January 2025 | thebereancall.org

January 2025

Jesus was opposed by the religious leaders, whereas the common people heard Him gladly. Likewise, the religious leaders of today also have their complex theological explanations to defend and their positions of preference and power to protect. They are the ones who are blinded by prejudice - simplicity of ideas...Read more
Apples of Gold
In attempting to embrace and deny self at the same time, you end up with contradiction and fallacy. You try valiantly to rescue self-esteem/respect by saying that it must result from recognizing that God created us in His image. On the contrary, we have no more reason to esteem and...Read more
Apples of Gold
In fact, the “spontaneous arising by chance of the first heredity molecule” is not just improbable but impossible. This is one of those ingredients lying in wait in the impassable swamps and impossible cliffs that must be conquered before even reaching the base of Mount Improbable. Evolutionists/atheists are now telling...Read more
TBC Today
Should a Christian participate in a movement to bring God back into the schools? Perhaps it might be wise to ask which "God" will be brought back. Not all of the groups contending for this "common goal" believe in the same God. —TBC "And what concord hath Christ with Belial?...Read more
Apples of Gold
Christians did not give up the Sabbath: we were never under the Mosaic Law. We did not change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. We worship on Sunday, the first day of the new week ( Acts:20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together...Read more
Apples of Gold
Nor can we be impressed with the reasons [Dawkins] has since accumulated in the name of science and offers to us now. Concerning the all-important question of the origin of life, he says, “The major ingredient was heredity, either DNA or (more probably ) something that copies like DNA but...Read more
TBC Today
A critic of the article “How to build a bomb in the public school stem” argued that a biblical foundation was unnecessary for ethics. Jonathan Sarfati’s response explains how Christian foundations underpin the prosperity and science of the West, and contrasts these with the atrocities of atheistic regimes. This needs...Read more
TBC Today
Why would God create anyone knowing that so many would go to hell? Imagine that before anyone was created, the uncreated souls of the 60 percent who would go to hell (I just picked a number) paraded before God's throne in a protest march demanding not to be created because...Read more
Apples of Gold
Most of our readers are at least aware of the problems that result from doctrinal heresy, but few are aware or have thought about relational heresy or even know what it might be. Almost 20 years ago, our friend and associate, Rich Poll from Apologia Report contributed the article, "...Read more
TBC Today

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