tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57022389318338353092024-03-05T20:12:47.791-05:00The Gospel of the Kingdom of GodSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-26183278324476241912018-06-15T22:42:00.000-04:002018-06-15T22:42:09.249-04:00Conscience, Authority, Sexual Immorality, And Judging Inside the Church
My heart is saddened how people seem to think that men having sex with men or women with women or sexual relations with someone else's boyfriend or girlfriend, or someone else's wife or husband, is considered normal and a matter of sexual freedom. Sexual immorality is no longer considered sinful behavior, though at one point in their life there was a deep conviction that it was, and instead, Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-18843804224651566142018-04-09T16:53:00.000-04:002018-04-09T16:53:41.375-04:00Literal Pre-existence of Jesus?
The following is taken from Chapter 6 in my book, “Can We Handle The Truth?”
Literal Pre-existence?
Most churches argue for the literal pre-existence of Jesus. Pre-existence is defined as: “existence in a former state or previous to something else.” However, where it concerns Christ, it is regularly taught that Jesus literally pre-existed as the second Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-66151668404885548692017-08-11T14:56:00.001-04:002017-08-11T14:57:15.827-04:00Can We Handle The Truth?My book now available on Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/154089424X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502457226&sr=8-1&keywords=can+we+handle+the+truthSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-74980674791239388592016-08-17T13:21:00.000-04:002016-08-17T13:21:58.200-04:00But For the Grace of God Go I
Is this saying another way to blame God? One day I was reading the newspaper about a tragic accident that happened on I-95 where a six-year-old child was killed. The driver was the father who had a car load of children on their way to a church function. All came out fine except for the death of the father's child. One of the children said to another, "God was with us," which those around were inSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-3603966516588833092016-07-09T00:23:00.000-04:002016-07-09T00:23:31.416-04:00The Hope of the Saints is Not Going to HeavenThe HOPE of the righteous is RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. It is NOT the hope of “going to heaven,” for nowhere in scripture does it say heaven is our destination when we die no matter how this unbiblical teaching is reinforced in hymns, at funerals, in literature, in the pulpits, and Hollywood movies.
God is going to renew this earth and promised that the righteous are going to "inherit the earthSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-19689430955163453712016-07-08T23:54:00.000-04:002016-07-08T23:54:22.590-04:00John 8:58 and Trinitarian Belief
Trinitarians claim that the Jews picked up stones to try and stone Jesus because he was claiming to be God in John 8. The fact is, they were not stoning him for that reason, but because he claimed to be the Messiah.
The Jews had an awful short memory if they were trying to say Jesus was claiming to be God here in John 8:58, but were not bright enough to bring this up at the trial where they hadSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-8881515233384763562016-04-18T00:15:00.000-04:002016-04-18T00:15:46.600-04:00What is the Gospel?
Many
professing Christians cannot fully tell you
what the Gospel is. It seems the only answer they can give is to
quote 1 Cor. 15:1-4.
"Now
I make known to you brethren, the gospel which I preached to you,
which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you
are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless
you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-41489226990204532372016-04-17T11:59:00.000-04:002016-04-17T11:59:54.059-04:00Jesus Making Himself Equal with God? (John 5:17,18)
Trinitarians
claim Jesus is God and quote:
John
5:17,18 -
"'My Father has been working until now, and I have
been working." Therefore the Jews sought to kill Him, because He
not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father,
making Himself equal with God.'"
It
is unfortunate that Trinitarians would side with the unbelieving
Jewish leaders because they Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-37727143893595139322016-04-17T11:50:00.000-04:002016-04-17T11:50:05.806-04:00Simple Logic, Simple Arithmetic
Trinitarians
like
to take verses such as “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30),
“I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10), to
prove the trinity doctrine. They explain that the Father and Jesus
are one in the same being, of the same substance (whatever that
really means). They say they are united in one body - God became
flesh in the person of Jesus and lived among men. In John Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-10814135794775328762016-04-17T11:44:00.001-04:002016-04-17T11:44:50.819-04:00John 8:58 and Trinitarian Belief
Trinitarians claim that the Jews picked up stones to try and stone Jesus because he was claiming to be God in John 8. The fact is, they were not stoning him for that reason, but because he claimed to be the Messiah.
The
Jews had an awful short memory if they were trying to say Jesus was
claiming to be God here in John 8:58, but were not bright enough to
bring this up at the trial whereSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-31510564035097209772016-03-23T11:20:00.000-04:002016-03-23T11:20:37.756-04:00Jesus Was/Is Fully Human (1 John 4:2)
1 John 4:2
“This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God."
Another translation says:
"How can you recognize God’s spirit? Every spirit who confesses Jesus Messiah as the one coming as a fully human being…” (The One God, the Father, One Man Messiah Translation.)
So what’s the big deal? Everyone has come in Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-14655997726181045302015-12-02T10:30:00.000-05:002015-12-02T10:37:44.527-05:00Jesus Does Not Make Sense if He Claims to be God Himself.
If Jesus is God as Trinitarians and Oneness Pentecostals claim, what Jesus says would not make sense. For instance, in Matt. 5:8 Jesus says,
“Blessed are the pure in heart FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.”
If Jesus is God, then he is intentionally being deceptive if he claims to be God as Trinitarians and Oneness Pentecostals falsely claim he did.
Some of the questions posed below to Trinitarians and Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-86968211843801028062015-11-25T00:07:00.000-05:002015-11-25T00:07:44.305-05:00Jesus is Not the Almighty in Rev. 1:8
A person told me that Rev. 1:8 refers to Jesus as the Almighty. (Trinity and Oneness Pentecostals come to the same conclusion...that Jesus is God.) My response?
In Rev. 1:8, it does not matter what color the words are in, it does not refer to Jesus. Jesus is NEVER referred to as the “Almighty.” No one will find a single place in the entire NT that describes Jesus as the Almighty.
Please read Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-68774293740566245102015-10-07T10:35:00.001-04:002018-04-09T17:11:21.185-04:00Sin is Not in the Blood
There are those who teach that Adam and Eve started out with perfect blood, but something happened to that blood after they sinned. In other words, the blood properties changed and that is understood to be ‘sinful blood’ as opposed to maintaining ‘sinless blood’. This “sinful blood” in turn is given to all Adam’s progeny.
I even read where one teacher said that Adam and Eve had water Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-21846159081332851122015-10-03T11:30:00.000-04:002015-10-03T12:19:19.533-04:00Worshipping Someone Does Not Make Them God
The majority of Christendom think that since Jesus was worshipped, this means he is God. They will also often refer to the passage where Jesus says,
“You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only” (Matt. 4: 10).
Note that Jesus did not say, “I am the LORD your God, worship me only.”
In the Hebrew culture worship is not reserved exclusively for God. Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-29418290143023649292015-09-22T23:22:00.000-04:002015-09-22T23:22:47.795-04:00John 8:58
Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”
Trinitarians like to use this verse to try and prove Jesus was claiming to be the one supreme God Almighty, and this is the very reason why the Jews tried to kill him. The "I am" is "ego eimi" from the Greek translation. Jesus never said, "I am" as in "I am Yahweh." This is nothing more than a theological Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-70055809526232136002015-09-20T23:33:00.001-04:002015-09-21T00:31:57.548-04:00Spiritual Death or Physical death in Romans 5:12
In the past I had a problem when it came to the term "spiritual death," because of the connection with Reformed Theology.
"Spiritual death" simply means a "moral and relational" separation from God” which comes about by sinning, and never has to do with infants. Infants do not come into this world morally and relationally separated from God. The Bible teaches that infants are born morally Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-91749438465766756682015-08-10T01:08:00.000-04:002015-08-10T01:08:12.856-04:00Divine Agency
Was it Jesus who wrestled with Jacob?Was it Jesus who stayed behind with Abraham?Did the Lord speak to Moses face to face?Is an angel of the Lord the pre-incarnate (pre-human) form of Jesus Christ?Because Jesus is our Savior, does this make him God?The good Shepherd is Jesus, does this make him God?
Divine Agency in the Scripturesby David Burge, New Zealand
We are delighted to publish Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-1860753470657152972015-08-03T15:29:00.001-04:002015-08-03T15:30:35.115-04:00Worship God or Worship Jesus?
Someone asked me, "I have always been saying that God said that we should not worship any other god but him yet I have been told that we must worship Jesus too. What is your take on that?"
Worship means to "bow down." Bowing and worshipping demonstrates respect. Many people in the bible were worshipped. There are many examples in the Old and New Testament. Example, Nathan the Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-87722063788359478292015-07-07T14:22:00.000-04:002015-07-07T14:22:29.293-04:00Divorce and Remarriage
By Ramon Carroll
What does the bible really teach about divorce and remarriage? There has been much division, condemnation, and speculation from many concerning this doctrine. What I will attempt to do is give a clear and precise teaching on what the scriptures actually teach concerning the topic of divorce and remarriage. What I will present are the teachings from the scriptures which the Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-18435819377234840312015-05-29T09:45:00.000-04:002018-04-09T17:23:03.961-04:00Jesus Just a Piece of Flesh?
The Oneness doctrine that Oneness Pentecostals hold to is just as awful as the Trinity doctrine. With the Trinity doctrine we have 3 Gods, which consists of three “persons” that supposedly makes up one God. The Oneness Pentecostal doctrine (which is Modalism or Sabellianism) has one God as a single person who has revealed himself in three modes or forms. Both doctrines adopt each other’s Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-25886367850267054212015-05-27T12:16:00.000-04:002018-04-09T17:28:26.101-04:00Jesus the Eternal or Everlasting Father??
Trinitarian advocates
like to use Isa. 9:6 to prove Jesus is God because of the use of Mighty God and
Everlasting Father.
"For to us a
child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Trinitarians are not
really consistent. They will tell you themselves Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-6354013265315502152015-05-15T11:53:00.001-04:002015-05-15T11:53:54.571-04:00God Manifest in the Flesh?
Trinity and Oneness (Modalism) advocates like to use 1 Tim.
3:16 to prove Jesus is God. It reads like this in the KJB,
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
First thing we need to know is, the word “God/theos” was
Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-5185607608252392002015-05-14T12:01:00.000-04:002015-05-14T12:01:54.426-04:00John 1:1 Caveat Lector (Reader Beware)
"In the beginning was the word" does not mean "In the beginning was the Son"
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew [1] he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702238931833835309.post-26973324284790125262015-04-23T08:39:00.002-04:002015-04-23T21:00:07.513-04:00Annihilation versus Eternal Torment: What Does the Bible Really Teach?A very good article by JC Lamont
For more information, please visit my website for: The Truth About Death and Hell
A: Judaism has always held to annihilation for the wicked (kiluy neshama).
#1 – Old Testament
God: The soul that sins, it shall die. If a man is righteous and does what is just and right, he shall surely live. If he has a son who is violent (list of otherSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13700262404599992502noreply@blogger.com0