Famed artist Pablo Picasso said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Theologian Howard Hendricks said the way to find your gift is to ask, (1) what do you like to do, (2) what do others say you can do, and (3) what results do you get from doing it. Jesus said, “Give, and it will be given to you” (Luke 6:38). “Freely you have received; freely give” (Matthew... Read more
Some Misapplication of Scripture in Evangelism In the 2,000-year history of Christianity, there have been times of church renewal in which the faithful advocated reform against ritual observance and/or rote liturgy that results in insincere, non-genuine worship of God. The most prominent examples have been Protestantism, with its emphasis on justification by faith and dependence on Sola Scriptura (“Only Scripture”), and the more recent emergence of Evangelicalism. The name of the latter indicates its emphasis on personal evangelism. All of... Read more
About two months ago, President Donald Trump started a military campaign against drug traffickers in international waters, mostly in the Caribbean Sea. Trump has characterized it as “a war against narco-terrorists” transporting illegal drugs that he claims were destined for the U.S. to kill Americans. Never mind that such Americans want the drugs, buy them, and shoot them themselves or whatever with the serum of their own volition as addicts. The U.S. “War on Drugs” Is Not Literal To date,... Read more
I have been blogging about Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIV visiting Iznik (formerly Nicaea), Turkey, this weekend to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of Nicene Council, what the Church calls the First Ecumenical Council. See my other posts here, and here, and here, and here. The Nicene Council and Creed Christian Roman Emperor Constantine called this council in the year 325. It was to become the most important theological council in the post-apostolic history of Christianity. Why? It produced a one-page... Read more
I have been blogging about the Roman Catholic Church’s Pope Leo XIV being in Iznik, Turkey, this weekend celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Council and its Nicene Creed. The Church has regard this council as the First Ecumenical Council, the first of seven, and its one-page document the Nicene Creed as the greatest of all the Catholic Church’s documents were produced. As a preparation for what follows herein, see yesterday’s post entitled: “The Nicene Council Occurred 1,700 Years... Read more
I have been blogging about Roman Catholic Church’s Pope Leo XIV celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Council and its Nicene Creed in the place where it all happened—in Iznik, Turkey (formerly Nicaea) near current today’s Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). (See “Today Is the 1,700th Anniversary of the Nicene Creed,” and “The Irony of Celebrating the Nicene Creed in Islamic Turkey.”) In my 570-page book, The Restitution: Biblical Proof Jesus Is Not God, wherein I cite the writings of over... Read more
Catholic Church Celebrates the Nicene Creed in Turkey Catholic Pope Leo XIV will now travel from the Vatican in Rome to Iznik, Turkey, a very Islamic country, to celebrate this weekend the Catholic Church’s Nicene Council that met there 1,700 years ago (when it was Nicaea), in the year 325 CE. That council of 318 bishops produced the Nicene Creed, under political pressure from Emperor Constantine to do so. Nearly all Christians since, even of the Protestant tradition, have bound... Read more
The foremost theological crisis in the history of Christianity occurred in the year 325. It was about the identity of Jesus of Nazareth, arguably the founder of Christianity, who came to be known by his immediate followers as Jesus Christ, but later by the Catholic Church as both God and man. In four days, Pope Leo XIV will attend a four-day celebration of the Nicene Creed, drafted in 325 A.D. and thus 1,700 year ago. The pope issued a statement... Read more
My friend Dr. Scot McKnight—a New Testament professor with over a 100 books published—has some interesting stats on the subject about voting in his newsletter on Substack today. We Christians usually think that the people in the pews vote pretty much as their pastors do. But Scot shows that is not the case in mainline Protestant churches, such as “United Methodist or Episcopal churches.” Here is the breakdown: Statistics of Voting from Mainline Protestants Scot says, “A majority of mainline... Read more
When former U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned for a second presidential term last year as the Republican nominee, he and most of his MAGA political base demanded that all sources of information about former Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein should be released to the public. It was a major element of Trump’s campaign in order for him to get reelected. Epstein was a New York financier and convicted pedophile who died in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his court... Read more
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