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- If You Were a Faithful Jew 2,000 Years Ago • September 5, 2024
- Imperial versus Design Law Judgment: New Insights into Daniel 7 • August 10, 2023
- Imputed and Imparted Righteousness—Design versus Imposed Law • April 4, 2024
- Imputed Righteousness • March 5, 2010
- Interracial Marriages • June 27, 2010
- Is a “Just War” Possible? • March 3, 2022
- Is Cancer Your Own Fault? • July 11, 2010
- Is Dr. Jennings Advancing Unity or Causing Division? • June 6, 2024
- Is God Punishing the World with Natural Disasters? • September 22, 2017
- Is Masturbation Harmful? • November 20, 2009
- Is Sincerity Enough? • February 23, 2023
- Is The Great Controversy Over God’s Character True? • September 10, 2011
- Is There Absolute Truth? • February 5, 2010
- Is Your Christianity Real? • September 7, 2023
- Isaiah One: A Message for the Church Today • December 31, 2020
- Israel and the Promised Land Today • March 24, 2022
- It Is Time to Flee the Beastly Systems: Jesus Is Coming Soon! • September 29, 2022
- Jerusalem, Christians, and End-Time Methods • December 8, 2017
- Jesus Is Both Good and Safe! • September 22, 2022
- Jesus our Advocate & Mediator – For What? • August 14, 2009
- Jesus Paying Our Debt To God • October 14, 2013
- Jesus – Healing Light or Ruling Judge? • October 13, 2020
- Jesus’ Human Nature • August 28, 2009
- Jesus: Angry Executioner or Baby of Bethlehem? • December 25, 2009
- Jesus: The Right Hand of God • November 30, 2023
- Job: A Cosmic Overview—and Seven Truths to Prepare for Christ’s Return • November 3, 2022
- Joseph and Social Injustice: Lessons for Society Today • October 7, 2021
- Joseph: A Foreshadow of Christ • June 9, 2022
- Joy in the Midst of Sorrow • June 12, 2024
- Justification by Faith • September 9, 2021
- Keeping the Faith in the Last Days • January 6, 2022
- King of the North versus South and Today’s End-Time Events • August 12, 2020
- Knowing God’s Will for Your Life • April 29, 2021
- Knowing Jesus and His Word • February 20, 2025
- Knowledge and Feelings • March 1, 2008
- Last Generation Theology • October 13, 2022
- Laughter, Health, and God’s Law • April 30, 2019
- Lazarus and the Rich Man • January 12, 2023
- Lazarus, Miracles and Faith What is the Connection? • November 5, 2010
- Learn to Discern: How to Determine What Is True • July 14, 2020
- Lectio Divina: A Biblical Meditation Practice • May 25, 2023
- Light Becoming Darkness • December 28, 2023
- Listener Concerned Dr. Jennings Is Being Foolish • January 28, 2021
- Living in the Land of Liars: Part 1 • April 1, 2021
- Living in the Land of Liars: Part 2 • April 8, 2021
- Living Stones in God’s Temple • December 11, 2009
- Loneliness: Its Cause and Cure • May 6, 2021
- Look to Jesus • June 16, 2022
- Love and Boundaries • November 7, 2008
- Love Compels to Discipline, but Law Compels to Punish • November 14, 2024
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Why Did God Use Law?
A theologian recently posed the following question to me: What was the purpose of the “ceremonial law”? Why is it “changeable” (or “fulfill-able; what was “fulfilled)? When White says “The Holy Spirit saw good not to impose the ceremonial law on the Gentile converts, and the mind of the apostles regarding this matter was as the mind of the Spirit of God,” (AA194),
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The Tree of Knowledge – Poison or Protection?
I have been thinking a lot about how God is a God of love and not a cruel God. I have gotten to a point that i cant think past, What was the point of God putting the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil in the garden. I just don’t see the point in it. the only thing that could come out of that tree was death but still God put it there.
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False Allegations about Substitution and Christ’s Mission
Recently, I have noted, from online forums and emails, a resurgence in the number of people who misunderstand what our ministry teaches. It appears these misunderstandings arise out of false assumptions. For instance, if we say we don’t believe in “penal substitution,” then some individuals allege we don’t believe in the substitutionary nature of Christ’s death, which of course is not true.
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Bible Genocide & A God of Love
Can you please explain the genocide that occurs in the Old Testament. For example God orders the Israelites to go and wipe out certain nations. The reason held is because if they don’t, then the influence on the Israelites will lead them away from God. How do you reconcile this order with the picture of a loving God?
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Appeasing an Offended God, What It Really Means!
This week, an online viewer to my weekly Bible Study Class asked how I understand this quotation from an article in Signs of the Times Dec 23, 1886: The altar and the promise stand side by side, and one casts clear beams of light upon the other, showing that the justice of an offended God could be appeased only by the death of his beloved Son.
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What Does the Veil Represent? – Satan or Jesus?
Thanks for your SS lessons which I watch without fail as they become available. Loved lesson 4’s typology. However, there is so much symbolism in Jesus being the 2nd veil, which I have summarized below:
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Jesus Paying Our Debt To God
I just saw this quote and wanted what your understanding of it is: The servant who had defrauded his master had nothing with which to make restitution. The sinner who has robbed God of years of service has no means of canceling the debt. Jesus interposes between the sinner and God, saying, I will pay the debt. Let the sinner be spared; I will suffer in his stead. {Review & Herald, December 14, 1911 par. 16}
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Forgiveness in the Non-Penal View
In this non-penal picture of God, when I ask Him to forgive me, what am I asking Him to do? And then, following that vein, when I ask a person to forgive me, what am I asking them to do?
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The God-Shaped Brain Changing Lives
The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life was released by Intervarsity Press in late April 2013. Since its release it has been extremely well received […]
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Biblical Keywords: Comparing Definitions
Many times, on theological topics like justice, judgment, atonement, satisfaction, etc., we encounter conflicts with those who oppose or do not appreciate what we are saying. Comparing how these and […]
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Why Does the Law Demand the Life of the Sinner?
How do we harmonize quotes like this one, or perhaps is there a better way to say it?: “On the Day of Atonement the high priest… went into the most […]
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