APOLOGY FOR SOCRATES – Johann August Eberhard “Punishment being an evil, cannot be employed by a good being, unless for ends whose goodness is greater than the evils suffered, and which could not be obtained without inflicting them. God punishes not for the common good only, but also for the […]
Truth Versus Lies
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For much of my Christian walk, I was in one of two branches of Christianity; one is called Calvinism the other is called Arminianism. Every traditional Christian is in one of these branches of Christianity even though they may not be theologically trained enough to know which branch they are […]
Truthful or Traditional? By Gary Amirault God wants to save all but can’t. That’s the Arminian side of the “traditional” Church. God can save all but He doesn’t want to. That’s the Calvinist side of the “traditional” Church. God wants to save all, has the power to save all and […]
Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. Robert F. Kennedy Men hate those to whom they have to lie. Victor Hugo (1802-1885) I love quotes. I have collected thousands of them at: https://tentmaker.org/Quotes Some times a word, phrase, picture or thought comes along […]
This came from a vision a fellow traveler passed on to me: A while back, I was in a prayer meeting, just blissing out on God’s presence, when a vision came – there was the Ancient of Days doing the dishes. The sleeves of His robes were rolled up and […]
The Truth About the Truth Perhaps my favorite minister of the Gospel is Richard Wurmbrandt. In one of his best sermons, he brought out a very important truth. Paraphrasing him, he said: “The Bible is a very important book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the […]
By Gary Amirault Imagine yourself in a state of poverty in which you felt your children were better off with strangers than with yourself because you were unable to care for them. What qualifications would you be looking for in the stranger who offered to buy them? How careful would […]
The traditional Church has made the Pro-Choice Pro-Life debate very complicated. Let me explain. When it comes to the issue of abortion, the traditional Church, both Catholic and Evangelical take the stand that God is Pro-Life and against Pro-Choice. Choose life, the church says, let the baby live. And now […]
Free Will B.S. By Gary Amirault In 1940, C.S Lewis, a leading Evangelical voice for many decades wrote in The Problem of Pain: “Finally, it is objected that the ultimate loss of a single soul means the defeat of omnipotence. And so it does. In creating beings with free will, […]
Does Love Win? By Gary Amirault Christians seen to have a hard time comprehending a God that actually really wins. For example, Rob Bell recently wrote a book entitled “Love Wins,” but after 202 pages of question with very few answers, he concludes people can have as much of hell […]