David and Bathsheba and Modern Word Games
David did not rape Bathsheba. It’s important we get that right.
Read MoreDavid did not rape Bathsheba. It’s important we get that right.
Read MoreOstentation is not a Christian virtue, no matter how subtle or trendy it happens to be.
Read MoreJesus said, “If I have told you earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?” in John 3:12.
We would all do well to seriously consider His question.
Read MoreHe cared for the poor and downtrodden. But He cared for them as individuals in need of solutions to their individual problems, not as avatars of whatever identity group they happened to belong to. As humans, we possess the universal need for a savior. All have sinned. But our individual circumstances, lifestyles, and problems are unique. So, Christ stands as both the mediator of all repentant people and the Lord of our individual lives.
We are more than the sum of our modern socio-political categories. No one knows that more than Jesus.
There is a way in which the Bible not only condones slavery, but absolutely requires it. It is not in the way anti-Christian activists would have us believe, neither is it what pops into most of our minds when we hear the word.
But make no mistake: to be a Christian is to be a slave.