The Gospel Of Repentance

Why don’t we make the question more compelling, “since God is so loving why is there so much evil in the world?” There are varying reasons why people ask this question. Some ask the question with an unthankful, irreverent, angry attitude toward God. They think they can demand an answer from God as if the Lord is obligated to answer them. I believe others ask the question out of sheer fear of God. They are genuinely disenchanted and confused about what the Lord is apparently not doing – why He allows all this suffering to continue. Then there are others, those that are Christians who want to trust God but have no idea why He is delaying His judgment with all the wickedness going on everyday; and the Lord sees it all, at one time!              Most of the world see the ongoing wars, the poverty of people and especially young children, the disease, senseless murders, the rape of women and children, dope dealing, drug abuse, gangs, the rich getting richer, the poor getting po

Apparent Contradiction #3 A concern regarding the time of Jesus crucifixion: In Mark 15:25 we read that Jesus was crucified at the third hour of the day. But in John 19:14 we read that Jesus was crucified around the sixth hour. There is an obvious contradiction isn’t there?              Let’s examine these two verses carefully. First of all we need to determine the audience the writers were addressing. Mark was writing to a Jewish audience. For the Jews a day begins at 6:00 am. So, the third hour of the day would have been 9:00 am for them; the time when Jesus was crucified.                When John wrote his gospel, he was not residing in Israel. He was in the city of Ephesus; a city in Asia Minor – a Roman province. The Romans are on a different time system than the Israelites. A Roman day begins at 12:00 midnight like our days here in America. So for those residing in Roman colonies, the sixth hour of the day would be 6:00 am when Jesus was crucified. But on th

The statement is indeed true. There are ”a pparent” contradictions in the Bible; but these apparent contradictions are “genuine” as far skeptics and critics are concerned. That is why they do not trust the  Bible. If there are indeed contradictions in the Bible, then we have to conclude God is not the author and we as Christians are without hope; we have believed a lie because man would be its author and that would make the whole document flawed because man is flawed due to sin. While the writer has not discovered every alleged contradictory scripture reference, we will examine a couple to see if the critics have a leg to stand on.                                                                                 Apparent contradiction #1 – The skeptic says, “In James 1:13 it says that God cannot be tempted with evil, but you Christians who claim Jesus is God was tempted in all points according to Hebrews 4:15.  These two verses contradict one another. For one says God cann

                                                             B y Delvin Arnold Take care brothers lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart leading you away from the living God. But, exhort one another everyday as long as it is called today that none of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin                                                                                                                         -Hebrews 3:12-13 The writer of Hebrews is exhorting the believers to remain in faith and not to be unbelieving as their ancestors were during the time of Moses in the wilderness wanderings. Their unbelief led to their death, and them not entering into God’s rest (Psalm 95:7-11). So, what sins are you engaged in, enjoying that have deceived your heart, led you astray? What vices have captured you to the point where you initially felt guilty about the sin, but now since you are practicing it, you are now enjoying your perversion, justifying

Shocking statement? To most it definitely is. Why would I make what seems like a most blasphemous phrase? Well, before anyone brands me a heretic let me defend my position. There are indeed statements in the Bible that are simply not true. In fact, the Bible records lies.                        Let me explain. In John 8:41 the religious leaders said to Jesus that they were not born of fornication. In the 48 th verse they said Jesus had a demon. Neither one of these statements are true of Jesus, but it is true that the statements were made. Although I’m sure this is obvious to most readers, but to perhaps some, this may not be obvious. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this account, they may be led to believe that these remarks regarding Jesus are true because they are recorded in scripture. We know that Jesus was virgin born. The religious leaders underlying thinking was very insulting. By saying they were not born of fornication, they were implying that Jesu

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created them. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good .                                                                                                                         -Genesis 1:26-27;30         In the book of Genesis 6:5-7 we come to a dichotomy in God’s character. These verses read, Then the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was very sorry that He had made man on earth, and He was grieved at His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things

The term antediluvian means pre-flood. From the creation of the universe in Genesis 1 up to Genesis 6 was the existence before the flood of Noah. I want to concentrate in particular on  some the activity in the sixth chapter of Genesis. In Genesis 6:1-4 we read, Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves all of whom they chose. And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not always strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” [1] There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children  to them, those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. There are two views regarding who the sons of God are. The first view is that they are angels and second view is that they ar