For the past three hundred years it has seemed obvious to many modern Westerners that cataclysmic, global floods are impossible, and so the biblical story of the great flood has been seen as a legendary myth highlighting the vindictive judgment of the Bible’s angry...
The false teachers John is defending his church against made much of their own leadership, creating doubt in the minds of her members by causing them to selfishly look for the locus of their relationship with God inside themselves. But John draws them back by making...
God wants us to stop sinning, but how can we even begin this impossible task? John's answer: look to the cross of the crucified Jesus who died to sin for us, look to the new creation where our destiny as full-formed children of God will become a reality, and look...
The question of whether Christians should go to church or not can only be answered by answering the question, are Christians the church or not. Once again, Western-style individualism blocks us from even understanding the nature of the problem. The Bible insists that...
John's church was attacked from within by teachers who taught that Jesus was not actually a physical being and that salvation was not about a restored relationship with God but about secret knowledge of God gained privately by the enlightened initiated. John...
