God is Merciful and Forgiving. God is also Omniscient; he knows everything. How can God forgive someone for a sin when, in his infinite knowledge, he already knows they will sin again? Our perspective of forgiveness is a bit two-dimensional, and we think of it in very linear...
'The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.' Revelation 20:14b-15. If the Lake of Fire, and final judgement in the book of Revelation is the second death, then...
How to describe sin? That is a tricky thing to do. The first place that sin is mentioned in the Bible is Genesis 4:7. The Lord spoke to Cain, saying, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over...
In the second Back to the Future movie by Steven Spielberg, set in 1985, the protagonist (Marty) travels into the future to the year 2015. It's interesting to see how people in 1985 envisaged the future in 2015 - just 30 years ahead of them. They...
A few years ago while working on the house, one of my young children approached me and asked, 'Who made God?' When you have a six year old asking questions like that, its a sign of intelligence. He wasn't asking because he was trying to prove the...
A plane has a flight path which is set. It also has a runway, a determined place to land. Are our lives like that? Is there a path determined for us to fly along, and a place determined for us to land at? Here is what...
Do Muslims, Jews and Christians have the same God? Each of the three belief systems trace their history back to Abraham, who despite all odds, surrounded by pagan idolatry came to find the one true God, the Lord. From Abraham came Isaac, then Jacob, then the...
Does the story of the Wise Men in the Matthew's gospel, validate the idea that astrology is ok? It seems for some people they think it does, but reading the Bible story a bit closer helps us see it otherwise. The ‘Magi’ of Matthew 2:1 were wise...
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
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...
