January 2020

Quotable

January 1, 2020

Even if we are successful at helping someone turn away from atheism , it doesn’t necessarily put them in a much better position regarding their eternal destiny. Eternal life is granted not to those who simply believe in “God” but only to those who believe in the God of the...Read more

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Letters

January 1, 2020

Dear TBC, Dave Hunt’s book Whatever Happened to Heaven ? is, of course, the best resource to counter “The Send” and shows that there is nothing new under the sun with all the false teaching out there. CW (email) Dear TBC, God’s goodness, perfect holiness, and righteousness reveal evil for...Read more

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Question: How has God “won” if there are more souls in hell than in heaven?

January 1, 2020

Question: “...[B]road is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat” ( Matthew:7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: See All.....Read more

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Question: Is God the author of evil?

January 1, 2020

Question: In In Defense of the Faith , I liked your explanation of “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” ( Isaiah:45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the...Read more

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Question: What are your thoughts on Christians who take their own lives?

January 1, 2020

Question: What are your thoughts on Christians who take their own lives, and what do you believe will happen to them? Response: The scriptures are not silent on the subject, including the stories of those who committed suicide (King Saul and Judas, et al). One thing is certain. The sixth...Read more

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Question: Aren't dead souls "asleep?"

January 1, 2020

Question: You once used the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to support the pagan idea of the immortality of the soul. What scripture do you use to support the idea that the “soul” is a separate entity from the body? Ecclesiastes:9:5 For the living know that they shall...Read more

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What God Wants of You

January 1, 2020

Belief in God as Creator and in His authority as well as in our responsibility to Him is almost universal among men. The fact that our daily lives do not measure up to God’s standards is also quite generally conceded, but the solution to this evident shortcoming is the subject...Read more

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Nuggets from Occult Invasion—Mary or Sophia?

January 1, 2020

One of the most spectacular apparitions of Mary was seen not by the usual visionaries in an altered state, but by multitudes of ordinary people—and in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt: “It was…witnessed by at least a million Egyptians…and yet the Western press…and Christianity in particular all but totally ignored...Read more

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Sham Interfaith Group Partners with CAIR, Features Anti-Semite

January 1, 2020

The Interfaith Action Group of Southwest Florida, like most interfaith groups, holds events with participants from different religions. It seems, though, when it comes to Islam , the group favors representatives from the radical Muslim organization CAIR. That was the case last month, as Interfaith Action featured, as one of...Read more

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