Jesus said the fol­low­ing in Matthew:

Matthew 22:32 “I am the God of Abra­ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, BUT OF THE LIVING”.

Did he mean that they were alive? To under­stand what he said, we need to con­sider Jew­ish thought. (more…)

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This sub­ject came up on a reli­gious forum, I thought I share the answer with you.

Chris­tians tra­di­tion­ally believe that one becomes saved when hear­ing the gospel about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Many even believe that one needs to pray to Jesus to save him/her. Oth­ers believe that one also needs to be bap­tised by water and/or Spirit.

Hebrews 6 men­tions the fun­da­men­tal teachings:

Hebrews 6:
1 There­fore let us go on toward per­fec­tion, leav­ing behind the basic teach­ing about Christ, and not lay­ing again the foun­da­tion: repen­tance from dead works and faith toward God, 2 instruc­tion about bap­tisms, lay­ing on of hands, res­ur­rec­tion of the dead, and eter­nal judgment.

Some trans­la­tions have “of the Christ”, not “about Christ”, for these were the things Jesus him­self taught.

Check again the fun­da­men­tals and answer the question:

At what point can one be con­sid­ered “saved”?

Let us inves­ti­gate it. (more…)

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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…)

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Let me share my thoughts con­cern­ing expres­sions of divine favour, a con­cept so often ignored by the expos­i­tors of the NT. As an exam­ple let us con­sider the fol­low­ing passage:

Col 1:16 for in him all things were cre­ated, in heaven and on earth, vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble, whether thrones or domin­ions or prin­ci­pal­i­ties or author­i­ties — all things were cre­ated through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (more…)

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There is a grow­ing move­ment world­wide that teaches that Jesus returned in 70 AD. If you wish to check out their argu­ments, search on Google for “preter­ism”. They teach that the tribu­la­tion occurred at 70 AD. While they make a num­ber of valid points in inter­pret­ing rel­e­vant bib­li­cal pas­sages, I can­not agree with them that the King­dom has arrived at 70 AD. (more…)

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