Was Solomon a true believer who "lost his salvation"?
First Kings 11 records the tragic account of Solomon’s doing great evil against the Lord late in his life:
A Covenant in the Garden?
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“Consider two points drawn from Strong’s treatment of the matter. First, Strong points out that though the word covenant does not appear in Genesis 2, the necessary elements of a covenant are clearly there. These necessary elements are the ideas of stipulation and reward.” - Ref21
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Another Unconvincing Case for Egalitarianism
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“While for Bartlett each side makes important contributions to our understanding of the Bible’s teaching on women and men, and ‘each side needs to move beyond the confines of the existing debate and closer to each other’…. Bartlett clearly argues for an egalitarian position.” - TGC
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The Covenantal Landscape of the Old Testament, Part 1
From the forthcoming book The Words of the Covenant: Old Testament Expectation. Read the series.
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Review: Laurence M. Vance’s Archaic Words and the Authorized Version
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“I hope to show that Laurence M. Vance’s book, Archaic Words and the Authorized Version is simply and fundamentally and clearly wrong, gloriously wrong, infamously wrong, precisely at the point of its central thesis.” - Mark Ward
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Gene Veith reviews “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World”
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Athiest historian Tom Holland “shows just how different Christian values and ethics were from those of the Greeks and the Romans and how the Christian mindset has prevailed in Western Civilization even among his fellow secularists.” - Veith
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The Old Gods or the New? A Review of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World”
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“Strange Rites explores and analyzes seven different movements in contemporary modern American life, all of which function—at some level—as new faith systems after the decline of mainline Protestantism. The current age, for Burton, is decidedly not secular.” - John Ehrett
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2 Samuel 13 and Justice for Rape Victims
Second Samuel 13 reveals the horrible and tragic account of Amnon’s raping his half-sister Tamar and of what happened in their lives as a result of what he did to her.
1. According to Scripture, what was the just punishment that Amnon should have received for his raping her? Did he receive that punishment?
2. According to Scripture, what comprised the just handling of this matter for Tamar, given that she was completely innocent and not responsible for what happened to her?
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The Reformation at 500: The Papal Bull (Part 2)
Read Part 1.
“Since God has given us the papacy,” Pope Leo X stated dramatically, “let us enjoy it.”
There was one man standing in the way of such enjoyment, however. Leo had little regard for the priest in Wittenberg, Dr. Martin Luther, who he referred to as “a drunken German.”
“He will feel different when he is sober,” concluded the pope.
His ability to underestimate Luther could not have been more profound.
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Mind the Story: A Bible Reading Lesson from Ron Horton
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“In Alive to the Purpose: The Readerly Reading of Scripture (Greenville, SC: JourneyForth, 2020), the late literary scholar and Bob Jones University professor Ronald A. Horton seeks to correct unbalanced Bible study. There are multiple legitimate ways to study, but neither special study nor perfunctory reading should keep us from seeing Scripture for what it is.
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