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…)

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…)

Let me share a few thoughts on Peter’s vision of a great sheet descend­ing with all kinds of ani­mals in it. Did the vision meant the abro­ga­tion of the food laws as tra­di­tional Chris­t­ian the­olo­gians claim? Or per­haps the pas­sage was meant to com­mu­ni­cate a dif­fer­ent idea. (more…)

How often has the above chap­ter been used as proof text that the law (par­tic­u­larly the food laws) is abro­gated? Does it really teach that keep­ing the laws of God isn’t nec­es­sary? Well, if these laws are abro­gated, then one can be faith­ful, while dis­obey­ing the food laws. But does this pas­sage really teach that these laws are abro­gated? We must con­duct a care­ful inves­ti­ga­tion to find out. (more…)

In Ch. 1 and 2 Paul estab­lishes that the gen­eral con­di­tion of mankind — both Jews and Gen­tiles — is pretty bleak. There is a hor­ri­ble sin prob­lem in both camps (we have seen ear­lier that the lan­guage of the Bible is not all-inclusive). He then concludes:

Rom 3:19 Now we know that what­ever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law [i.e. Jews], so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held account­able to God. 20 For no human being will be jus­ti­fied in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowl­edge of sin. (more…)