Posts by Alex McNeilly (Page 2)

Death is a curse and an enemy. It is not something to be celebrated, and it is not something to be embraced as just a “natural part of life.” In the beginning God created man to live forever in fellowship with Him. And God promised our father Adam, that in the day he disobeyed God, he would surely…

It is important that Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate, but exactly how Jesus suffered is also essential to our faith as Christians. Jesus was crucified. Death by crucifixion is excruciatingly painful. In fact, the word “excruciating” comes directly from the Latin word for cross. Crucifixion was used by the Romans to torture and execute criminals, and ultimately to…

History matters. In the middle of the Apostles’ Creed, we list certain basic historical facts about our Lord Jesus Christ. We list these facts in order to positively identify that Man in whom we believe. And who is that Man? Well, we know that He was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the…

Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the virgin Mary. The life of Jesus—just like the life of every human being—began at conception. But Jesus’ conception—the beginning of His life as a man—was unique. It…

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…

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…

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…

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…