I recently wrote about free will in relation to faith using reason only, promising to consider Scripture very soon. So now I offer what I consider a Biblical viewpoint on the matter.
Tag: The Church
Disappearing the Church in Revelation After Chapter 3.
Normally I greatly respect John MacArthur's teachings and his love for the Word of God. He's one of those few men I can look up to in our time. However, I disagree with him on the subjects of election, and as I discuss below, the rapture of the Church.
GOD’S OWN END-GAME
The existence of God, despite the complaints of people like Sir David Attenborough who gave suffering as the reason for his own atheism, doesn't go away by invoking this problem. After all, God may be pernicious and unloving. He may be uncaring. He may be somewhere else and not able to help us yet. He may be using suffering for his own purposes.
Rapture or Not?
Views of the "rapture of the Church" vary enormously, from people not believing that it's a Biblical event at all and who say it will never happen, to the insistance that all true believers will be whisked from the earth any day now, in order to save us all from suffering and from what's to come upon the earth during the "Tribulation".
Having Confidence Despite the Times
I've followed several favorite political commentators over the last few years, none of which, I hasten to add, are in the "mainstream" or "legacy" media. I don't trust any of those any more. They serve a corrupt agenda to take our world into darkness. Who does trust them? Surely only people who are not able or willing to think for themselves, or who love the agenda.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 