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No, it's just that we don't have to tell unsaved people the deeper doctrines while we are calling them to believe in the basic truths dealing directly with their need to accept Jesus' offer of his rescue from their imperfections because of his love for them. I said, "that truth," that is, election.

Yes, the northern kingdom of Israel had "committed adultery" against God by chasing after other gods. Hosea had to picture that situation by marrying a prostitute, who would chase after other men in her sinful rebellion. So, the backsliding is apostasy from God's covenant with them, not from...

No, Christ's saving death saves everyone the Father wants to save. Why he doesn't save everyone is a mystery because he hasn't revealed it. It must be a very good reason, but I assume we will know it when Jesus comes again. Sin and Satan never control God; the perfect example is Job 1 and 2...

Very true, messy! I categorize unresolved concurrences as mysteries we must accept because it is God's inspired Word. The Trinity, Jesus' divine and human natures, and his providential plans with humans' full responsibility for their lives come to mind as mysterious truths of God's Word that are...

No, it's not time until the Roman Catholic Church repents of adding an extra-biblical, authoritative tradition in addition to the Bible.

Why would you ever tell an unsaved person about that truth, with which I agree, by the way. If it doesn't come up, which it won't in our western culture, we need to put that true doctrine into our churches' educational programs for when they are growing believers.

Where in the world did you get these unbiblical assumptions about the Bible? First, the Bible doesn't ever say that Nicodemus was more than a silent follower of Jesus until he helped Joseph bury Jesus. He wasn't part of the lists of the twelve disciples Jesus chose and certainly did not write...

However, the phrase "this rock" may also refer to his profession of faith, not directly to Peter, because all true Christian churches profess to believe in the essential beliefs of the Trinity, Jesus' divine and human natures, the inspiration of the Bible, God as Creator of the universe, and...

After many years of study of the Bible and thought about the subject, I've come to the conclusion that the unforgivable sin is a whole lifetime of active or passive, self-centered rebellion against God. At some point (only God knows when), he lets them have their way and passes his just judgment...

I agree. Where does it describe the rapture and the millennium? I don't see it either.

Being a sinner as a true believer doesn't mean that sin and Satan dominate us, it means that we struggle every day against the sin-nature within us and with the presence of the Holy Spirit through Jesus' victory, we find progress, completely to God's credit.

I think it's pretty clever. Thanks for you explanation.

Abraham Kuiper lived in a very different time when religious controversies were public discussions in Holland that people were aware of. Now, in secular cultures, the subject would never come up. So, we should concentrate on our own witnessing and sharing of our beliefs with an emphasis on God's...

Because Jesus loved the whole world, as stated in John 3:16 and because he has a general love for all the people he created as the Father's Agent with the Spirit's infinite power, in that sense he died for the whole world, including the perishing who refuse to acknowledge their Creator. However...

Jesus was using Peter as an illustration of a rock by pointing at his confession of faith, not as a single ruler of the church.

Just because he is listed first doesn't mean that he became the leader of the early church. Where do you find that specific information? You realize, don't you, that right after he confessed Jesus to be the Messiah, he condemned Jesus' plans to go to the cross and that Jesus said that Peter was...

So, you don't think that God inspired Paul to write Ephesians 1:3-14, Broadway, because Paul clearly disagrees with your idea?

When God created Adam and Eve, they instituted rebellion against him, a kind of a coup. We all participated in that rebellion too, because Adam passed it on to us as our head, as Paul has said. God could have sent all humans to hell. But his love for the world, humans, was so great that he calls...

The main audience of the Book of Hebrews is Jewish Christians, not unbelieving Jews.

We are all accountable to God for our rebellion against him. All have witnessed his creative power in his creation around us, including Abraham. You are reading into Scripture, though, what isn't there. For example, you say, "God couldn't indict Abraham for his sins." Paul says in Romans 2 that...