It is important to mention that temptations are not sins, even in such a high-voltage area: “The Catholic Church teaches that homosexuality is not a sin but that homosexual acts are: ‘Homosexual persons are called to chastity,’ one section of the Catechism which addresses homosexuality reads. It also says Scripture calls homosexual acts ‘acts of […]
Author: Lee
The command in Scripture is certainly clear: Lev. 19:11 Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another. So that would include all types of lying, without any exception. Now as far as a quarterback doing a fake handoff, I don’t think pretending (as in acting) is lying. I think “bearing false witness” […]
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Overcoming sin
James puts a paradox together in one verse: James 3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. We all stumble … he is a perfect man. Now James did not get distracted halfway […]
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Masturbation – Is it a sin?
Maybe one place to start would be in the places where the Bible does speak clearly about various sexual behaviors, as for example, in Lev. 15:16-18, 22:4, some indications may be found there. And as C.S. Lewis put it, the main problem with masturbation is that it is trying to take something that was intended […]
Paul makes a statement which does seem to sanction picturing Christ, as is done in movies of the life of Christ: Galatians 3:1 Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. The word “portrayed” has this definition in the USB lexicon: “Write in former times (pf. pass. be written about or marked […]
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Self defense?
2CO 4:8-11 “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive […]
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Age of accountability
Paul does speak of a moment that seems to have a sense that is similar to what is taught in the age of accountability: Romans 7:9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. Yet it seems that Scripture teaches that people at all […]
First we need to know what Scripture should be… We can say that a book is inspired if God guided the authorship, so that it has no errors (it “cannot be broken,” Jn. 10:35), and if it has moral purity (“the word of the Lord is right,” Ps. 18:4), if it teaches us of God […]
The ways Jesus responded to people, showing them what they should do to have eternal life, are quite different! To one, Jesus said “Go, sell all you have, and give to the poor, and follow me.” To another, Jesus said “Come down, I must eat at your house today.” To a third, Jesus said “Go […]
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Did the Holy Spirit live in OT saints?
Apparently there was some firstfruits of the new covenant even in the time of the Mosaic covenant: Hebrews 8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. ISA 51:7 Hear me, […]