Use Your Own Brain!

I had  an interesting, spiritual conversation with a Jewish friend of mine today. He believes Judaism. So I asked him how righteous does a Jewish person have to be, in order for him to be considered righteous. He replied, telling me that this was a tricky question. I said, "Well, there must be a dividing line where the righteous are on one side, and the unrighteous are on the other. People cannot be both righteous and unrighteous."

He said, "You can be righteous in some areas and unrighteous in others." But... a little leaven spoils the whole lump! If I put a little poison in a glass of clean water, which water in the cup would you be willing to attempt to drink? If a bunch of roaches had been in your loaf of bread, which piece of the bread would you feel safe breaking off and eating? A little unrighteousness makes a person fall short of God's perfect, holy, righteous standard, against which He will judge us. ...

Culture of Death (abortion)

I had a conversation this morning with three people who profess to be Christians. When the topic of abortion came up, with one voice all 3 of them said it is my body and right to choose. I asked them if what is in the womb is life. Two of them said yes and eventually the third person partially agreed. I then asked them if we have the right to choose to murder a person. 

That stirred a lot of preemptive, combative answers because they perceived that I was moving to say, if you affirm life in the womb then you know it's a person and therefore not a right but a wrong and should be illegal to murder the person. ...

TULIP

TULIP explained in video messages extracted from A Teaching Series by Dr. R.C. Sproul explaining the classic 5 points of Calvinism. What Is Reformed Theology? ...