Category Archives: Bible

Christian Parenting: How to Keep Your Children from Jumping Ship

Posted on 10/17/2009 by Paul Pavao

We all want to know about Christian parenting. We would all like to know how to keep our children from jumping ship and going to the world. Today, I heard a speech by Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, … Continue reading →

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The Historic Christian Faith? – Norman Geisler, Luther’s 95 Theses, and the Bible

Posted on 09/18/2009 by Paul Pavao

Error, lies, and foolishness are always excellent motivators for me to blog. The particular embarrassing morass of propaganda to which I am referring is John Ankerberg’s interview with Norman Geisler. The interview is such a collection of Protestant fantasy that … Continue reading →

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Scripture: The Foundation of Truth?

Posted on 09/17/2009 by Paul Pavao

 I saw a blog recently, pretty good other than the ridiculous amount of advertising at the top, and I wrote the following response to it. I thought it was pertinent and ought to be on my blog. Scripture and the … Continue reading →

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Predestination, Calvinism, and Bible Interpretation: Part Three

Posted on 06/08/2009 by Paul Pavao

We have been looking at Calvinism’s TULIP a little bit. I considered going point by point through TULIP–and I still want to do that–but there’s something more important than that. Does the Scripture ever really bring up Calvinism? Are the … Continue reading →

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Romans and Calvinism: an Excursion

Posted on 06/01/2009 by Paul Pavao

I’m doing a series on Calvinism and Predestination here on this blog, but I want to make a quick side trip. I mentioned in the last post that Romans has a series of arguments concerning Jews and Gentiles and the … Continue reading →

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Calvinism, Predestination, and Bible Interpretation; Part Two

Posted on 06/01/2009 by Paul Pavao

Well, since Britt–a dear friend of ours and a good, godly man–has put it on my mind with his comment, let me make part two to cover Romans 9-11. I need to keep this short enough for a blog, which … Continue reading →

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Calvinism, Predestination, and Proper Bible Interpretation

Posted on 05/31/2009 by Paul Pavao

Someone once told me that if I wanted to know if a teaching was true, look at what it asks you to do. If it asks you to do something that Scripture also commands, you can probably trust the teaching. … Continue reading →

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Apostolic Succession: Tradition, Apologetics, and Contending for the Truth

Posted on 05/21/2009 by Paul Pavao

Due to working on Christian History for Everyman, I’ve been slow in posting here. I’m working on a page on apostolic succession, however, and it is perfect for a blog entry. The line (uh, here I am quoting myself again) … Continue reading →

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Scoffing Scholars

Posted on 05/09/2009 by Paul Pavao

Don’t you hate it when someone announces that “all the scholars know” that Christianity isn’t true; they’re just scared to tell us? I hate it, and it’s baloney. A guy named Bart Ehrman has written a book called Jesus, Interrupted, … Continue reading →

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Honest Bible Interpretation: Assumptions, Humility, and Reality

Posted on 04/27/2009 by Paul Pavao

It seems that there’s always some incident making me want to talk about honest Bible interpretation. Today it was a phone call  made to a call-in talk show. The hosts, conservatives like most talk radio hosts, had repeated a rumor … Continue reading →

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