God is love, love never fails. So if Jesus fails to save anyone, is that failure? Infernalists say no, it’s not failure because the unsaved have rejected Jesus so it’s their choice. But Jesus came to seek and save the lost, so how could anyone remain lost and unsaved while saying Jesus succeeded? If anyone… Read More »
I’m reconsidering what the Bible means when it talks about “faith”. I used to think that it meant that you have to believe that God exists, and I do believe that is included, but that’s not really the crux of it. (no pun intended) It seems silly to imagine someone arriving before God, after a… Read More »
The battle is not Jesus vs the Father. Nor is it Jesus vs Jesus. Believing in a permanent, ongoing, inescapable torture chamber created by God from which God is trying to save us pits Him against Himself. It makes no sense. The Bible teaches just as all die in Adam, all will be made alive… Read More »
As I touched on in another post on this blog, biblical sacrificing is not a means to gain God’s approval. You can’t sin and then slit a goat’s throat to get God to settle down about your sin and be pleased with you. God desires your obedience, absolutely, and also God is also not banishing… Read More »
Often, I will pray for something and then an apparent answer to the prayer comes but I notice that that answer was set into motion before I prayed. Many people would see that and think that it’s just a coincidence and they would have had that result even if they had not prayed. As if… Read More »
Legalizing something does not make the thing right. It only means there’s a group of people who identify as “government” who will not harass you and lock you up for doing it. Just because abortion is legal does not mean it is right or acceptable to dismember a baby while it is in its mother… Read More »
A while back, I made a post about how they use evolution as the catch-all explanation for everything: https://benjf.com/2019/01/evolution-the-catch-all-explanation/ It’s frustrating to constantly see amazing design features attributed to random chance. We have so many intricate features in our bodies that all function together for a single purpose, and so many systems that mesh with… Read More »
The scriptural support for the “salvation of all” is vast. Many other posts on this site reference some of that support. This post is more philosophical and addresses the principle of the matter. A contract entered into with coercion is not a binding contract. Both parties must agree willingly and without coercion from the other.… Read More »