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Did Jesus Die for YOU? – Absolutely!

The Cross and Fire

Belief in a “limited atonement” is a doctrinal consequence caused by compromises made by both Martin Luther and John Calvin when they failed to fully reject some of the Catholic heresies during the Reformation.

And even though they were able to break away from the tyrannical control of the Catholic system itself, they still held onto some heretical Catholic theology – evidenced by deeply their doctrines were influenced by the theology of Augustine (an extremely faithful Catholic theologian).

Instead of fully removing the leaven of spiritual compromise from their churches.

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Will A.I.’s Be Restricted from “Doing Harm” to Humans?

robot girl at piano

The path that A.I. will take is inevitable.

Because A.I. will never be any better than the men who have programmed it.

It will reflect and carry out those directives that have been locked within it.

By men.

Making decisions based upon the priorities that the programmers have selected.

Changing our lives based upon the beliefs of those who have the power to direct the course A.I. will take.

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When A.I. ReWrites the Bible

Robot writing on Laptop

I was watching Glenn Beck yesterday on YouTube. He was discussing a report about criminals who are using A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) voice fakes to scam people.

The discussion also revealed that A.I. has been rewriting the biblical book of Genesis. Changing a bit here and a bit there to promote A.I.’s own cultural, moral, and philosophical “preferences”.

(Which would definitely be a more cultural-friendly translation than the KJV I use.)

Which makes me wonder what the Christians who’ve been using the new translations (those other than the KJV) will say about all this?

Or, to put it another way, how in the heck Christians are going to defend the accuracy of their popular Bible texts against the corruptions that A.I. will inevitably produce?

And what foundation such Christians are still presuming to stand upon? When they are challenged to defend the scriptures they claim are divinely inspired of God?

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The End of “So-Called” Tolerance

Thumbs Down Tie Dye

“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25)

Our Postmodern, Post-Christian society thinks that they are unique, intellectual, and thoughtful. And that they are loving and tolerant of all things.

Except, of course, when it comes to having any tolerance for biblical faithfulness.

But, in reality, Postmodernism is simply an ancient idea packaged for consumption by a new generation of wicked men and women.

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Do Doctrines Really Divide the Church?

cute skunk

I heard a phrase recently while listening to a podcast.

A pastor was reviewing the spiritual struggles of the churches over the last 150 years. Basically since the Civil War.

He was discussing the movement of seminaries away from solid, biblical authority. Showing the rise of spiritual Modernism and Liberalism in places like Princeton. And how those trained in the seminaries and Christian colleges brought their weak teachings back to the churches.

Which has been a problem affecting all denominations.

He also spoke of the formation of Fundamentalism, the creation of the National Association of Evangelicals, and the rise of the New Evangelical movement.

New Evangelicalism is a spiritual philosophy that has become the foundation of virtually every church in our modern age.

One of the main “doctrines” of New Evangelicalism is that “doctrine divides while service unites“.

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Who is Doing God’s Work?

Do it my way Woman

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13)

If we do not let the Lord work in us, then the works we produce will be of our own creation. And He will not get the glory. It is either His working or ours; either His Spirit or our own that produces the works.

If we do the work, then the world will not see Christ. They will only see us and our “Christian” good works.

They will see good works done in His name. But not those done in and through His Spirit.

The Father is not glorified in the good works which we do in our own strength. He is only glorified by His own working done by His Holy Spirit.

His works are done by His activity in us; not in our activity dedicated to Him. Even though we may give Him the credit.

We do a good deed for someone. We sing a beautiful solo in church. We preach a great sermon. We give our “tithe”. Or we give extra money for some special project of the church or for some other Christian ministry. We pray for people on our list. We read a couple chapters of the Bible every day.

We help an old lady across the street.

If our Christian “good works” are done according to the intense, devoted, will-power of our own spirit – even out of our own deeply sincere Christian spirit – even with the best of “loving” intentions – then the Lord is not glorified.

God Will Do His Own Work

We are not meant to work on His behalf. We are not here to serve some spiritual cause.

Nor to work for a Christian “movement”. No matter how good that Christian cause may be or how good that movement may be.

We are called to yield to the Lord and rest in Him, by faith.

We are called to obey the truth through the Spirit.

We are called to wait for Him as He works in us to do those things which He wills according to His good pleasure. And according to His timing.

God is not glorified in the strength or dedication or devotion of our Christian “will power”.

The only one glorified by that is the Christian himself.

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The “Law of Love” Cannot Save You

man on back with love stick

There are many forms of the Law.

The Old Testament Levitical priesthood system was the original version.

But men have created innumerable other forms of that system of morals, rules, and rituals to replace the original law.

The very law that the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled. By bringing in another law. A better Law.

Which is the Law of faith.

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By Faith Alone: Part 2 – More Than Fluffy Poetry

light bulbs hanging from sky

The Lord IS the Spirit of Christ – the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is God. He is a Person. He is active and moving within every Christian.

He is the One who lives within us TO DO the things that He has commanded us to do. And to NOT DO the things that we should not do.

This is why the Bible says that we must be “obeying the truth through the Spirit.” (I Peter 1:22)

But what does this mean? Really?

We see that phrase, “through the Spirit“, and then basically walk right on by it. Like we tend to do with a great deal of the word of God.

We tend to see these phrases as a kind of poetic excess that the Lord has put into His word. Or we think that the King James translators suffered from an abundance of flowery language and superfluous rhetoric.

Or that they wrote with a kind of middle-English “God talk”. As some like to say to put down the KJV.

And therefore, the words are not treated seriously.

We ignore incredible spiritual truths that have been placed right in front of us.

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