Why Wasn’t Jesus Named Immanuel?
Why wasn't Jesus named Immanuel? After all, Isaiah seemed to indicate what the Messiah's name would be. He writes, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a…
Knowledge of God by Faith
Why wasn't Jesus named Immanuel? After all, Isaiah seemed to indicate what the Messiah's name would be. He writes, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a…
The trinity is the view that there is one God, who is eternally present in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Some people will reply, but…
Why didn't the Jews believe in the trinity? Such a question is usually supposed to serve as a theological quagmire for those who believe in orthodoxy. After all, if there…
I have found that most people who do not believe in the trinity just do not understand what it is. So they will use this proof-text that they think disproves…
Suppose one of your friends tells you that they think that there is a ghost in their house. But it is a friendly ghost, who helps them find things and…
Does John 3:5 teach that water baptism is essential? This is a common proof text of people who want to say that water baptism is necessary to enter the kingdom…
In my view, the crowd of 5 point Arminians seems to be quickly dissipating. Most people who I am aware of do not think that it is possible for a…
Everybody in the early church was baptized. If one was to express the fact that they were a Christian, or perhaps even the mechanism by which they became a Christian,…
The focal point of this essay is this question: is Jesus the Father? Let me preface this a tad. The Bible reveals the following three truths: there is one God.…
People who believe in the existence of God are sometimes charged with limiting science, lazily saying that God is the explanation, and therefore we do not need one. While some…
Sometimes religious people will claim that they were healed of cancer, or some other illness. They will have great joy that this sickness has departed their body. Then the atheist,…
False religions throughout world history has men trying to earn favor with God by their own merit. They show God how much they are worth, and God chooses them above…
The book of Acts records a number of occurrences of people being filled with the Holy Spirit and beginning to speak in tongues. Throughout church history, the debate has raged…
Almost in an attempt to muddy the waters and distort the biblical teaching about the person of Christ, some people will argue that Jesus is the person of the Holy…
Yesterday was Good Friday, which is the day that Jesus was murdered for the sins of the world and all of the wrath of God that we deserve was poured…
Christians are plagued with an almost Islamic conception of the Bible. Some even want to say that because Jesus is the Logos (the Word) and the Bible is the word…
Is the Qur'an a perfect book? This is the argument that the Qur'an offers for itself. There is no book that is like it. Muslims maintain that it was dictated…
It is sometimes charged against Christians that they only do good things so that they can be rewarded with Heaven. In contrast, the atheists argue, they do not have such…
A first-century Jew is living very far from Jerusalem and never heard of Jesus during his living ministry. Jesus died for the sins of the world and was raised from…
Is atheist activism a religion? Sometimes believers like to suggest that atheism is a religion, and as such, atheists are religious believers. However I do not think that is true.…