It’s pretty common today to hear some Christians say “Theology doesn’t matter.” Sometimes this is not said explicitly but in other roundabout ways like, “Faith over reason” or “All that matters is Jesus.” A good follow up question to that statement is “Which Jesus?” Various religious groups have views of Jesus that differ widely and […]
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Matthew 7:7: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. John 14:13: Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 15:16: You did not choose Me but I chose
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In another post, we looked at who wrote the Gospel of Mark, and before that we looked at who wrote Matthew’s Gospel. Now we will take up Luke’s Gospel. Who wrote Luke? Was the person in a position to record what he recorded? Can we know anything about this author? Did this person have contact
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“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two
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Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Luke 4:8 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Matthew 4:10 The idea that there is one God and that He
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So you’re a non-religious skeptic and you’ve just received a flyer in the mail from a local church about coming to one of their Easter services. You’re tempted to just throw it in the garbage. Your mind says that you should explore this religion first before just rejecting it out of hand. To reject it
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