The character of God
Whatever you think you know about God that you can’t find in the person of Jesus you have reason to question. Jesus Christ is the fullest and most precise revelation of the Father and His nature that could ever be made known.
The Truth Project
Explores what Scripture and Christian theology reveal about God's nature, especially love, justice, mercy, wrath, goodness, and faithfulness.
Whatever you think you know about God that you can’t find in the person of Jesus you have reason to question. Jesus Christ is the fullest and most precise revelation of the Father and His nature that could ever be made known.
John 10:10
Video/Audio Viewing Jesus in all Scripture, and viewing Old Testament Scripture in the light of Jesus. 11:33 Old Testament violence When reading the Old Testament, Is this about Jesus, or is this about us? 14:12 Scripture is not the Word...
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.”
Before you open the scrolls you must have a preconceived conviction that God is good and only good. If you come upon a Scripture that is not worthy of representing the nature of God you MUST read it as an allegory and search to discover...
Father is absolutely Christlike. If you read a text about God that does not portray Him in a Christlike fashion and you take it literally you create an idol and commit a monstrous blasphemy.
Romans 5:12; John 1:14; Philippians 2:6; Romans 8:38; John 14:9; Colossians 1:15; Isaiah 53:5; Acts 2:23
I really love this question, because it opens up something way deeper than the version of the gospel a lot of us were taught. The one that feels more like a legal transaction than a story of love.Here’s where I’m at with it now. I don’t...
Isa.4:4; 1Cor.5:5; Rom.7:13-25; Heb.12:10
Love is not simply one aspect of God’s character among others, such as wisdom, justice and power: love is the essence of God’s Being, the fount of all His attributes; the motivating principle behind all His works. Love is, as it were, the...
1Sam.2:6; 2Sam.14:14
He disciplines to improve. No matter how severely He chastens, it is for our good, not harm. Divine chastening, even when it leads to acute suffering and loss, including death, is the pathway to life. For we read that God ‘kills and makes...
God’s sovereignty was viewed as an essential attribute by the early Church, and anyone who dared to deny it was called an atheist. This is one of the most misunderstood and maligned attributes of God. Yet, it is an essential attribute that...
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Theism says God exists. Trinitarian confession says God is communion.Theism posits a single divine subject who acts on the world from outside it. That God is essentially a monad, a center of will and power who creates, governs, and judges...
How ironic that those who believe God will not violate man’s “free” will have no problem believing that He forces men – against their will – to confess and bow to Christ.
How ironic that those who believe God will not violate the “free” will of man have no problem believing that He will violate His own free will – that all men should be saved!
“I can tell you with certainty that the correct view of God’s solution [to the problem of sin], if discovered, would tell you more about the nature and character of God than would most other theological inquiries.”
The matter has been well distilled by Robert K. Johnson, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary: “How can I formulate a biblically informed perspective on hell ‘that is morally consistent with the character of God...
The Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment, of necessity means that... Satan wins and Jesus loses – as 95% of the people He came to save will be lost to Him. His rescue mission was a failure. Jesus looks at the fruit of the travail of His...
1. How can an all powerful, all loving God create billions of people, knowing ahead of time that they’re going to be tormented in fire forever? 2. Is the power of our free will greater to damn ourselves than the free will of God to save...
Thus, to deny the absolute universality of Christ’s redeeming sway, as destined to embrace all souls and all things whatsoever, seems no less than to withdraw from the New Testament an essential and vital part of its teaching. For here we...
What is Mercy? Mercy is often taught, no… drilled into our psyches, that “God is not giving you what you deserve.” Ever hear that? Ugh! It’s very popular in the more punitive view of the gospel. Yet it is another one of those statements we...
“The doctrine of eternal torment is the most absurd theological proposition ever uttered.”— That All Shall Be Saved
Video 28min
Video interview starts at 7:07 7:58 Brad's journey 13:04 The Deconstruction Journey and the book Out of the Embers 19:03 Experiencing Jesus before conversion 25:30 What about when God seems absent? 46:22 Penal Substitutionary Atonement