Does Righteousness by Faith annul the Hebrew Scriptures?

What Romans 3:31 means

This I believe . . .

The Salvation I believe in

The most important message given by Jesus focussed on ...

Kingdom Manifesto

Salvation is a promise made by God. Although it is not a question of feeling or of emotion, it is something we can know for sure.

“Much of the First Epistle of John is concerned with the question of how to know we have eternal life. John presents seven important ways to know that salvation is a present reality.” (“Life in the Son”, Robert Shank, page 301).

Shank then discusses (pages 301 – 304) the seven ways presented by John. These pages from Shank are available on the download file.

shank eternal life

In Romans 3 and 4, Paul makes very plain statements on the conditions needed for a person to be considered righteous in God’s sight.

righteousness without law

The misrepresentation of the Trinity by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WTS) and its focus on “Jehovah” God helps the organisation maintain a stranglehold on its followers. It also deters ex-followers from moving to other belief systems.

This study, “The Trinity Exposed!” aims to show what a Trinitarian believes, and their reasons. This should help dispel the WTS’s misinformation.

The WTS portrays “God” in terms of power, superior authority, rulership, and activities. The Trinitarian defines “God” in terms of nature and essence. This is one explanation for the difficulties that followers of the WTS and Trinitarians have when they communicate.

This Study also touches on the WTS, showing its misunderstandings and its misuse of sacred and secular writers.

The focus of future studies into the Trinity should focus more on the actions of the WTS, using that information to demonstrate how the WTS does anything that permits it to manipulate its followers’ minds.

The Trinity Exposed!

The chapter on the “Mystery of the Kingdom” from the book, The Gospel of the Kingdom by G. Eldon Ladd.

These pages deal with the parables on the Kingdom in the 4th chapter of Mark and in the 13th chapter of Matthew.

Kingdom, Ladd, chapter 4

The chapter on “The Kingdom, Israel, and the Church” from the book, The Gospel of the Kingdom by G. Eldon Ladd.

From page 117:
Do we not therefore have the Scriptural precedent to identify the Church with the Kingdom of God? Only in this sense: the redeemed are a kingdom because they shall reign upon the earth. ... The Church is a kingdom because it shares Christ's rule. The Kingdom of God ... is not the realm of God's reign; it is God's reign itself, a reign which is shared with those who surrender themselves to it.

Revelation 1:6 is to be interpreted in light of this verse. The Church is both a priesthood and a kingdom. The redeemed share the prerogative of their Great High Priest of entering into the very Holy of Holies and worshipping God. They are priests. The Church also shares the prerogative of their Lord and King. They are granted the right to rule with Christ. They are a kingdom, a nation of kings.

The Church therefore is not the Kingdom of God; God's Kingdom creates the Church and works in the world through the Church. Men cannot therefore build the Kingdom of God, but they can preach it and proclaim it; they can receive it or reject it. The Kingdom of God which in the Old Testament dispensation was manifested in Israel is now working in the world through the Church.

Kingdom, Ladd, chapter 8

My endeavour to identify chiasms in the parallel chapters of Matthew 23-25, Mark 13 and Luke 21

chiasms at Matt24, Mark13, Luke21

The Lord wrote with his own finger some of the Law he gave to through Moses. What were the words that the Lord wrote?

Written by the finger of God

For the serious student of the Bible, a scholarly presentation on the NT meaning of “Kingdom”

IVP Dictionary on Kingdom

For the serious student, a scholarly presentation on the Bible’s “Eschatology”

IVP Dictionary on Eschatology