Charleslehner

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  1 John 4:10-11        For every belief you hold (especially Continue Reading

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battles according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying all arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and Continue Reading

In short, no. Evil is not a created thing. To help explain this concept more, it’ll help if we first try to better understand who and what exactly God is. And what people mean when you hear them say “God is good.” Goodness, justice, and love. Let’s start there. These Continue Reading

“I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person. Whoever sheds human blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made Continue Reading

There are 3 ways of knowing something, rationalism (you can think about it and know it exists, such as consciousness and truth) empiricism (you know something exists because you have experienced it with your 5 senses) and we also have a revelation. We know what we know because God has Continue Reading

      Recently I have been doing my best to try to contextualize why it is exactly that I have been so adamant in my pursuit of biblical studies, theology, and apologetics. Of course a pretty cut and dry answer would be to say ‘so that I may introduce Continue Reading

      They intended to bury Him with criminals, but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, because He committed no violent deeds, nor has He spoken deceitfully. Though the Lord desired to crush Him, and make Him ill, once restitution is made, He will see descendents and Continue Reading

      While (evangelizing) introducing someone to the Gospel message,  it can be challenging to properly illustrate why it is that Jesus ‘had’ to ‘suffer’ for our sins. And when you are hearing it for the first couple of times, it for sure is a difficult concept to grasp. Continue Reading

“Every scripture is breathed out by God and useful  for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2Timothy 3:16)       Textual Criticism is the scientific process by which scripture is tested and analyzed to see if it may have been corrupted since the closing of Continue Reading

Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?       Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it, because small is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to Continue Reading