Series: Hard Questions, Holy Answers — Post 39 Why the Church receives illumination today, not new doctrine By this point a thoughtful reader may ask an important question: If Christ still gives ministries to His Church, and if the Holy Spirit still speaks, why should we not expect new revelation through modern apostles or prophets? After all, the…
Series: Why I Trust the KJV — Post 2 There is a reason the Bible never presents itself as a neutral religious artifact. Scripture does not ask to be evaluated before it is believed. It speaks as something already living, already authoritative, already judging the reader. For the word of God is quick, and powerful,…
Why Future-Only Thinking Disarms the Church It sounds spiritual. It even echoes the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). But what happens when the Church prays this as if Christ’s Kingdom hasn’t already come in power? This is not a small issue. It’s…
How Rome elevates Mary beyond scripture, turning her into a quasi-divine figure Yes, Mary is the “mother of Jesus,” and therefore in a limited sense the “Mother of God”—because Jesus is God. But that title, coined later in church history (Theotokos, “God-bearer”), was originally a defense of Christ’s divinity, not a license to elevate Mary….