• Divorce & Remarriage: A Biblical Synthesis
• How divine appearances and the angel of YHWH can illuminate the meaning of "the form of God" and shed light on Jesus' prayers
• Will God Forgive Intentional Sin?
• Adam Was Not Present During Eve's Temptation
• Who Is In the Driver's Seat?: Identifying the Conscious, Active Agent in Christ
• John 16:12-15 – The Spirit will speak on behalf of the Son?
  
• Books of the Bible Survey 1: Genesis - Acts (audio)
• Books of the Bible Survey 2: New Testament (audio)
• Introduction to the Psalms (audio)
• Repentance (audio)
• Sin (audio)

• A Study of Satan (outline)
• Who were the Sons of God in Genesis 6?
• The Serpent Seed Doctrine Examined
• Angelology, Q&A

Bibliology (The Written Word)

• A Brief History of the English Bible
• Introduction to Biblical Languages
• The Nature of Inspiration
• How We Get our Bible
• Is the NIV A Perversion?
• Bible Translations: Has the Word of God Been Changed?
• Defending the Inerrancy and Canon of Scripture
• Judas' Extreme Makeover: Examining The Lost Gospel of Judas
• Judas' Demise: Not a Contradiction
• A Short History of the Textus Receptus
• Biblical Inerrancy and the Resurrection
• Was there a Mrs. Jesus?: Thoughts on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
• Mark's Ending: The Long and Short of It
• The Queen James Bible: A new "gay-friendly" translation
• Biblical Inspiration, Editors, and the Book of Proverbs
• The Story of Christianity from Beginning to End: Putting the Pieces Together
• Bibliology, Q&A

Critical Thinking

• Pentecostals and Anti-Intellectualism
• Assertion or Argument?
• Well We All Have Faith, Right?
• I Don't Want to Disagree With You
• The Question of Truth and Apologetics in a Modern/Postmodern World
• An Appeal for Preparation
• You Always Think You are Right
• Defending the Inerrancy and Canon of Scripture
• Is Philosophy Religion Gone Bad?
• Two Kinds of Narrow-Mindedness
• Responding to the Charge of Closed-Mindedness
• How To Be A Good Agnostic
• Skepticism is Not Worthy of Belief
• Faith Has Its Reasons
• A Balanced Perspective on Reason and Faith
• Investigating Faith: Placing Religious Truth Back Into the Arena of Knowledge
• Eternity is Not Forever: An Argument for Theism
• Responding to the Jesus' Words Only View of the New Testament
• Religious Truth Can Be Known
• Scaling the Gulf Between Scientific and Religious Knowledge
• The Marriage Amendment: No Rights Are Being Taken Away
• All Roads Don't Lead to Rome
• Knowledge Requires a Soul, and a Soul Requires God: An Argument for Theism
• When Did God Create the Cosmos?
• Abortion: Genocide in the Womb
• Pro-Life With a Footnote
• Abortion: The One Exception
• Do You Support a Woman's Right to Choose?
• Abortion and Capital Punishment: The Seamless Garment Argument
• The Myth of the Divine Matchmaker
• Arguing Against Homosexuality: A Response to Challenges From A University of California Professor
• Dialogue With A Homosexual
• Homosexuality and the Bible
• The Queen James Bible: A new "gay-friendly" translation
• "I Now Pronounce You Man and Husband?": An Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage
• What is the Definition of the "Definition" of Marriage?
• Marriage by Any Other Name is Still Marriage
• What Single-Parenting Can Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting
• The Marriage Amendment: No Rights Are Being Taken Away
• The Same-Sex Marriage Debate: Who Has the Burden of Proof?
• Why the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Matters
• Space is Not Eternal
• The God-Gene: Is Religious Faith and Experience a Biological Misunderstanding?
• What's the Big Deal About Those Tiny Little Embryos?
• Senate Leader Bill Frist's Pro-Life Confusion
• Charles Krauthammer's Embryonic Nonsense
• You Can't Know Atheism is True Unless God Exists--Updated
• Dialogue With an Atheist
• Theistic Evolution: The Illegitimate Marriage of Theism and Evolution
• Faith is Not a Private Matter
• What Makes Morality Moral?
• Pacificism: Well Intentioned, but Ultimately Immoral
• Capital Punishment and the Christian Worldview
• Truth, Experience, and Meaning
• Prayer Under the Microscope
• Clones Have Souls
• The "Jesus Never Existed" Fable
• The Eulogy of Meaning
• An Apologetic for Apologetics
• Biblical Examples of Apologetics
• God is an Apologist
• Not So Fast: There is No Presumption of Atheism
• The Evidentiary Basis for Affirming the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
• Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?
• Existence and Necessity
• Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism Go Together Like Peas in a Blender
• Is an Unembodied Mind too Abstract a Notion to be the Cause of the Universe?
• Aren't Christians Arrogant?
• Thinking About a Whole 'Lotta Nothing
• The (In)adeqacy of Darwinian Evolution
• You're Only a Christian Because You Were Born in America
• Moral Relativism Undermines the Ability to Condemn Anything
• Was Bodily Resurrection a Later Christian Invention?
• Responding to the “change and diversity” argument against moral objectivism
• The Hiddenness of God Objection to Theism
• What exactly does it mean to be an “atheist”?
• No one is born an atheist
• The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus: A Short Case

 

Ecclesiology (The Church)

• peitho (obey) in Hebrews 13:17
• Ministerial Authority
• The Church and the Sabbath
• A Pastoral Theology from 1 & 2 Timothy & Titus
• You Don’t Need to Call Me Brother … Brother
• Female Deacons?

Eschatology (The Last Things)

• The Post-Tribulation Rapture (www.TheRapture.org)
• The Post-Tribulation Rapture eBook, now in PDF, EPUB, MOBI & MS Reader formats
• An Evaluation of the New "Pre-Wrath" Rapture Theory
• The Order of the Book of Revelation
• The Day of the Lord
• Daniel's Seventy Weeks (Dan. 9:24-27)
• Elijah Will Come Again
• Themes in Revelation
• Post-Death Existence of Man--Intermediate State
• An Overview of Daniel's First Vision (Daniel 7)
• Heaven Is Coming To Earth
• Secret Rapture?
• The Antichrist (Outline)
• The Nature of the New Covenant and its Implications for the Church Today
• The Body is More than a Shell
• The Beast of Revelation 17: Person or Institution?
• Eschatology, Q&A

Hermeneutics (The Science of Interpretation)

• Who Needs Hermeneutics?
• The Goal of Interpretation
• The Hermeneutical Spiral
• The Difference between Event and Text and the Interpreter’s Task
• Differing Levels of Relevance to Differing Audiences
• What is the Relationship of Reason to Revelation?
• Bias, Systematic Theology, and Exegesis
• That's Just Your Interpretation

Miscellaneous Topics

• Who was Melchizedek? - Two Views
• Binding and Loosing
• Time, Eternity and Predestination
• I.N.R.I.: The Inscription on the Cross
• Legalism
• An Evaluation of Astrology
• Who Needs Theology?
• The Biblical Significance of Names
• The (Ab)use of Faith
• Evolution - Science or Religion?
• What Legalism Is and Is Not
• The Cursed Doctrine of "Generational Curses"
• Mutual Submission?
• Einstein and Time: A Critical Evaluation
• Not So Fast: Is This the Fast the Lord Has Chosen?
• The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
• Turn the Other Cheek
• Miracles and the Laws of Nature
• Thoughts on the Lord's Supper
• The Biblical Teaching on Judgmentalism: Setting the Record Straight.htm
• Divorce & Remarriage: A Biblical Synthesis
• Miscellaneous, Q&A

New Testament Studies

• New Testament Survey - Virtual Classroom
• Books of the Bible Survey 2: New Testament (audio)
• The Synoptic Gospels
• Synthetic Chart of Matthew (Acrobat Reader required)
• An Outline of the Gospel of John
• An Examination of the Word pisteuo (believe) in the Gospel of John
• The Theme of "Messiah" in the Gospel of John
• The Complementary Messages of Luke and Acts
• The Bodily Resurrection of Christ Defended
• The Argument of the Book of Romans
• Loving Beyond Differences: An Exposition on Romans 14:1--15:3
• First Corinthians 15--Flesh and Blood Not Inheriting the Kingdom
• The Inferiority of the Law to the New Covenant in Galatians
• The Gospel According to the Galatians
• A Technical Commentary on Ephesians 1:3-14
• An Exposition of Ephesians 1:17-19
• A Technical Commentary on Ephesians 4:7-16
• A Comparison of Ephesians and Colossians
• An Exegesis of Philippians 2:6-11
• A Commentary on the Book of Colossians
• Major Themes of the Book of Titus
• A Commentary on the Book of Jude
• The Order of the Book of Revelation
• Themes in Revelation
• Mark's Ending: The Long and Short of It
• "Test the spirits" and "he who is in the world": Are these verses really about spiritual warfare?
• "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed"
• The Prayer Closet: Did Jesus teach that corporate, vocalized prayer is wrong?
• Gods Ways/Thoughts are Above Our Ways/Thoughts
• The Gospels: Why Did It Take So Long for the Church to Write About Jesus?
• Geographical and Temporal Markers in the Canonical Gospels
• New Testament, Q&A

Old Testament Studies

• Books of the Bible Survey 1: Genesis - Acts (audio)
• The Law: The Misunderstood Covenant
• Subject/Purpose of the Book of Genesis
• Subject/Purpose of the Book of Exodus
• A Survey of Deuteronomy
• A Survey of 2 Samuel
• An Examination of Psalm 2
• An Examination of Psalm 130
• Psalm 11: Confidence in God's Power
• Major Themes of Isaiah 40-48
• An Overview of Daniel's First Vision (Daniel 7)
• Habakkuk: Journey Toward a Theodicy
• The Shekel and a Half Doctrine: Shortchanging Scripture and the People of God
• Did Moses Write Deuteronomy?
• Evidence for post-Mosaic additions to Genesis
• Psalm 110:1 — A Case Study for the NT use of the OT
• Introduction to the Psalms (audio)
• Adam Was Not Present During Eve's Temptation
• Old Testament, Q&A

Pneumatology (The Spirit)

• Tongues Are For Unbelievers
• Tongues are Not Learned or Known Languages
• Pneumatology, Q&A

Soteriology (Salvation)

• Why Jesus is Necessary
• Baptism in Jesus' name
• The Process of Salvation (Outline)
• Justification by Faith
• "Lift up" or "Take Away" in John 15:1-6?
• What Is The Meaning of Christ's Death?
• The Believer's Union With Christ
• Justification and Sanctification: The Theological and Practical relationship Between the Two Doctrines
• Word Biblical Commentary says Matt. 28:19 is probably not original.
• A Collection of Evidence Against the Traditional Wording of Matthew 28:19
• Acts 2:38 and the Purpose of Baptism
• Rebaptism
• Inclusivism is Incompatible with Biblical Teaching
• Is the Singular "Name" of Matthew 28:19 Theologically Significant?
• The Oneness of God and Baptism in Jesus’ Name are not Joined at the Hip
• A Fundamental Challenge to Calvinistic Theology
• Repentance (audio)
• Sin (audio)
• Will God Forgive Intentional Sin?
• Soteriology, Q&A

Theology Proper (The Person of God)

• Christology is Discovered Soteriologically
• Christology
• The Dual Nature of Christ
• We Cannot Avoid "Nature"
• Is a Chalcedonian Christology Coherent?
• The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity
• Understanding the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• Avoiding the Achilles Heels of Trinitarianism, Modalistic Monarchianism, and Nestorianism: The Acknowledgement and Proper Placement of the Distinction Between Father and Son
• "I Will" or "We Will": How Many Wills Does Jesus Have?
• Jesus' Prayers
• A Oneness View of Jesus' Prayers
• Jesus' Prayers: It Doesn't Take Two Persons to Tango
• Was it Possible for Jesus to Sin?
  
• Plural Pronouns Used for God
• Jesus, the Voice, and the Dove
• Ye are Gods
• Love in the Godhead?
• What Did Stephen See?
• In the Beginning was the Word
• Colwell's Rule and John 1:1
• An Exegesis of Philippians 2:6-11
• Why Be a Trinitarian?
• Oneness-Trinity Debate: Areas of Agreement and Disagreement
• Oneness vs. Trinity: A Reason for the Different Theologies
• Trinitarianism: Modified Tritheism
• Eternal Father, Eternal Son?
• The Question of Titles
• How Can God's Fullness "Fit" in Such a Tiny Place as Christ?
• Can God be God if the Incarnation is Permanent?
• Yahweh or Jesus: What is God's Name?
• Is "Jehovah" the Name of God?
• A Break Down of the Name "Jesus Christ" (chart)
• Non-Biblical Vocabulary: Does it Make the Trinity False?
• Where is God?: Exploring the Nature of Omnipresence
• Does God Know When Now Is?: Revisiting God's Relationship to Time
• Reifying Natures = Two Persons
• Did God Leave Jesus on the Cross Prior to Jesus' Death?
• Patripassianism and the Death of God
• The Present Knowledge of Christ
• God is a Person
• Acts 9:3-5 is Not a Prooftext for the Deity of Christ
• How do we know God is good?
• John 14:23 et al: Does Jesus’ Use of Plural Personal Pronouns Prove that Jesus and the Father are Different Persons?
• Echad, Yachid, and the Oneness of God
• Is an Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent God Incoherent?
• Who Is In the Driver's Seat?: Identifying the Conscious, Active Agent in Christ
• John 16:12-15 – The Spirit will speak on behalf of the Son?
• How divine appearances and the angel of YHWH can illuminate the meaning of "the form of God" and shed light on Jesus' prayers
• Theology Proper, Q&A

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