These notes consisted of several notepads that I kept with me over the course of two years (2007-2009). On that paper I scribbled statements that carried my mind, gently, through some of the roughe...
What I write is not a confession of what I practice by faith but what I have perceived to be possibly true at time of writing. What I leave to blind faith, I cannot prove otherwise, so I quest & pr...
Water baptism is an ordinance instituted by Jesus Christ. If it is not important in the plan of God, why did Jesus command it in Matthew 28:19? And why did Peter follow up by saying "every one of y...
We read in the word of God that Christians are already under the judgement of God. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end...
"I am the way..."
That, in just a few succinct words, is the most eloquent definition of faith. It is also a critical component of Christianity that sets it apart from every other religion.
Jesus...
What would the Apostle Peter say if someone interviewed him after Paul had come on the scene? Would there be resentment there as Paul upstaged him in taking the gospel to the world? Why did Paul ...
Salvation is simply belief without any resulting action according to some. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not peris...
We know the Body of Christ began sometime after the Cross, but who had the honor of becoming the very first member of it? Was it Peter at Pentecost or sometime before? Was it Mary as Catholics so...
One can read in the book of Exodus in the scriptures, that he gives Moses several ways in order to persuade the Israelites showing that God was on their side. Prior to the 10 plagues, God gave Mose...
Did the Apostle Paul write Hebrews as most Christians believe today? I'm going to try to prove to you that he couldn't have written it. But if he didn't write it, who did?
The Lord Jesus gave Peter and the twelve some special keys that gave them great authority over the "church." Whatever happened to those "keys"? Does the Roman Catholic Pope have them? Do Baptists...
What baptism means as shown in and by the words of many witnesses, saints, and scholars.
1. Bellarmine (Roman Catholic), Disputations, Vol. III, p. 279: "Ordinarily baptism is performed by immer...
Nothing so divides Christians as the word, "baptism"! Some think infants should be baptized by sprinkling; some believe only adults should be baptized by immersion. But should we even be water-bapt...
The Holy Spirit shares sometimes His omnicience with us in the form of visions. Visions are one of many ways in which the Holy Spirit reveals the will of the Father to us.
The Apostles and their deaths. They were the following by all accounts. (Matt 10:2, Mark 3:16, Luke 6:14 and Acts 1:13) Andrew, Bartholomew, James son of Alphaeus, James son of Zebedee, John, Judas...
If Peter was the "rock" on which Christ built his church, and was among those that the Holy Spirit fell upon at Pentecost, why did he later doubt when he was sent to Cornelius, a Gentile? Didn't h...
What the Sadducees believed. The Sadducees were the conservatives of the time. They held that only the written Torah was authoritative, rejecting the oral law completely. What The Pharisees believe...