Did they die in vain?

W.N. Nevins in his book Alien Baptism:

“Under bloody Mary, blood flowed from Baptist veins, and Queen Elizabeth followed the example of her wicked father, and like him, banished Baptists, giving them twenty days to leave the realm. For two hundred years, [after the reformation] according to court records, Baptist were persecuted in England.” “Catholics might persecute Episcopalians, and Episcopalians, when in power, persecuted the Catholics, but both joined in their animosity and persecution of the Baptists.... Did they die in vain? You, who call yourselves Baptist today, will you throw away this priceless heritage that they preserved for you at the price of persecution, martyrdom and death? When you do this, you not only brand them as fanatics, but you surrender the principles that differentiates us, and Baptists become on branch of the Universal Church, with no more authority to administer the ordinance than apostate Rome or her daughter, the Church of England.”

The Value of Memorizing Scripture

I'm Sorry You Were Offended

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HT: challies.com

A Day is a Day

When is a day not a day? When someone is trying to discredit the Word of God. Genesis is clear that the universe was created in 6, 24 hour days. Here is another good quote from John MacArthur from his book Battle for the Beginning.

“But the order of creation itself rules out the possibility that the “days” of Genesis 1 were really long ages. For example, plant life was created on day three (Gen. 1:12), including flowering plants and seed production trees. But birds didn’t appear until the 5th day (Gen 1:21), and earth-bound animal creatures—including insects (creeping things Gen. 1:24) – were not created until the 6th day. As every gardener knows, there is a necessary symbiosis between most flowering plants and the insect kingdom that utterly rules out the existence of one apart from the other. All these different, interdependent life-forms could not have evolved together simultaneously; neither could the flowering plants have been created thousands of years before the insects and birds.”

Wife Beating Rules from the Religion of Peace

Religion of peace huh? Yeah. Prove it to us instead of telling us about it. That should be our reply to "religion of peace" statements from nitwits who are blinded to the true nature of Islam and the Koran. Show us your peace. Prove it to us, don't tell me about it, show it to us in action, in deed, in message, in your followers.

He made a great point about that it comes down to with Jesus or against Him.

The Religion of Evolution

"Consider the dogma of evolution for example. The notion that natural evolutionary processes can account for the origin of all living species have never and never will be established as fact. Nor is it “scientific” in any true sense of the word. Science deals with what can be observed and reproduced by experimentation. The origin of life can be neither observed nor reproduced in any laboratory. By definition, then, true science can give us no knowledge whatsoever about where we came from or how we got here. Belief in evolutionary theory is a matter of sheer faith. And dogmatic belief in any naturalistic theory Is not more “scientific” than any other kind of religious faith.”

John MacArthur Battle for the Beginning.

Frustrating the Grace of God

Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Paul, Barnabas and Titus (a gentile) went up to Jerusalem and preached the same gospel to the Jerusalem church as he had among the Gentiles. Titus, the Greek Christian, was not forced to be circumscised to be among the predominantly Jewish church.

There were some false preachers who had slipped into the church, to spy out the liberty in Christ the believers had, intending to enslave them again into the bondage of the law.

Gal. 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. (in other words: Didn't yield for even an hour for the truths sake)

These men seemed to be influential among the brethren. Paul didn't care who they were, and whatever they were didn't make a bit of difference to Paul because God isn't a respecter of persons and doesn't show partiality, so he didn't care what they thought of him or said. And Peter James and John saw that Paul's gospel and ministry were of God, they gave them the hand of fellowship.

When Peter later on, went to the church at Antioch, he ate with the Gentiles, until these so-called influential Jews showed up, and then Peter separated himself again. Paul saw that Peter was afraid of these Jews, or at least was so concerned about what these influential men thought that Peter bowed to them, and in order to appease the false teachers he fell under their influence. The situation was so bad that even Barnabas followed with these false teachers. Peter went back to the separation and dietary laws, that said the Jews and Gentiles couldn't eat together. Peter fell to these so-called important men, even after God himself had explicitly told Peter in Word, showed Him in both vision and in practice that ...What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. [Acts 10:15].

Paul confronted Peter face to face before everyone and told him he was wrong. ..."I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" Gal 2:14

This brings us to our text. I think that Paul gave this message at Antioch, and is giving it again to the churches in Galatia. They were having the same problems. There were false teachers about who would sneak into churches and try to put men back under the law in order to be saved.

Galatians 2:14-21 is a logical and theological proof that we must be saved by Grace or we won’t be saved at all. The only hope of salvation, forgiveness and pardon to guilty sinners is by faith in Jesus Christ; all other ways will break down and ultimately fail, resulting in eternal punishment for sins.

Frustrate means, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing.; or to abrogate. Christ abrogated the ceremonial law by fulfilling it in full. Christ frustrated the law, I am not going to frustrate the grace of God.

We are justified by faith in Jesus Christ
i. Substitution - took our place on Calvary, paid the penalty
ii. Imputation of sin to Christ -- our sin became His, He paid it
iii. Imputation of righteousness to us – His right. Is ours, we are righteous
iv. Satisfaction – Father’s wrath, law’s penalty satisfied on the cross
v. Justification – as if we had never sinned. Our sin is paid for and we are hidden in Christ, clean, forgiven and righteous.

Psalms 8:3-5 When I consider thy heavens...

Psalms 8:3-5 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.




I saw this second video at the Creation Museum. Awesome.

The Logical Conclusion of Abortion

If you can kill a child in the womb, why not outside it? This is where the culture of death ends when carried out to its logical conclusion.



The host is genuinely shocked, so is the other guest. She goes on explaining as if they didn't understand what she was trying to say. No, we understand what you said, you have no problem killing a baby because it was suffering. You consider human life a bunch of cells (her words, not mine) and that the picture of love is killing something that doesn't experience pleasure.

Then at 0:12 she clarifies, ANY suffering thing. This illustrates that abortion has nothing to do with "choice".