02 Oct Why Forgive 490 Times?
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
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30 Sep Does God Force People to Hell
God gets accused of many things. One of them is the idea that he forces people to either do what he wants, OR he sends them to Hell as punishment for not obeying. It's not a fair accusation, and comes when people don't understand what is...
24 Sep Qualifications to Be the Messiah
Last week a commenter on our YouTube channel suggested we were wrong about Jesus being the Jewish Messiah, because whoever the Messiah was, they needed to do these six things. He said that Jesus failed because the only thing he did was the first. Be...
22 Sep Why Jesus Went Wild
Doesn't Jesus' behaviour with the whip in the temple seem a bit out of character? Why would someone so caring, known for healing and forgiving, suddenly go kind of psycho? Well, sometimes a little more information changes everything. Here is some background information to do just...
18 Sep When There Is No Gospel
Sometimes when you are talking about Jesus, people raise an objection to God's perceived fairness. 'What about all those people in the Congo jungle who never heard the gospel? Surely God isn't going to send them to Hell for not believing when they never had the...
17 Sep Do Christians Keep Sabbath?
Like many things in the Old Testament, they were a physical thing setup by God to help us get at (ie understand) a more complicated concept, which without the initial setup we would not have grasped. Indeed, even with the physical example to use as...
16 Sep Why the New Testament?
If God was the author of the Old Testament, and everything there is true and good, why did he send Jesus to change things and institute a new covenant, and with it the New Testament? It's a great question because it seems to suggest that God...
12 Sep Should You Re-read the Bible?
Most people don't read books more than once. Once you have read a book, say for example Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, you now know the story. You know the ending, the suspense is no longer there, the plot is unveiled and the literary features...
11 Sep The Greatest Beside Jesus
It is an interesting exercise to consider all the people in history who have lived and try to rank them in terms of greatness. Christians, and indeed many others instantly put Jesus at number one. That makes sense given how much the world has changed...
10 Sep Why We Change But God Doesn’t
The Bible tell us that 'Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.' Hebrews 13:8. And later in the Old Testament we have God saying, 'I am the Lord, I do not change.' Malachi 3:6 One of the attributes of God in theology is his unumutable nature,...