The Moral Nightmare of Losing Our Religion

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“What Harari missed was that if humanity has no purpose and, as he put it ‘nothing that exists is unnatural,’ why would prejudice or persecution be wrong when sexual deviancy is not?…By removing the very concept of evil, Harari has no way to call anything evil.” - Breakpoint

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Does the Believer Have One Nature or Two? (Part 1)

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Published as a single article in DBSJ 2 (Fall 1997): 81–103. Used by permission.

In recent times the popular radio preacher and author, John MacArthur, has attacked the idea of two natures in the believer. He says at one point: “If you are a Christian, it’s a serious misunderstanding to think of yourself as having both an old and new nature. We do not have a dual personality!”1 Similar attacks have come from a number of others. J. I. Packer says: “A widespread but misleading line of teaching tells us that Christians have two natures: an old one and a new one.”2 John Gerstner labels the two-nature viewpoint “Antinomianism.”3 Are these attacks justified? Is it unbiblical to speak of two natures within the believer? This essay purposes to tackle the issue.

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What Do Christians Obey from the Old Testament and Why?

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“What causes certain Old Testament laws to cease to be literally normative for Christians today? The primary reason is that Christ fulfilled the law through his life and death in our place. God has also brought about changes in redemptive history that adjust how we relate to certain laws.” - 9 Marks

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Ecclesiastes on X: Why we’re not satisfied, even if we should be.

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“On the other hand, a different doom and gloom, the kind reflected in the X post above, still resonates with many. In fact, it sounds a bit like a work of poetry written almost 3,000 years ago by a man of wealth and power who learned that ‘having it all’ isn’t all it is cracked up to be.” - Breakpoint

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