Why Living by Christ Does Not Mean Abandoning God’s Righteous Standard Introduction — When Words Trigger Concern Recently, a reader responded to an article of mine with a concern that is worth addressing carefully. He had spent decades in a movement shaped by the teachings of Witness Lee, and when he read the phrase “beyond…
Few passages are quoted more often in the discussion of predestination than Romans 8:29–30. Many readers are told this text proves that God predetermined who would believe and who would not — that our very act of faith was settled in advance. But that assumption quietly asks a question the passage itself is not answering….
Why Spiritual Resurrection Doesn’t Cancel the Bodily One Introduction Full preterists often argue that because believers are “raised with Christ” in a spiritual sense (Rom. 6, Col. 2:12, Eph. 2:6), there is no future bodily resurrection. They say all such language refers to exile, covenant transfer, or spiritual rebirth. But this distorts the gospel and…