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Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 125)
The Bible asks this question, “Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?” (Jas. 3:11). It’s not possible, is it? It’s either one or the other, but not both. Then, to drive the point home, Scripture asks this question, “Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?” (3:12). Again, that’s not…
The church of the New Testament was vitally important and incomparably valuable to Jesus! He planned it (Eph. 3:10-11), promised it (Matt. 16:18), purchased it (Acts 20:28), and sent the Holy Spirit to establish it (Acts 2:32-47). The church that He started nearly 2,000 years ago is still in existence on this earth today. God planned perpetual existence for His church until…
Is there any evidence for God? Or do we just believe in Him without any real support for it? Is it, for us, the “best explanation” or the “best guess,” or is there something more substantial? Rational creatures will not accept something because it is what they’re told or because lots of people accept it. Rational creatures demand clear evidence and only…
Have you ever considered how much Paul shared his heart with us, as readers of the New Testament? He was not some cold, heartless, callous machine of a Christian, who had no emotions in his service to the Lord. Just the opposite. Consider a couple examples. When Paul thought about his lost friends, he said, “I have great sorrow and continual grief…
There are some people who are very good at giving directions—they can tell you where something is and how to get there. Thankfully, we have a God who is “perfect in knowledge” (Job 37:16), for “His way is perfect” (Psa. 18:30). When He tells us where something is and how to get there (especially the most important directions of all, which concern…
When you pick up the New Testament epistles, so many begin with a greeting like, “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” And that was the common way for the Greeks to send greetings (“Grace”) and for the Jews to send greetings (“Peace”). The fact that these blessings are wished upon the recipients FROM GOD…
Some have tried to justify the appointment of women as deacons in the church (a.k.a. “deaconesses”) by referencing Phoebe in Romans 16:1. In fact some versions of the Bible translate the Greek word in this verse as “deaconess.” Is that not correct? The Greek word used in Romans 16:1 is diakonos. It is found 30 times in the Greek New Testament. It…