Sainthood

Originally posted June 6th 2015 Who makes a Christian to become a saint? Is it our good works? Is it a certain committee that sits somewhere and decides that one has done enough to earn sainthood? Well personal for me and Biblically for all the plain answer is a no! “Why do you say that?” […]

Sexual Immorality Part 2

Originally posted June 20th 2015 In light of the previous post yesterday (on Sexual Immorality Part 1) there are a few things that I want to clarify… What happens if I have done all that was stated, you know, had sex before marriage, watched pornography, masturbated, lusted in my thoughts after somebody (which Jesus equates […]

Sexual Immorality Part 1

Originally posted June 20th 2015 I Cor 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without [outside] the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (KJV) People actually think that we tell people to abstain from premarital and extramarital sex because of sexually transmitted diseases (esp HIV /AIDS) or pregnancy […]

Why does the Canon of the Roman Catholic Church differ from that of the Protestants?

Originally posted November 26 2016 The Protestant Bible, of which the NIV is one version, is seven books shorter than the Bible used by Roman Catholics. But Protestants didn’t just take out books; they used a different standard of what should be in the Bible (Coffman, 2008). The Hebrew Bible has 24 books. This list, […]

The Canon of Scripture

Originally posted November 26, 2016 The subject of the canon involves the question of how many books belong in the Bible. Canon refers to the authoritative list of the books of the Bible. Of course, the individual books were written over a long period of time by various writers (Ryrie, 1986). The word canon is […]