Part 1 / Lesson 2 – THE ETERNAL ONE GOD The writer of Hebrews said that when we come to God we must first believe that “He is.” The Bible shows that Jesus was God incarnate. This teaching is the single most defining issue of the New Testament. The word “incarnate” in Latin means “in” and “flesh.” […]
What you believe does matter. The eschatological view known as “dispensationalism” believes that the world will someday be led by a despotic leader that they call “the Antichrist.” The New York Times article, Why the Antichrist Matters in Politics, explains how this belief does influence policy making in Washington DC. There is nothing wrong with the Bible being […]
The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures. It was translated between 300-200 BC in Alexandria, Egypt, and was used by the Hellenistic Jews since the Hebrew language was less common as the Children of Israel spread throughout the Greek empire. The term “Septuagint” means “seventy” in Latin. Often the Septuagint is identified […]
Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) In this verse, Paul is referring to those who are self-serving and have made their lusts their god. The belly was seen as the seat of person’s desires. Paul refers to this same […]
Question: Would you kindly explain who the “god of this world” is in 2Co 4:4? In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them (2Co 4:4). Answer: A person’s view […]
Question: Bro. Burk, in John 5:20 we hear Jesus telling us that “the Father loves the Son…” If this passage was written in question form it would read, “Who is loving Who?” And from my conversations with certain oneness apostolic believers, “Son” is always a reference to the flesh, so I have been told this […]
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Since there is only One God, why did Jesus ask, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Was He schizophrenic? Did He suffer […]
If Jesus Christ has all power and authority at this moment, and if He sits on the throne of Heaven as God Almighty, how is it that the world is still so painfully overrun with evil and corruption? Such a thought has lead Futurists to believe that Jesus will someday return to destroy all the […]
