This article (by a guest author) nicely makes the distinction between natural and imposed law. Thank you Kent. It was Thanksgiving Day. Three months had passed since my dad’s death from cancer. We were driving to see my dad’s brother, to spend some quiet time in reflection on the year’s events. Moving along with what […]
The law definition people associate with the gospel is very much dependent on their view of the nature of the law. Traditional Legal Model – God’s laws are the rules He arbitrarily made to govern our behavior which, if transgressed, incur the imposed legal penalty of death (Rom 6:23). Biblical Healing Model – “law” is […]
“Elias [Elijah] was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.” (James 5:17) Elijah was a prominent Old Testament prophet who did great things for God. He confronted the […]
This page about how Abraham was justified is an illustration of the definition of justification provided in the glossary for this site. “Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? […]
Note: this page includes discussion of the word “justified.” Traditional Legal Model – justification is the declaration that a person is right with God in a legal sense – He is then justified, his sins being forgiven and the penalty paid. Essentially, it is a ticket to heaven. Biblical Healing Model – to cure man’s […]
Traditional Legal Model – atonement is understood to be the satisfaction of God’s justice by the payment of a legally-imposed penalty, that penalty being death – “… the wages of sin is death …” (Rom 6:23). Biblical Healing Model – the process of becoming one with God (atonement as a verb) or the state of […]
Traditional Legal Model – to satisfy the wrath of an offended God in the sense of making payment to meet the required penalty and to offset the injustice He feels over sin. Biblical Healing Model – the Bible does not use the word in relation to God. God does not need to be appeased in […]
Many people, when they read of all the wars that ancient Israel, God’s people were involved in, have a very hard time reconciling that with a God of love. The Bible does record many wars and much killing but have we correctly understood God’s role in that history? This study will demonstrate from Scripture […]
Is Genesis 6:13 Permissive or Causative? I was recently asked: “Is ‘I will destroy them’ in Genesis 6:13 written in the permissive or the causative sense in the original Hebrew?” The verse says: “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; […]
God met Moses at the burning bush and gave him the good news about the plan to deliver Israel from Egyptian bondage. It was good news to Moses until Moses learned that he was to be the one to lead them out: “Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest […]