Exegesis is to “lead out” the original meaning of a Biblical text. It’s a way of bringing out the original intent of the author by studying not only the background of the writer, the background of the recipient but also the situation or the occasion that gave rise for its writing. The the text is carefully analyzed by considering its […]
Is Science compatible with the Christian faith? I would like to think so. Science is the observation and study of the world we live in, while faith is the belief in the God who created that world. Hence the more we understand our surroundings, the more we should be able to appreciate the God who created it. We can even […]
“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth…. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord.” Acts 7:54-57 (KJV) Emotional and insecure, that’s how the religious leaders handled the case of Stephen before they stoned him to death. […]
Last year appears to be of particular interest to Doomsday Sayers. I can recall three separate End-Time related predictions that were sensationalized: First, ?was the media hype related to the end of the Mayan “Long Count” calendar on December 21, 2012 as the end of the world. They even produced a movie out of it that grossed more than USD […]
“James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. […]
Last September 2011, Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj urged churches to fast and pray for day-to-day individual sins that were not atoned for by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a preparation meant coincide the Jewish Yom Kippur for the church to claim it’s glory in a so-called “Final Dispensation” expected to come by October 2011. To the disappointment […]
Discuss Here. In order to justify the divine calling of their founder Felix Y. Manalo, the Iglesia Ni Cristo (1914) appeals to Revelation 7 as a biblical prophecy about him. In their Pasugo magazine we read, A Church minister says that Manalo?s ?commission? was in accordance with biblical prophecies pertaining to God?s calling a ?messenger from the Far East? (Rev. […]
In 2010, many Filipino Christian leaders proclaimed that it was a year of a “new beginning” for our country, owing it to Ferdinand Magellan’s landing-rediscovery of the Philippine islands in 1521 and Daniel’s prophecy many calls Seventy Sevens (aka weeks or “shabua” in Hebrew, see Daniel 9:24-27). According to the proponents of this belief, “every nation that reaches 490 years […]
More than a month ago, ?Prophet? Sadhu Selvaraj prophesied of a coming new dispensation coinciding with the Jewish Yom Kippur due on October 8, 2011. It’s available at http://www.jesusministries.org/. You can download the transcript of his prophecies here. He asked Christians to pray and fast in order to self atone for their day-to-day sins saying that only the original sin […]
This in relation to Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj?s two-part ?prophetic message? available at www.jesusministries.org – not to be confused with Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929). You can download the transcript of his prophecies here. 1. Where in the Bible does it say that there was a co-population between demons and humans that gave birth to different kind of offsprings? 2. Where in […]
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