I have decided to write about this topic as mis­ap­ply­ing Hosea has been caus­ing harm to many Chris­t­ian men. I will not give an expo­si­tion on the pas­sage, it is quite sim­ple. Read it for yourselves.

Many churches and bible col­leges teach that once a wife cheats and leaves the hus­band the man shall never remarry but wait for his wife to return to him. Even if she mar­ries another man, this poor guy must wait with the hope that she divorces him, or per­haps one day her hus­band dies, and she might return to her right­ful husband.

I am aware of a man who was indoc­tri­nated with this doc­trine, after divorce lived alone all his life and on his deathbed regret­ted it. There are many oth­ers who are in the same posi­tion, so please take note and help them if you meet them. (more…)

Heb. 12:1 There­fore, since we are sur­rounded by so great a cloud of wit­nesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with per­se­ver­ance the race that is set before us

Is there in the ‘heav­enly sta­dium’ — look­ing down on Chris­tians still in the race? Who are they that wit­ness the deeds of Chris­tians? Most often the above verse is inter­preted that either the angels or the departed saints, the ‘Church of God’ watch Chris­tians from heaven. (more…)

Did Jesus declare his deity when he claimed he could quench thirst on the last day of the Feast of Taber­na­cles? We read the following:

Jn. 7:37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and pro­claimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in me, as the scrip­ture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of liv­ing water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glo­ri­fied. (more…)

This will be a con­tro­ver­sial sub­ject, but I think it is vital to deal with it as it has the poten­tial to free up Chris­tians from dan­ger­ous mis­con­cep­tions and practices.

The first pas­sage that may give us impor­tant infor­ma­tion, this time con­cern­ing how the gospels were com­piled is this:

Luke 1:1 Inas­much as many have under­taken to com­pile a nar­ra­tive of the things which have been accom­plished among us, 2 just as they were deliv­ered to us by those who from the begin­ning were eye­wit­nesses and min­is­ters of the word, 3 it seemed good to me also, hav­ing fol­lowed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excel­lent The-oph’ilus, 4 that you may know the truth con­cern­ing the things of which you have been informed. (more…)

I wrote the fol­low­ing sar­cas­tic paraphrase:

Luke 22:14 And when the hour came that they woke up, he sat the table, and the apos­tles with him. 15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to do this cer­e­mony with you before I suf­fer; 16 for I tell you I shall not do it until it is ful­filled in the king­dom of God.” 17 And he poured juice into small cups, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and pass it around; 18 for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink this juice until the king­dom of God comes.” 19 And he took a cracker, and when he had given thanks he snapped it and gave it to them, say­ing, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remem­brance of me.” 20 And like­wise the small cups after break­fast, say­ing, “The juice in these cups which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” (more…)