Basic Teachings of the Bible is going to be a series of books that covers the Bible's position on the life questions that Christians ask themselves and others, Is it a Sin to Drink Alcoholic Beverages? Is it Wrong for Christians to Flirt? Are Women Allowed to Teach the Church? Should infants be baptized? Is hell a place of eternal torment? Do We Possess a Soul or Are We a Soul? Is Gambling a Sin? Why Does an All-Loving God Permit Pain, Suffering and Wickedness to Continue? Who Is the Avenging Messenger that Destroys the Wicked Ones? Does God Step in and Solve Our Every Problem, Because We are...

Most Christians know that they are responsible to God; in fact, they know they are a slave to God with obligations. However, all of us have wondered one time or another, what is my purpose in my Christian walk with God? What is the father/husband's, the mother/wife's, the child's role in God's plan? Jesus knew that his main obligation in life was to carry out the will of the Father. Only "the one who does the will of Jesus'] Father" is going to be blessed by the kingdom. (Matt 7:21) We are to help the poor in spirit, those who are of Satan's world, and lack spirituality. We are to free those...

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What is Satan's goal? Satan could care less about those, who already reject Christ. He could care less about those forms of Christianity, who are no on the right path, the ones that Jesus is going to say to, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'" Satan and his tens of millions of demonic angels are concerned with true Christianity, and true Christians. It is their goal, to get every Christian to drift away, to fall away, to turn away, to beg off, to become sluggish, to become hardened to the deceptive power of sin, to tire out, and shrink back to destruction. As the...

We may be advancing in a career that is going to take more and more of our time for Christ. We may be pursuing an education that will lead to a career, which demands that we work 60-80 hours a week, like an attorney. If this life were all that there is, this type of behavior would make sense. However, if there is "a life that is real" (1 Tim 6:19), an eternal life on the other side of Armageddon, what sense does it make to invest 70-90 percent of our time on this side, advancing in a world of wicked humanity, which will eventually be destroyed? As Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters,...

When Jesus was asked questions, he was very proficient in his ability to reference Scripture, as well as use illustrations to reach the hearts of his listeners. (Matt. 12:1-12) The apostle Paul made it an established custom to 'reason with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving' what he taught them. (Acts 17:2-3) The apostle Peter said that we are all always to 'be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in us. (1 Pet 3:15) If we are to be effective, we must be able to do the same. If we are proficient in our use of the Bible, we too will...

Hundreds of millions of Christians around the world are lacking the basic knowledge of the Bible's teachings. Moreover, they are therefore, unable to take advantage of the full happiness of partaking in joint worship with God. They need to have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil, they need to leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and move on to maturity. This magazine has been penned for that very purpose, to help all Christians to increase and expand their understanding of God's Word and to apply it more fully in their lives. Be aware...

James 4:8 English Standard Version (ESV) 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. If we draw close to God in our worship, as well as our commitment to him, he in turn will draw close to us. Many, who shy away from putting the effort into buying out the time to get to know God better, which requires deepening our knowledge of him in personal Bible study, will say that head knowledge will get you nowhere. Well, yes that is true to an extent, but a deeper knowledge of God's power, love, wisdom, and justice,...

The new translation philosophy is called dynamic equivalence, but that designation is very inadequate to cover all that modernizing translations actually do. In fact, equivalence is not usually, what these translations give. Usually they give a substitution or replacement for what the original says. Additionally, dynamic equivalent translators omit material from material in the original and add to it. Dynamic equivalent translators feel no compulsion to reproduce in English the words that the biblical authors wrote. In fact, the prefaces to these translations, as well as surrounding published...