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Paul, Baptism and Mid-Acts
Should we water baptize today and is the mid-Acts position logically right? The answers are No and No. Though a conclusion is affirmed correct this does not mean that the logical process used to attain the result is correct. It is not simply good enough to have a correct conclusion we must have correct argumentation. […]
Read MoreThe Olive Tree – Are We Graft In?
The Olive Tree – are we graft in? This question seems to have an obvious answer. “Of course we are graft into the olive tree because that is what Romans 11:17 says!” Lets read it together: 17 (AV) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert […]
Read MoreThe Lord’s Supper — Should We Partake?
The roots of the Lord’s supper. A concordance of the expression “this is my body” gives the following results: Mt 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. Mr 14:22 And as they did […]
Read MoreThe Head Metaphor and Mid-Acts
κεφαλή Some who defend the mid-Acts position say that “because Christ is the head of the church present in the book of Acts and is also the head of the church that is mentioned by Paul from prison that we cannot assume any fundamental difference between these two companies” — I am quoting because I […]
Read MoreMid Acts or Acts 28
When I began my christian life at the age of 21 in a small Baptist chuch in rural New Zealand I knew little of the bible and even less of its doctrine. I knew that I was saved by grace and that was a huge step from darkness to light, while not a library of […]
Read MoreThe Adjustment
The perfecting of the saints The book of Ephesians is the high water mark of PAul’s prison ministry. It relates to us both the circumstances and content of the revelation of “the mystery” which was hid in God. All saints immediately prior to this revelation believed and held to the hope which was proclaimed to […]
Read MoreThe Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Eph 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; Eph 3:8 (TR) εμοι τω ελαχιστοτερω παντων των αγιων εδοθη η χαρις αυτη εν τοις εθνεσιν ευαγγελισασθαι τον ανεξιχνιαστον πλουτον του χριστου The greek word translated […]
Read MoreThe Gospel of Peace
Eph. 6.15 (AV) And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Eph. 6.15 (TR) και υποδησαμενοι τους ποδας εν ετοιμασια του ευαγγελιου της ειρηνης The passage above is taken from the armor of God section in Ephesians 6:11-18. It would be easy to assume that the gospel of peace only applies to that […]
Read MoreChrist Is All There Is
“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” Colossians 2:16-17 We have just finished the Book of Colossians in our weekly Bible […]
Read MoreEaster 2014
It’s resurrection time again! “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: […]
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