Posts from July 2020
The Apostles’ Creed: “…and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord…”
God has a Son. God did not have a son. He has a Son, and He always has had a Son, since before the world began. In fact, it is essential to the identity of the one true God that He has, and always has had, a Son. In the beginning, in Genesis 1, God said, “Let us make man in our image.” The book of…
The Apostles’ Creed: “…Maker of heaven and earth…”
We are surrounded by idols. We are surrounded by things created by man’s hands which we look to in order to find comfort and peace for our soul. Tibetan prayer flags, Eastern Orthodox icons, Romans Catholic crucifixes and statues of Mary, statues of Buddha, the Quran of Islam . . . these are all…
The Apostles’ Creed: “…in God, the Father Almighty…”
God is not a mother. There are several places in Scripture where God is compared to a mother, but never does the Bible teach us that God is a mother. Instead, the universal testimony of Scripture is that God is a Father. And this is not because the Bible was written by woman-hating iron-age…
The Apostles’ Creed: “I believe…”
Did you know that demons believe the Apostles’ Creed? That is to say, demons—Satan and his servants—know that every statement in the Apostles’ Creed is true. In modern usage, that’s really all “believe” has come to mean. We have reduced the phrase “I believe” to simply mean: “These are the facts. I have observed and believe that these things are objectively true.” But the…