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Table of Contents
- The Trauma Response and the Media January 26, 2020
- The Tree of Knowledge – Poison or Protection? March 31, 2014
- The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Poison or Protection? October 26, 2020
- The Trinity: Bible Truth or Human Fiction? November 6, 2009
- The Truth About God November 30, 2007
- The Truth About Hell September 2, 2021
- The Truth, A Millstone, and the Sea June 28, 2008
- The Two Ditches: Atheism on the Left, Imperial Dictator God on the Right November 15, 2018
- The U.S. Constitution: A Light About to be Extinguished August 31, 2020
- The Undermining of Religious Liberty in the USA June 11, 2020
- The War Between Chaos and Order: Why Our World Is Descending Into Disorder February 9, 2023
- The Warping of Minds May 12, 2022
- The Wedding Ring: To Wear or Not To Wear October 4, 2010
- The World’s Wisdom Is Foolishness January 7, 2021
- Three Reasons Why Now Is the Biblical “Time of the End” June 3, 2021
- Three Rejections of God by Ancient Israel: An Object Lesson for Us November 17, 2022
- Tithing March 2, 2023
- Top 10 Reasons NOT to Get Married December 2, 2011
- Top 10 Ways To Establish a Healthy Marriage December 23, 2011
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation—A Drug-Free Treatment for Depression May 16, 2024
- Transfiguration: A Conversation Between Jesus, Elijah, and Moses July 28, 2022
- Transgender People and Our Community – A Rational Understanding and Approach November 8, 2018
- Transgenderism December 2, 2021
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment August 7, 2019
- Treasure in Heaven March 23, 2023
- Tree of Life: Real or Metaphor? October 31, 2009
- Trinity – More Questions November 13, 2009
- Truth — How It Unfolds and Advances December 6, 2018
- Turning Evil into Good May 9, 2024
- Two Pictures of God April 28, 2010
- Two Pictures of God (handout) May 26, 2010
- Understanding Bible Commentaries Through Design Law December 7, 2020
- Understanding Ellen G. White’s Quote About the Righteousness of Christ and the Sinner’s Account February 13, 2025
- Understanding Revelation 6 and Being Fully Persuaded in Your Own Mind May 18, 2023
- Unity Versus Division in the World Today March 9, 2023
- Urim and Thummim: Judgment and the Sanctuary March 14, 2024
- Vatican Lists “New Sins” March 15, 2008
- Victorious Living – Now or Then? January 8, 2010
- Victory Through Intimate Love April 20, 2023
- Violence and Turning the Other Cheek November 23, 2007
- Viruses: What Are They and Where Did They Come From? March 17, 2020
- Walking With God November 11, 2021
- Was Jesus a Created Being? December 12, 2008
- Was Sin Inevitable? May 1, 2009
- Welcome to My Blog November 16, 2007
- What Angels Saw at the Cross November 12, 2012
- What Child Is This? December 26, 2008
- What Do “Blood of Jesus” and “Hand of God” Mean? December 18, 2009
- What Does It Mean to Be Guilty of Breaking All of God’s Law? May 30, 2024
- What Does the Law Demand? January 22, 2010
Chronological
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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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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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