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Acts of God — Not! #6:
A Semi-Scholarly Analysis of the Book of Job

By | 22 Dec 2010
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In the last several posts, I’ve been making the case that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing calamities and disasters nowadays. In Part 2 of this series, I listed 4 factors not generally understood about the Bible which causes many to misunderstand this issue. In this installment,… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #5:
The Promises of God

By | 16 Dec 2010
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In the last 5 posts, I’ve been making the case the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters nowadays. This post, we’ll continue exploring the promises of God. In my last post, we discussed how God has sovereignly limited His own sovereignty by telling us in His… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #4:
The Sovereignty of God’s Word

By | 3 Dec 2010
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In the last 4 posts, I’ve been making the case that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters. In the second article of this series, I listed 4 factors not generally understood about the Bible which causes many to misunderstand the issue. This post we’ll tackle… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #3:
Spiritual Authority

By | 3 Nov 2010
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Lately I’ve been talking about how God doesn’t kill or visit sickness and disasters upon His children. We’ve discussed blood covenants in the last 2 posts. Now let’s move on to the subject of spiritual authority. The first aspect we’ll address is the sovereignty of God. God is indeed Ruler of the Universe. He has invested 100% of… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #2:
Covenant Breakers

By | 17 Oct 2010
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In my last post, we discussed the concept of blood covenant and the positive aspects of it. In this one we’ll touch on the negative ones. The downside of a covenant is the penalty of breaking one is death. A covenant breaker is mentioned throughout Scripture as a person who is the lowest of the low, one who… Read More »

Acts of God — Not! #1:
Blood Covenants

By | 13 Oct 2010
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Abraham and Isaac on Mt Moriah

In my last post, I began making the case that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters. Many people would contest this claim, asking, “Well, what about the Old Testament?” Whole books have been written about this; I’m not going to delve into the subject in… Read More »