Category Archives: Bible

Water Baptism in Christian History

Posted on 07/15/2010 by Paul Pavao

For those of you that read my blog, but not Christian History for Everyman, I’m just letting you know I made a page on water baptism for that site. It’s pretty comprehensive, even though it only touches on the mode … Continue reading →

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The Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians: Chapter One

Posted on 06/29/2010 by Paul Pavao

I started this series yesterday with an introduction to the early Christian writings. This is Ignatius’ epistle to the Ephesians, written in A.D. 107 or 116, about 50 or 60 years after Paul wrote his epistle to the Ephesians and … Continue reading →

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Can the Gates of Hell Prevail Against the Church

Posted on 06/23/2010 by Paul Pavao

So the idea of Matthew 16:18 is not that the church won’t fall. The idea is that when and where the church exists, she will assail the gates of Hades and bring back the dead.
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Born-Again Bible Reading: A Thought for Discussion

Posted on 05/13/2010 by Paul Pavao

Parsimony destroys the entire fundamentalist system. It rips their most important doctrines to shreds. Continue reading →

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Commenting on the Psalms

Posted on 05/10/2010 by Paul Pavao

I love the Psalms. Sometimes I’m scared to start reading them because I can get so caught up in the message of just one Psalm. It’s amazing the truths that are laying there, just under the surface, for the person … Continue reading →

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Judgment

Posted on 04/17/2010 by Paul Pavao

There are not many of Evangelicals who believe the Bible, even though we say we do, so I get a lot of objections to these verses. Continue reading →

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Balaam and Bible Interpretation

Posted on 03/15/2010 by Paul Pavao

I talked about a symbolic form of interpretation described by Origen, the great 3rd century theologian from Alexandria, Egypt. But what I talked about, Britt Mooney recently put into practice. Continue reading →

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The True Sacrifices of God

Posted on 03/10/2010 by Paul Pavao

So why doesn’t God want another young bull or even a single male goat from the Israelites? There’s actually two reasons … but we modern Christians have adopted one particular error that stops us from noticing one of those reasons. Continue reading →

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Blind Faith and the Age of Reason

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Paul Pavao

I’m not a believer in blind faith. I think blind faith is stupid and dangerous. Continue reading →

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Statistics on Born Again and Churched Christians

Posted on 01/18/2010 by Paul Pavao

This isn’t condemnation. This is pleasing God. This is finding God’s will. And if we call ourselves Christians, then nothing else ought to matter to us. Continue reading →

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