The Bible and Israel (4)
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The purpose of these blog posts is to identify the true, chosen people of God—are the people of God the modern nation of Israel, or is it the church? We have seen already that believers in Christ, and therefore not unbelieving ethnic Jews, are the true children of Abraham. Next we turn to the epistle to the Galatians. In Galatians 3, having proved that Abraham was justified through faith in exactly the same way as believers in all ages, Paul declares,...
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Having identified the significance of the nation of Israel and having explained the meaning of Jew in the Bible, we move on to another important question—who are the children of Abraham? Abraham is the father of the faithful, that is, the spiritual father of those who believe. Obviously, the Jews, as they call themselves, claim Abraham as their father: they boast physical and religious descent from him. This was so in the days of John the Baptist and of Jesus Christ,...
Read MoreThe Bible and Israel (2)
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In our first blog post, we demonstrated the status of Israel as a nation is not a political but a theological and exegetical matter. Whatever your political views concerning the Middle Eastern “peace process,” the Bible clearly defines who or what Israel is. We also demonstrated that, while many Christians, mostly of premillennial dispensational persuasion, view the “land promise” to Abraham as yet to be fulfilled, Abraham himself understood it very differently, although he never possessed the land, “no, not so...
Read MoreThe Bible and Israel (1)
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The belief that Israel is a nation before God forever is one held almost fanatically by many professing Christians, especially Christians of a premillennial dispensational persuasion. In fact, to deny that the modern “State of Israel” (as she is called) located in the Middle East is the people of God is heresy in some circles. Reformed Christianity teaches unashamedly that the church (made up of Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus Christ) is God’s chosen people. In some circles, that...
Read MoreMP3 of Radio Interview with Rev. Martyn McGeown
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If you did not have an opportunity to listen in on Friday to Rev. McGeown's interview on Iron Sharpens Iron, you can do so now by clicking the link below. Last week Friday, on January 5, Rev. Martyn McGeown had a radio interview with Chris Arnzen, the national, religious radio host of Iron Sharpens Iron, on his book, Called to Watch for Christ's Return. Click on the icon to listen.
Read MoreTODAY! Radio Interview on 'Called to Watch for Christ's Return' with Rev. Martyn McGeown
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TODAY from 4:00-6:00pm EST, Rev. Martyn McGeown will be interviewed by Chris Arnzen on his radio program Iron Sharpens Iron. The subject will be his recent book, Called to Watch for Christ's Return. Visit www.ironsharpensironradio.com and click on the livestream box to tune in and listen from any device. The program can also be listened to by phone at (563)999-9206; press #3 for Christian Radio when prompted. Listen for a discount code to be given on air to use when ordering the book (only for a limited time)! Be...
Read MoreChrist is coming again!
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"Called to Watch for Christ's Return is a stirring call to stay vigilant in these last and evil days...any reader's heart will thrill in reading [the] last chapter, which explains, in part, the glories of the new heavens and the new earth."—Rev. Ryan Barnhill
Read MoreRadio Interview on 'Called to Watch for Christ's Return' with Rev. Martyn McGeown
By : Reformed Free Publishing Association
This coming Friday, January 5, Rev. Martyn McGeown will be interviewed by Chris Arnzen on his radio program Iron Sharpens Iron from 4:00-6:00 pm EST. The subject will be his recent book, Called to Watch for Christ's Return. Visit www.ironsharpensironradio.com and click on the livestream box to tune in and listen from any device. The program can also be listened to by phone at (563)999-9206; press #3 for Christian Radio when prompted. Listen for a discount code to be given on air to use when ordering the book...
Read MoreIslam (17)
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In the last blog post on this subject, we studied the Bible’s teaching on Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael, and we took note of the significance of the sacrifice of Isaac for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thousands of years after the book of Genesis was written, Mohammed wrote the Qur’an (c. 609-632 AD), which makes very different claims about Abraham, Isaac, and (especially) Ishmael. Ishmael the Prophet First, in Islam, Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael are revered prophets: Say ye: “We believe...
Read MoreIslam (16)
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It has been several months since I addressed Islam on the blog (blog post Islam 15 dated May 25), so it is time to pick up the subject again. In this blog post, I intend to address the differences between Christianity and Islam with respect to Abraham, Isaac, and especially Ishmael. I will divide the material into two blog posts: first, I will explain the Bible’s teaching; and, in the next blog post (DV), I will contrast this with the teaching...
Read MoreAnswering an Atheist: A Theology of Suffering
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Good evening [...] Christianity has a specific theology of suffering, which is absent in atheism, for in atheism suffering is basically meaningless. In fact, in atheism everything is meaningless: people might try to find meaning, but there is no real, objective meaning to anything, if, as atheism teaches, all events are random. Our lives were not planned if there is no God who planned them. Our lives are simply the result of the random collision of molecules. That is what I mean by meaningless. If...
Read MoreTheresa May’s UK Election Disaster (2017)
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The RFPA have asked me to explain the implications of the recent election result in the UK. Since many of the readers of this blog reside outside of the UK, I should begin with some basic facts about the political system. The UK, which consists of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, but not the Republic of Ireland, is a parliamentary democracy, as well as a constitutional monarchy, with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. The various...
Read MoreIslam (15)
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In our last blog post on April 21 (blog post: Islam 14), we compared the soteriology of Islam with Christianity, that is, we looked at Islam’s doctrine of salvation. Like all religions, Islam offers its adherents salvation from this world of sin and misery. Some religions offer a “better place,” while others offer a higher form of consciousness. Buddhism, for example, offers the idea of nirvana, which is release from the endless cycles of reincarnation through which believers must pass on...
Read MoreIslam (14)
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So far in our study of Islam, we have focused on theology (who God is—and especially the doctrine of the Trinity) and Christology (who Christ—and especially the Person of Jesus as the Son of God, His relationship to the Father, His incarnation, sufferings, death, and resurrection from the dead). In our last blog post on February 23 (Islam 13), we considered the essential gospel truth of the resurrection of Jesus. However, it is not enough that a Muslim (or anyone else...
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