result of an experiment I performed with a very specific sort of prompt that I used in ChatGPT. I wanted an essay that could serve as a primer for those interested in understanding how Open Theism differs from the "Settled View" and why those who hold to it consider it...

There are two Greek philosophical ideas that have had an inordinate impact on Christian doctrine over the centuries. Absolute immutability, where God cannot change in any way whatsoever Divine Timelessness, where God is not at all temporal and exists entirely outside of time We talk a lot...

Personally, I have been taught from the time I was a child that the so called "Garden Tomb" is the tomb in which Jesus was laid and from which He arose and that He was crucified on the very nearby hill which to this day has an escarpment that resembles a skull. However, I don't recall any...

Panentheism is the view that the universe is part of God while He also transcends it. This doctrine blurs the Creator-creature distinction that is foundational to biblical revelation. In this thread, I want to present and examine some biblical and philosophical arguments arguments against...

I watched a video that cited the following quote. I was so impressed with it that I wanted to share it with you guys here. Remember it the next time some atheist accuses you of making the "God did it." argument. It is they who make such an argument, only it isn't God its mindless evolution over...

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: An Examination of Reformed Theology's Terminology One of the central debates in Christian theology, particularly in regard to the Reformed tradition, is the relationship between God's sovereignty and human responsibility. Reformed theology, as...

I don't know about you but I listen to a lot of hymns. We used to sing them at church when I was kid and the further modern churches have gotten from singing them, the more they lost me as even an attendee, never mind an active member. I particularly enjoy watching the Bill Gaither videos. The...

I've been doing some reading and studying lately. Much of which is in response to some rather wacky arguments that I've been confronted with concerning the issue of divine immutability. I had someone actually attempt to argument that the doctrine of divine immutability logically required the...

I was recently discussing the justice of the death penalty when the person I was talking with brought up the fact that God didn't have David executed for murdering Uriah the Hittite, nor did He let Saul's involvement in Stephen's stoning, which if it wasn't murder, it was certainly an unjust...

I need some help solving this puzzle. I've fiddled with it for hours and hours and I just cannot figure it out. I've looked online for solutions and it seems to be a quite unique version of this puzzle to the point that there isn't a single example of it anywhere online - until now, of...

The two videos below are, without a doubt, the best videos I have ever seen that deal with Einstein's Theory of Relativity in a manner that does not require the ontological existence of time or space and the difference between physics (ontological) vs. mathematics (epistemological). "It is not...