When we examine each New Testament book and its teaching on salvation, a clear pattern emerges. Paul’s letters uniquely emphasize that salvation comes through faith alone, with faith imputed for obedience. In contrast, the Gospels and the other New Testament writings consistently highlight obedience as a requirement for salvation.
Two Spirits. In Pauline letters, the Holy Spirit is received at the moment of faith in Christ, signifying adoption as God’s children, bestowing spiritual gifts, sealing salvation, and producing the fruit of the Spirit as believers are sanctified to reflect Christ. In contrast, the non-Pauline letters describe the Holy Spirit as granted only to those who obey Christ, requiring to be born of God and God’s seed in them, which renders them incapable of sinning and overcoming the world. Here, the Spirit serves as the sole Teacher, with no mention of gifts or fruits, and holiness, obedience, and self-purification to become Christ-likeness for Salvation. In this post, we will explorer deeper into the two different Spirits found in the Pauline and non-Pauline letters. As always, let’s test every spirit.
The Five Solas emerged during the Protestant Reformation as a summary of key theological differences between Reformers and the Roman Catholic Church. It emphasized salvation by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), based on Scripture alone (sola scriptura), in Christ alone (solus Christus), and for the glory of God alone (soli Deo gloria). These principles became foundational to Protestant theology and identity. In this post, we will explore how three out of Five Solas can be refuted just by using the words of Jesus Christ and identify the two “Solas” which supersedes everything else, that is Jesus Christ and Glory to God alone. Everything else flows from these two solas.
Let’s explore verses often quoted by Calvinists from Words of Jesus Christ and God the Father to justify TULIP, and investigate how they error in every one of them. Please note these posts does not include any counter-verses elsewhere from words of Jesus but just taking the very verses quoted for Calvinism and disproving how they err using the same context in that verse.
When we say Christ died for our sins, many believe it is through Penal Substitutionary Atonement. It teaches that Jesus took the punishment that humans deserve for sin, in their place, so they can be forgiven and reconciled to God. What many don’t realise is that, the law, the prophets and God Himself is against Penal Substitutionary Atonement. In this post, we will explore why Penal Substitutionary Atonement is only for Israel and only Substitutionary Atonement applies for Gentiles or for all mankind in general.
The first version of Simple Bible Reader was released on July 1, 2011, and it has come a long way over nearly 14 years. Back in 2011, conversion from one format to another wasn’t easily available and this software fulfilled that requirement. It is now time for it to retire, as there are several other alternatives available.
Two years ago, we explored the future of Gaza in another post, were Scripture says, Gaza will be utterly spoiled and Israelites will build pastures in Gaza. After today’s announcement by Trump on Gaza’s ‘Level it’ and rebuild, let’s explore more about the God’s plan for Gaza as mentioned in the Scriptures.
Disobedience to God can be disguised as many things. It can be disguised as speaking the truth, sacrifice to God, the word of God and love. Are you disobeying God because of some truth you discovered? Are you disobeying God disguised as offering sacrifice to God? Are you disobeying God because of some prophet or apostle’s claim of speaking the word of God? Are you disobeying God under of disguise of love in word but not in deeds?
God’s grace is entirely up to Him and there is no absolute guarantee to anyone that s/he will receive His grace. Ananias and Sapphira never had the opportunity to even regret or repent of their sins but died instantly for lying to Holy Spirit before the very man, Peter who denied the Son of God not just once but thrice. God’s grace on Peter isn’t same as to Ananias and Sapphira even though the sin of Peter is much greater than Ananias and Sapphira. Based on Scripture we can conclude that ,God gives grace to the humble, He is gracious to the one who lacks and the righteous will find grace in His sight.
Total depravity is a Protestant theological doctrine derived from the concept of original sin. It teaches that, as a consequence of the Fall, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin as a result of their fallen nature and, apart from the efficacious (irresistible) or prevenient (enabling) grace of God, is completely unable to choose by themselves to follow God, refrain from evil, or accept salvation. In this post, we will explore why this doctrine of total depravity is false.
A recent visit to one of my very close relative left me with confusion on their behavior and turned to the Bible for answers. While they insist on spending during our stay at their home who also forbid any financial assistance from us for our own stay, they quickly get grumpy for minuscule things my children do that is worth nothing. To give a comparison, they are happy to spend $200 on some gifts for my children while grumpy for a little water spent on shower or lights left on. In this post, we will explore one of the important characteristics of what the Bible calls eye-evil and how we must avoid.
We had a brief look into Israel and Gaza when things escalated back in 2021. Recently, the conflict got escalated again after Hamas attacked Israel. In this post we will revisit the previous post to look into some of the prophecies and explore the future of Gaza strip based on Scriptures.
sbrcli is an experimental build with an ambition to support Simple Bible Reader on multiplatform including Linux and Mac without much change to the code base which is written in C#.
While James wrote that God doesn’t tempt anyone, He does tests us where He can lead us into temptation. In this post, we will discuss why God leads us into temptation.
While the Bible doesn’t explicitly say about cryptocurrencies, it does give us clear instructions. In this post, we will explore how cryptocurrencies cannot operate without government approvals, mostly used by criminals, a ponzi scheme driven by greed, not backed by anything and no intrinsic value on what was mined. True Christians must not be tempted by this greed but be content with what they have.
