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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? […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
The Great Reversal “The Great Reversal” begins in Acts 8:1. The scattering after the persecution is the exact opposite of Acts 2, wherein there people gathered on Jerusalem. While that is a significant evangelism shift needed today, from people coming to us (i.e., our church buildings), to us going to them, that is not “The […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
Destroy the Patriarchy? Our American culture today is intent on “dismantling the patriarchal system”. Is this system Biblical? If so, is dismantling it a sound idea? Progressives claim Patriarchy is a social construct caused by sin. 1. If so, then why did God choose to be constrained by mankind’s prejudices by calling Himself Father? 2. […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
John 3 is is commonly known for teaching about being born again. One segment has always baffled me, and so we have this Thought Exercise. That segment is verse 8 (CSB) “The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
There’s Always Been Two Choices There’s always been two choices, two paths, two decisions. It started in the Garden of Eden. The enigmatic tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil can be understood simply. Obeying God by not eating led to life and functioning as God intended – Good. Eating led to death and […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
5 “Solutions” to the Problem of Evil There is one area in which theists and atheists agree – there is an abundance of pain and suffering in this world. There are a few options on how atheists and theists must deal with this agreed upon problematic reality: 1. Suffering exists despite God is good. 2. […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
What Happened on that Cross? What happened on the cross? Did Jesus literally become a sinful creature? Both Classical Calvinism and its modern version of Reformed Theology teach that Jesus’s righteousness is imputed to us. They picture this as an umbrella covering us, which leads to once saved always, because we are covered by Jesus’s […]