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For months now I've been making the case that the Greek word "pisteuo" couldn't be correctly translated into the English language. The words the translators chose to use 248 times in the NT are believe, believer, and believing. The definition of the word "believe" is, " an opinion held in...

It is a caricature, no, worse than that, a distortion of scripture, and a twisting of what Paul said to the Corinthians. To have people come to this table, and approach these elements, thinking that you have to be by some performance of your own, worthy to partake. Let every tradition be a lie...

1) God told Moses, to build a tabernacle, that would be His dwelling place. The exact specifications He would show them... 2) Every item in the tabernacle, every element, every measurement, every detail, every piece of equipment was designed by God to speak internal and spiritual truths... 3)...

1) God didn't let Joshua have anything in Jericho , but He let him have all the spoils in AI. Don't put God in a box, Gods ways are not our ways..... 2) God can conquer a city of people with 2, or if you mess with His program, He can send 521, 000 to knock down 3 people. He may drop an atom...

Mark 4:11-13 "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of God. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables, that seeing , they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand. Lest at anytime they should be converted and their sins be...

1) Salvation is synonymous with Lordship in the NT terminology. 2) For us, God added something to the example of the Passover that typifies Christ.. And that is , we are totally His, total and absolute possession. No cheap grace. Paul said, " In that He died for all, that they which live, do...

A saint in the Greek is "Hagios". A saint is a " called out one", committed to the Lord. Saints aren't perfect, they are candidates for perfection. All the responsibility doesn't lay with God. We have to position ourselves properly in Him. ( a continually surrendered life)

God didn't reach down to rescue fallen angels, but He did reach down to rescue fallen man. The blessing, that funnel, which God pours out all His goodness, is to the man who is in constant change. The "uncontaianable blessing" , is the Holy spirit, sealed inside us. What happens?

Ephesians. 1: 3-6 is a spoken separation of one called out from among those who are not called.

Saints don't fall or backslide in one fell swoop. They fall a little at a time. There are sign posts along the way. 1) Neglect of prayer or the continually surrendered life. 2) Substitute action for prayer. 3) follow a far off. 5) Rekindle appetites of the flesh. 6) Open rejection of Jesus.

We're not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. Paul says that our sin and corruption isn't because we have desires... we are corrupt according to deceiving desires. God views the sealed vessels sinful nature in us as already dead. All we have to do is stop the sinful nature...

There is a twin activity going on in the Christian. 1) The dying of " the old self." 2) The building of the " new life." The "price tag", on salvation.... is "Lordship". In the Greek, " The Lord is my shepherd ", means, Absolute, total, complete, nothing held back, " Mastery. "

In the first two chapters of Hebrews, God hurls out declarations about His Son. The literal out raying of Gods glory, The agent that created these worlds, That the "Son of God" , was the agent of creation.

What is a paradox? A paradox embraces two things, mutually contradictory, exclusive of one another, yet concomitant. Existing at the same time, merged together, both true, yet entirely opposite. The deeper truths of God are all paradoxes. The greatest paradox we have to deal with coming out...

"Christ is formed in our hearts by faith." So it's important to know exactly what faith is and how it's applied to have Christ formed in our hearts. There was some trouble translating faith, pistis, into the English language. And also the corresponding verb to pistis, pisteuo. The English...

Ehp. 4 : 11-12, In this passage we are told that there are two types of Christians, gifted ministers who are responsible for perfecting saints, and saints being perfected by those gifted ministers. I" de like to see those gifted ministers announce themselves, and the saints being perfected to...

2 tim. 4: 3 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lasts will they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." Are we there? The sound doctrine is simple, how we respond to the call of the Father . The word in the Greek is pisteuo. It's...

Just wondering if Blain is ok. I haven't seen him in the site since may.

In most other cases, any words added by the translators are in italics. 1) the words believe, believer, and believing are not in the Greek language. In the Greek, you are only faithing towards something pisteuo, or faithing away from something Apisteuo. No neutral of middle ground like just...

2 Timothy 1:8 " Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God." Looking at each word in the Greek. "Therefore, you be not ashamed of the evidence given by the one with all...