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Yeshua, Our Redeemer- Mediator

I Timothy 2:5 :  For  there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man   Christ Jesus. Acts 4:12 :   And there is  salvation  in no one else, for  there is no other  name under heaven given among men [ a ]  by which we must be saved.” Acts 16:31 : And they said,  “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you  and your household.” Of these, I think the ESV is not as accurate as it could be.   It makes it sound as if someone must believe in a set of facts & rely on Yeshua directly, as in intellectually assent to who He is & His person & work at one’s personal Vox Kephale in order to be justified.   The preposition  ἐπί in the text governs the accusative case object “the Lord Jesus,” & is, in my opinion, better translated as “on” rather than “in.” Yeshua is the Redeemer-Mediator of the whole of the LORD’s covenant system.   Rather than point us to a body of doctrinal ...
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What Is The Gospel? Part 2

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.  23  No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. ( 1 John 2:22–23 , ESV) This, according to some fundamentalist Baptists, means that Jewish people worship a different God than Christians.   By way of reply… No, it only proves that Judaism is in error about the nature of God as a triune spirit & also errs relative to the identity of Jesus Christ.      If the assertion that Judaism’s concept of God is in error means that they are not I AM worshippers based upon this particular text, then that means that intellectual belief that God is triune & the correct doctrinal content relative to Christology is an absolute requirement for a person to be justified & regenerate.  What does the Bible teach? Let’s take a look at Romans 9. Romans 9:30–33 (ESV): What shall we say, then?...
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The So-Called Sin Of Empathy

In 2021, James R. White posted on Twitter about his views on empathy &  replied to his detractors  in  manner that reveals who & what he has become over the years.  It serves as a case study into the mind of man who is an expert when it comes to defending the doctrines of grace & who had suffered much at the hands of Roman Catholic apologists & many others, who takes time to read & understand his opponents, who reminds us that we should love Muslims & avoid the trap of equating all of Islam with the spirit of jihadism, while at the same time, his commitment to his American Conservatism has blinded him to his own moral problems that at times make him sound like yet another tantruming member of the Manosphere.  He writes When you start with man as image-bearing creature of God, you can understand why sympathy is good, but empathy is sinful. Do not surrender our mind to the sinful emotional responses of others. There is truth to that stateme...
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