5 Reasons to Study Greek
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“Learning biblical Greek will require some drudgery but as they say no pain no gain.” - Ward on Words
What Is the Meaning of “Vanity” in Ecclesiastes?
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“The overall message of Ecclesiastes is not that life is absurd, or that it is temporary, but that humans must live with many questions that they cannot answer.” - Word by Word
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Russell Moore Warns Christians Not to ‘Track’ Jesus’ Return ‘Based on the Bombing Schedules of Israel and Iran’
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“Jesus told us that what would shock people about his return is not the drama that’s leading up to it…but the ordinariness.” - C.Leaders
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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)
Published as a single article in DBSJ 2 (Fall 1997): 81–103. Used by permission. Read the series.
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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You’re Not a Monkey’s Uncle: It’s time to retire the myth that humans are 99% the same as chimps.
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“The diploid alignment was even more dramatically divergent, showing a difference of 16.11% between humans and chimps. When sex chromosomes were analyzed, chimpanzee X chromosomes were over 20% different from ours, and Y chromosomes were an astonishing 95.68% different!” - Breakpoint
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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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