God said, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” When Adam ate of the tree they didn’t die that […]
Stories and Studies
Death
The idea of death has come up several times recently. We need to look at it. There is a rather common piece of machinery called an engine. It is a collection of metals, fluids and other materials that are carefully shaped and fitted together. It may even be an object […]
Word of God
Words are containers into which we pack ideas. Every field of study has own special set of words – its own vocabulary. At the moment we are introducing “the word of God.” We often write things down so we don’t forget. We may write things down for permanent record of […]
The Original Bad
God’s love maximizes options. As He designed the universe everything had a particular task. It was designed to work in certain ways. Everything had certain properties. We can all recognize that two things cannot occupy the place at the same time. This enables us to piece lumber together and build […]
Sin
“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 […]
Some Words Needed
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 […]
Roses and Religion
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 […]
Love Leads to Loving Actions
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 […]
But I Don’t Read Greek
“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 […]