In order to justify the divine calling of their founder Felix Y. Manalo, the Iglesia Ni Cristo (1914) appeals to Revelation 7 as a biblical prophecy about him. In their Pasugo magazine we read, A Church minister says that Manalo’s “commission” was in accordance with biblical prophecies pertaining to God’s calling a “messenger from the Far East” (Rev. 7:2-3), who […]
In 2010, many Filipino Christian leaders proclaimed that it was a year of a “new beginning” for our country, owing it to Ferdinand Magellan’s landing-rediscovery of the Philippine islands in 1521 and Daniel’s prophecy many calls Seventy Sevens (aka weeks or “shabua” in Hebrew, see Daniel 9:24-27). According to the proponents of this belief, “every nation that reaches 490 years […]
More than a month ago, ?Prophet? Sadhu Selvaraj prophesied of a coming new dispensation coinciding with the Jewish Yom Kippur due on October 8, 2011. It’s available at http://www.jesusministries.org/. You can download the transcript of his prophecies here. He asked Christians to pray and fast in order to self atone for their day-to-day sins saying that only the original sin […]
This in relation to Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj?s two-part ?prophetic message? available at www.jesusministries.org – not to be confused with Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929). You can download the transcript of his prophecies here. 1. Where in the Bible does it say that there was a co-population between demons and humans that gave birth to different kind of offsprings? 2. Where in […]
This is what I personally believe, you may call them my Top Ten Personal Soteriological Convictions. 1. God has exhaustive definite knowledge of past, present, and future. This knowledge includes exhaustive knowledge of all possibilities. This is what I believe as part of omniscience of God. 2. God according to the Scriptures has chosen those who will be saved long […]
According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, synergism is “The doctrine or theory… that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.” In contrast, monergism is the belief that the regeneration of man is solely by God and is summed up in Ephesians 2:4-5 which tells […]
Last time I shared the Top Ten Reasons Why Reformed Christians (Cessationists) Reject the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Today. This time let me share with you why I think Pentecostalism rejects Cessationism. All Scriptures, unless otherwise stated, are from the New International Version (NIV). 1. The conclusion that God is no longer doing signs and wonders originated by the […]
Understanding the work of the Holy Spirit divides the Evangelicals into two camps namely the Cessationists and the Continualists. Most Cessationists are from the Reformed circle of Christianity, while all continualists are Pentecostal evangelicals. Here are in my opinion the top ten reasons why the former rejects the latter. 1. They believe as per 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 that revelatory gifts […]
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did […]
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written. The just shall live by faith. Romans 1:16-17
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