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Burning Cultural Bridges? Repentance and Paul in Athens, Acts 17:22-31

February 20, 2022 1 Comment

Paul’s speech to the rulers of Athens in the Areopagus was a long exercise in deliberate irony, first building and then promptly burning cultural bridges. Paul did this to show them the folly of their deliberate ignorance of the true God.

A God who Speaks, Desire to have our own way, Eternity, Forgetting God, God Acts by Speaking, God is Love, God Never Stopped Speaking, God Speaks to Us, God's Existence and Nature, idolatry, Immanence, Refusing to hear, Rejecting God, Repentance, Sin, The Invisible God's Self-Existence, Truth and Falsehood, What is sin?

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IDOLS = Gods we can Manipulate (Do ut des.)

July 6, 2021 15 Comments

Idols are gods we think we can manipulate to give us our own way, individually, corporately or nationally, through service, sacrifices and offerings. The true God cannot be so manipulated, but we can convert even the true God into an idol in our own minds by supposing that he can be.

Desire to have our own way, Greed, idolatry, Leaving Our First Love, Peril of Seeking Respectability, Religious violence and persecution, Sin, Sins versus sin, Truth and Falsehood, Wars as consequences, What is sin?

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Repentance and Salvation: What is Repentance?

June 11, 2021 6 Comments

Salvation cannot happen without repentance. But this repentance isn’t remorse, it is changing my mind, turning from my own works and my other idols and turning to the true God. It is never really present without a change in the way I live. But my new way of life does not come from me, but from God who has prepared it for me and lives it through me.

Changed treatment of each other, Desire to have our own way, Is forgiveness of sins the focus of salvation?, Merit, Reconciliation, Repentance, Repentance versus Remorse, Salvation, Sins versus sin, Trusting sight over God's words, What is sin?

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ANGELS AND THE ANGELS THAT SINNED OUTLINE

December 19, 2020 3 Comments

Introduction: What are Angels and What was the Sin of the Angels that Sinned? Angels and Spirits—Basic Word Meanings   The Nature of Angels—Messengers and Ministering Spirits Angels as Messengers to God An Angel as Mediator of the Law Angels as Messengers from God Angels’ Roles in the Delivery of Prophecy Though God’s Messengers, Angels’ Knowledge is Limited Angels as…
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A God who Speaks, Angels, Angels and the Ange,s that Sinned, Events and Signs, God Speaks to Us, Index, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Topic Index

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