Recently during a discussion of Calvin and Baptism, questions about the relationship of salvation to baptism came up. It occurred to me that some of you may have misunderstood something that I said with regards to salvation and profession of faith.
I made the comment that it is not the profession of faith that saves [...]
a word about salvation
InF Project #3 All We Can Know About God Must Be Revealed
Calvin explains “What We Must Know About God.” He begins with “since the majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it, we must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it…” In short, we can only know so much about God. God is [...]
Instruction in Faith Project #2 TRUE DEVOTION
If we are “hard-wired” for God then what is the nature of true devotion
Ben Franklin is reported to have said to Thomas Paine once in an argument about the nature of humanity, “If man is this way with religion imagine what he would be like without it?”
There is a lot of wisdom in that statement [...]
The “Instruction in Faith” project
Well, here is the first step in a greater faith in God. Recognizing that there is a God means also accepting that God might have some claim upon you as your creator.
Something Happened in the Vineyard
Read Mark 12: 1-12
The parable of the vineyard is the name that has been given to this story Jesus tells. The story is very straightforward and the if you read the passages that come right before you find that Jesus and the Pharasees are arguing about where he gets the authority to teach [...]
The Tower
Last Night at the SH Bible Study we talked very briefly about the Tower of Babel story found in chapter 11 of Genesis. We had a range of opinion, from the obvious humor in the story: God coming down and shaking things up; to the likely “real” meaning behind the story — all of humanity’s [...]
God said “Noah there’s gonna be a floody floody”
The first eleven chapters of Genesis contain a great deal of stories that predated history. In other words they describe events from so long ago that it is difficult for us to “prove” that what they talked about really happened. Among these stories are creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of [...]
Being Christian and Evolution
Can you be Christian and believe in evolution? Absolutely. Can you be Christian and deny that evolution is a real? Absolutely.
To be Christian is to recognize and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord. What most Christians mean by this claim is that Jesus is uniquely the son of God and that belief in Jesus is [...]
