by E.O. | Feb 12, 2024 | Christianity, God's Love, Law, Rules
Old Testament Law Humans are lawmakers. We all have reams of regulations stored in our heads. We think highly of our own rules and are scornful of rules that contradict them. We get angry at people who break our rules, even when they have no idea what those rules...
by E.O. | Sep 6, 2022 | Christianity, Deliverance, God's Love, God's Nature, God's Sovereignty, Grace, Salvation
Good News Christianity is sometimes referred to as the Good News. What’s so good about it? Even if you don’t believe in the God of the Christians, you ought to know what Christians believe, in order to understand why billions of people have chosen to believe. The Good...
by E.O. | Sep 8, 2021 | Christianity, God's Nature, Jesus as God
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. This verse gives us more support for the idea of the trinitarian God, and it shows some of the difficulty associated with talking about him. A rephrasing of the verse would be...
by E.O. | Sep 8, 2021 | Christianity, God's Love, Grace, Salvation
15.(John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) We will look at the testimony of John the Baptist shortly, as this verse is repeated in verse 30 as a part of a fuller...
by E.O. | Aug 22, 2021 | Christianity, God's Sovereignty, Salvation
…who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John continues to describe the wonderful consequences for those who trusted Jesus. John has identified them as becoming children of God, which is like saying they have been...
by E.O. | Aug 22, 2021 | Christianity, Faith, God's Love
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God… So far John has focused on the sad irony of a created people rejecting its Creator. He shifts his focus here to point out that, in contrast to the general...
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