One of the more arrogant Christian teachings when I was growing up was “Outside the Church there is no salvation.” That statement reeks of a gatekeeper mentality – that the church should decide who gets saved and who doesn’t. This embarrassing teaching has softened in recent years, as formal clergy […]
Jesus Christ
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As Iran becomes more aggressive every day towards Israel, that country is setting the stage for the Gog-Magog war. The LORD…declares: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of […]
Planet Earth may be approaching the End Times and the Apocalypse. The Rapture will be the key. If the Rapture happens, the world will be on notice that the Wrath of God is coming.
By using an example of Noah and the Flood when speaking of the Rapture, Christ was stating that it will be followed by God’s judgment on the world.
A Christian Legend in The Spirit War The centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened. They were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!” And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how […]
The Good Thief was blessed with the two necessary elements for salvation. He showed remorse, acknowledging that his own wrongdoing put him up on his cross. And he appealed to Jesus to save him.
Willful ignorance of evil, or mocking the very concept of evil, both short-circuit contrition for sin.The first condition for forgiveness is acknowledging that a wrong has been committed and being sorry for it. A sin unconfessed, or a sin for which there is little or no regret, cannot be forgiven because the condition of contrition is not met.
8 June 2020 Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia and has a population of five million. The country has a sophisticated universal public health system that in the US would be called single payer. The “Caja,” as it is popularly called, has done a very good job […]
New Spirit War Logo First, about the new logo at the top of the left sidebar. The Spirit War trilogy goes out into the world from this author’s dual roots – Costa Rica and the USA. This logo shows Christ’s cross shining out from the union of these countries’ flags. […]
Post 5 – 8 May 2019 Wheat and Weeds in the World Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When […]
Post 3 – 20 May 2019 One of the main themes of the Bible is that humanity, and creation, are fallen. People and a world created by a perfect God are in a far-from-perfect state. Humans are not the first intelligent created beings in the Bible. In eternity past, before […]