Purify Your Bride

As a protestant I was always a little embarrassed by the fundamentalists who insisted that there could be absolutely no truth in evolution. Creation must have happened in 6 24-hour days. Now they didn’t want to come right out and tell you that religion and science were in conflict so they always had a few […]

I just read a piece describing the differences between Luther and Calvin on Sola Fide. Dr Cary makes a very good argument why basing you assurance of salvation of the external sacramental declaration of God’s grace to you is much better pastorally than basing it on an internal profession of faith. I don’t want to […]

How did the early church fathers end up thinking along the lines they did about Mary? That is to venerate her as sinless and a perpetual virgin. As a protestant I could not imagine how good Christians could ever go there. One line of thought they might have followed is to ask themselves about the […]

Looking at the passion one wonders why the death of Jesus was so slow and so painful. You can buy the logic from scripture that Jesus had to die. The wages of sin is death and all that. Still why could it not have been quicker and easier? I see the same thing in some of […]

I had an email debate with a protestant named Will Shurtlif back in 2005. We ended up writing quite a bit about Korah’s rebellion. It is mentioned in the book of Jude as part of a list. As Wil said “Jude lists Cain (murder), Balaam (idolatry and licentiousness) and Korah (rebellion)”. He compares it to some of […]