“The soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4, 20), “For the wages of sin is death” Rom 6:23). Now that is some tough language. Sounds like we do well to look into this. Let’s lay down several passages to get started. Perhaps the most famous one reads like this in […]
Sometimes we find ourselves in puzzling, even heated conversations only to find out something was misunderstood. Words are containers into which we pack ideas. At times both of us need to peek into the containers to see if the contents match. My caterpillar may be eating up the tomatoes while […]
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:25-27) James gets right down […]
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he […]
“God had a library assembled into a book, a permanent record, so we could navigate a difficult detour back to the main road of life.” That is how we ended the last discussion. There are some things that need to be addressed about the Bible before we go to other […]
