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Table of Contents
- Does Sexual Arousal Outside Marriage Damage the Brain? August 18, 2010
- Does Sin Contaminate The Sanctuary? Part 1 September 26, 2008
- Does Sin Contaminate The Sanctuary? Part 2 September 27, 2008
- Donald Trump and Christians: What’s the Attraction? January 22, 2020
- Dr. Jennings Answers a Concern About Materials and Comments Being Racist December 5, 2024
- Dr. Jennings Examines the Arguments and Methods of a Critic August 1, 2024
- Dr. Jennings’ 25 Cannots March 6, 2025
- Drinking the Living Water November 28, 2024
- Dying to Live—Lesson from the Seed October 20, 2022
- Dying-Rising Heroes and How Satan Is Deceiving the World December 18, 2019
- Earth: The Home of the Righteous December 17, 2010
- Effective Communication August 5, 2012
- Eight Signs of Jesus’ Soon Return December 24, 2020
- Elijah Object Lessons for God’s End-time People April 10, 2025
- Elisha and the Shunammite’s Son—An Object Lesson About Christ December 29, 2022
- Ellen G. White and the Gut-Brain Connection April 24, 2025
- Embracing or Denying the Power of God March 27, 2025
- Ephesians 4: Bible Wisdom for Today’s Problems September 28, 2020
- Eternal Fire May 26, 2010
- Every Eye Shall See Him September 20, 2008
- Evidence and History or Claims and Wonders April 13, 2023
- Evidence of a Spherical Earth May 24, 2020
- Exegesis and the Thought Police March 13, 2019
- Explaining Christ to Muslims January 21, 2011
- Faith and Miracles July 25, 2008
- Faith to Triumph Over Every Fear October 14, 2021
- False Allegations about Substitution and Christ’s Mission January 2, 2014
- Fasting: What’s the Point? July 4, 2010
- Fear Is For Children May 30, 2008
- Fear Not the New Year December 28, 2007
- Fear: the Medium of Death; Love: the Elixir of Life March 16, 2014
- Fighting the Good Fight July 27, 2023
- Finding Peace when Life Is Stressful May 15, 2019
- Fire from the Angel of Revelation 14 June 1, 2023
- Five Requirements for Physical Life: An Object Lesson for Spiritual Life July 13, 2023
- Five Steps to Reduce Stress, Improve Immunity, and Decrease Your Risk of Coronavirus Infection March 28, 2020
- Fixing Our Eyes Upon Jesus May 23, 2024
- Flat-Earthers: A Lesson in How We Deceive Ourselves May 20, 2020
- Following Blind Guides in the World Today February 10, 2022
- Forgiveness in the Non-Penal View September 24, 2013
- Forgiveness: What Is It? May 22, 2009
- Forgiving Self – Why Is It So Hard? December 2, 2012
- Free to Disagree: The Protests, the Anthem, and Free Speech September 30, 2017
- Free Will or Predestination—What Is the Truth? November 4, 2021
- Freewill, Foreknowledge, and Open Theism November 14, 2008
- Friends With Jesus April 11, 2024
- Friendship with God March 20, 2009
- Genesis 3: Did God Punish for Sin? July 31, 2009
- Genuine Intimacy – What is it and Can Singles Experience it? July 8, 2012
- God Foreknows and Predestines—What Does It Mean? February 17, 2022
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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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Psalms 23 – The Path to Eternal Life
Several months back, in one of my Bible Studies I shared my understanding of the meaning of the 23rd Psalm – that is is a Psalm of the experience of salvation from sinner to eternal life. Several have emailed me and asked for my take on this psalm, so I have summarized it here. “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” God is watching out for me and I don’t need to worry about where my support will come from. He will provide all my soul needs.
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Medical Marijuana and Psychiatric Illness – A Call to Action
Dr. Jennings submitted the following article to Psychiatric News to consider for publication in their paper, however after several months he has not had a response and is posting it […]
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