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Paul Pavao
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Author of books on early Christianity, apostolic faith, and church history. Official site:
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- Righteousness, Self-Control, and Judgment (Acts 24:25)
- A Fair Summary of Paul’s Gospel? Salvation, Perseverance, and Judgment in His Own Words
- Jesus Is Building His Church on Peter’s Confession; Are We?
- King David’s Secret Sauce: Works Are the Prize, Not the Price
- Do You Like the Bible? Or Only an Imaginary One?
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- Past Tense Salvation by Faith and Future Tense Judgment by Works
- The Elementary (First) Teachings of Christ: Hebrews 6:1-2
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- Lordship Salvation? Works?
- Can We Be Good Enough to Go to Heaven?
- Rebooting Redemption: An Ancient Perspective on Jesus' Atonement
- "Faith Apart from Works" and "Not by Faith Alone"
- The Gospel: Comment Response
- Don't Beat Dead Horses; Only the Father Reveals Truth
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Overcomers: What Are We Overcoming and What Are We Living For?
Yesterday I met a boy, Johnny, for the second time. The first time was several years ago. He has been burned over his entire body. The last time I met the sister who plucked him from the fire like a … Continue reading
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Hey, I’m a Cancer Survivor, too.
This blog is meant to be a bit more than my former The Rest of the Old, Old Story blog. I’m condensing all my blogs, except the ones that are mostly automatically created by my web sites, Christian-History.org and Proof-of-Evolution.com, … Continue reading
Welcome to PaulFPavao.wordpress.com
Wow, was I astounded to find that PaulPavao.wordpress.com had been taken. It’s not even being used! I am making an attempt to move here because I have struggled so much with getting a design I like it with wordpress.org software. … Continue reading
Through the Bible in a Year: Leviticus
This week’s through the Bible reading through Leviticus, which we will chew through in a week. Mon: Ch. 1-6 Tues: Ch. 7-11 Wed: Ch. 12-16 Thur: Ch. 17-21 Fri: Ch. 22-27 Exciting goal in front of me this week! Keep … Continue reading
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Through the Bible in a Year: Exodus 29 Through 32
Today’s Bible Reading is Exodus 29-32. Overall year’s plan is here. This Week Is Readers Week! We’ve covered a lot in these first four weeks through the Bible, and I’ve gotten great feedback and input from y’all. Now I need … Continue reading
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Early Christian Meetings
I was asked about early Christian meetings in an email, and I thought that more of you would be interested in what the meetings of the early church were like. Here’s where to find more on the early church meetings. … Continue reading
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A New Look at the Remission of Sins
I can’t take any credit for this idea. I got a text from a brother today saying: I was reading in Acts this morning, and in 2:38 Peter tells them to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins. … Continue reading
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Where I’ve Been
I haven’t had much time to write lately. This is only the 2nd post in about 4 weeks. I’m in the process of moving to California—temporarily—to preach the Gospel and to help a couple families learn to live it despite … Continue reading
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Genesis One: The Waters Above and the Waters Below
I was really having a hard time getting anything out of day 2 of creation. Maybe Answers in Genesis can deal with the science of having water above the firmament which holds the sun, moon, and stars, but I can’t. … Continue reading
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Perfection, the Atonement, and James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10 I am going to write two blogs today. The first will be about what this verse does not mean, and the … Continue reading
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