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PHall | December 19, 2024
Is it hard for some to forgive because they have become addicted to the hurt? Just as drugs and alcohol are the numbing comfort to an addict’s pain, can pain itself become the drug? The “familiar”, even when destructive, is less frightening than the unfamiliar because staying hurt is easier than being hurt again. The […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Hell Is Not Our Home Hell can never be home for lost people because it was created for Satan and his angels (Matthew 25:41), not for us. When a person is saved, they get to go home to be with God since God created us to be together with Him – we dwell with God […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Simplifying the Thief on the Cross Forget for now that the thief lived and died under the Mosaical Law and Jesus’s Covenant didn’t become effective until after He died (Hebrews 9:16-28). Forget for now that we don’t know if the thief had been previously baptized by either John or Jesus’s apostles before he was captured […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
The cross is a stumbling block and foolishness to Jews and Gentiles in the first century. It still is today, but not how we think. Back then the gospel audience rejected Jesus because the cross contradicted what they believed. For Jews, how could their Messiah be convicted and crucified? For Gentiles, the cross by metonymy […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
The GOSPEL in John 3:16 The word “gospel” is not found in John 3:16 which says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” But now notice how the word “GOSPEL” is found in John 3:16: G – […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Jesus began His incarnated life by coming to be born on earth; and ended His life by leaving this earth to return to Heaven. What other “contrasts” and “opposites” are there between Jesus’s birth and death? 1. Jesus began His incarnated life with a Scripture affirming, “God with us”; and ended with a Scripture asking, […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
God said to Adam, “The day you eat from it you will certainly die” (Gen.2:17). Satan tempted to Eve, “You certainly will not die” (Gen.3:4). Then Adam and Eve ate but didn’t die. In defending God, some have suggested: 1. They did die that day, spiritually. Agreed, but is that what God meant in 2:17? […]