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These stories have been around a long time. Some of them I have updated. Many of them I haven’t. This started out when blogs were like, new!
The Two Dudes In Luke 16
Those who believe the story of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16) is a parable are right. If they also believe it's a parable about a rich man and a poor man, they're wrong. Dressed in the royal color of purple (Judges 8:26) and having five brothers, the rich man,...
The World Of “Annihilation”
Five women (Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, et al.) investigate a dangerous swampland captured by something known as "the Shimmer," previously investigated by military operatives who lost their lives. This is the premise of the recent...
He Said He Went To Hell
Did you ever see the late Dr. Richard Eby, a Christian physician, on Christian TV? Like Bill Wiese, he claimed to have visited Hell (in the guise of an unbeliever) and to have witnessed Revelation's lake of fire. In his telling, the lake of fire is not merely the...
The Deeply Spiritual Film, “Silent Light”
Taking the existence of God for granted, Silent Light (2009) is a truly religious picture---and a superlative one. In it, the head of a Mennonite family living in northern Mexico has confessedly fallen in love with another woman ("confessedly" because he told his...
Better Overhaul The Welfare State
For a long time now, the United States has had imposed on it the concept of Salvation By Bureaucracy. Not spiritual but material salvation. Welcome to our welfare state. It isn't the kind of welfare state we should have, since these bureaucracies are inadequate and...
Savior: Two Items
To redeem us, Jesus Christ did not need to do what condemned sinners are said to do: suffer forever. In Hell. No way. Jesus suffered temporarily. If it wasn't necessary for the Paschal Lamb to suffer forever, why is it necessary for the unsaved? From Psalm 22: ...
Be Saved, All You Ends of the Earth
"Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear" (Isaiah 45, NIV)....
Do They Notice An Outrageousness?
Christian women, like other women, chat about past gatherings with relatives, as on holidays. Obviously they mention mothers and fathers and grandparents and others who have passed on, liking the stories they tell about them, getting a laugh because of them. But...
A Shift In Subject Matter: “Everlasting Destruction”?
So: the anti-Christian persecutors of Second Thessalonians 1 will receive "everlasting destruction." The teaching has long existed that a more proper translation is "destruction of the age," or maybe "age-during destruction." That is, a destruction belonging to an...
