An awful lot of GodWords readers ask me this question: do I have to be baptized to go to Heaven? They ask it in a thousand different ways, but it's still the same question.
Sometimes, the messages I receive are intensely personal. While I try to be sensitive to those involved, I think that many private questions deserve to be published. I would never divulge anyone's identity in a touchy situation, but: if one person asks, chances are good that others struggle over the same issue.
What is the relationship between Christianity and the Law of Moses? This is an area in which many Christians struggle, but they shouldn't.
Do you want to know about the "good news" of Christianity? Forget about what you've heard before, and listen to this.
I go to your church, but you don't know my name. I sit in the back. I slip out early. I'm there every week...almost. I try to follow God, but I'm not perfect. You give me a smile and a handshake, but you don't know my story.
We tend to gorge on the cotton candy of fluffy praise music, reveling in the tasty emotional soup that it creates in us. We often only nibble at the heart of the gospel, thinking that its richness will fill us after only a bite or two.
Anonymous GodWords Reader asked: "Is it a sin for me to be attracted to the same sex even though I never act upon it?" Thanks for asking, anonymous GodWords reader! I'm going to give a short answer, and then a pretty long answer.
It's not the kind of book that everyone will love, but it's my kind of book. What is it? It's a scholarly work written by Mike Licona, the first book of its kind: a defense of Jesus' resurrection from a historical perspective. Licona is an expert in first-century historiography, and that makes this book different.
In this video (1:27:35), Craig Evans and Bart Ehrman debate the reliability of the gospels. These are two very highly-regarded Biblical scholars. Bart Ehrman is a well-known author and Religious Studies professor, while Craig Evans is an author and Biblical Studies professor, as well as an authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
By the side of every opinion and doctrine which agrees with the truth of things, there springs up some falsehood; and it does so, not because it takes its rise naturally from some fundamental principle, or from some cause peculiar to the matter in hand, but...
In Athenagoras, whose very name is a retrospect, we discover a remote result of St. Paul’s speech on Mars Hill. The apostle had cast his bread upon the waters of Ilissus and Cephisus to find it after many days.
This ancient document is generally considered spurious...that is, it was likely not written by Antoninus. The Emperor Caesar Titus AElius Adrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Supreme Pontiff, in the fifteenth year of his tribuneship, Consul for the third time, Father of the fatherland...
