America has become spoiled. You really have to wonder how long it will be before this whole house of cards called “entitlement” comes crashing down upon us. You remember Genesis? You know, that story about the Garden? Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent. I notice God did not…
David Ben-Ariel seems to get his articles plastered everywhere. At least they give him the proper attribution, but it is kind of strange to be reading something and think “That’s familiar sounding,” then find out it is an article by him. He has an article, apparently the original, on Ezine…
Some ideas sound good on the surface. They can sound reasonable, even logical. However, when you dig into some of them, you start to find all sorts of things that just don’t jive with reality. That is the danger of using human reasoning when it comes to understanding God and…
The Washington times reported on 14 August that “School prayer charges stir protests”, with the subtitle “Educators face jail in Florida”. This is significant because past clashes of religious people and the state were dealt with via civil suits and not criminal proceedings. "I have been defending religious freedom issues…
In Part 1, we established that tithing existed since the time of Abraham. As you may recall, God knew Abraham would teach his children to “keep the way of the LORD” (Ge 18:19), and “Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws” (Ge…
Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason challenged organized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. He proposed that reason should take the place of revelation. More recently, the modern age of scientific inquiry was supposed to unlock all of the questions mankind had struggled with. Logic and reason were supposed to…
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to review some basics. Protestants love to tell you that the Law was done away with, or that it was nailed to the cross or that the Law was replaced by the New Covenant. However, even the clear teachings of…
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ~ Mt 15:14 I realize that even within the Church of God, people are likely to disagree with one another on some points. It may be speculation,…
This is part of the series on tithing. In Part 1, we examined what tithing is and when it was instituted. We further looked at the record to determine that it was instituted before Mt Sinai and is in force for Christians today. In Part 2, we looked at the…
Well, “Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77” reported Reuters via Yahoo! News this morning. Without a doubt, he was the most influential of the clan after the deaths of John and Robert and up until his own death. He had been suffering from brain cancer, diagnosed just a little…