In Acts 14 we read about Paul and Barnabas traveling through Asia Minor preaching the good news of Jesus Christ. When they came into the city of Lystra, they found the people desiring to treat them as one of their Roman gods because they had healed a lame man. Once the people of Lystra understood […]

Many of those who defend the substitution theory of Christ also use some of the Old Testament stories as proof for Christs substitution. Do any of the Old Testament analogies we frequent show substitution? Let us take a moment to consider a few of them.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR ISSAC
The offering of the ram instead of Isaac […]

Earth Day and Mother Earth
[Last week] marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of “Earth Day” by former Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. It [was] also V.I. Lenins birthday — which is no coincidence. Nelson modeled his anti-capitalist protests after anti-Vietnam War demonstrations of that era. Today, the so-called “environmental movement” he helped spawn has devolved […]

“For Moses truly said to the fathers, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from […]

1 Peter 2:24
If Jesus did not literally have the sins of the world placed upon him, then what did Peter mean in 1 Peter 2:24, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed”? I […]

Prayer Punishment
The ACLU has asked a federal judge to punish school officials for allowing a pre-game prayer at a high school baseball game. Louisianas ACLU director called the brief prayer for player safety “un-American and immoral” and says that school board members should be fined or jailed for failing to stop it. Last month a […]

The next usage of the words translated for church and assembly appears in Acts 21 and verse 22. In this instance, Paul has reached Jerusalem and has just completed his explanation of the situations that he had come upon as he had been teaching to the non-Jews during his last tour through the churches in […]

Jesus Became Sin (2 Corinthians 5:21)
2 Corinthians 5:21-”He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (HCSB). “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God […]

In our last article we introduced the problem of the substitution theory. I believe a couple quotations will easily summarize the problems we considered last time. “The great Baptist preacher Charles H. Spurgeon said: “If Christ has died for you, you can never be lost. God will not punish twice for one thing. If God […]

I was really disturbed at the passing of Pope John Paul II. I was not disturbed at the passing itself, since it seemed that the man had only days to live. What I was disturbed by was the way people in the news and in our society were speaking about the deceased pope. Allow me […]