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What was happening before God spoke the universe into existence?

December 29, 2015 by untilfulllight

The Bible Gateway website recently added Warren Wiersbe’s BE Bible Study Series commentary series to its free commentaries. I’ve always appreciated his easy to understand and apply commentaries and was very excited to see this available online.

As I started reading his commentary on Genesis, he begins it in such an interesting way, I just had to share part of it with you.

One important thing to remember as you read this is that God did not create the world ,was then surprised at man’s sin, and scrambled to come up with a solution. The solution was decided before creation.

Though that is a difficult concept to wrap our minds around, it should give us confidence in the sovereign eternal control of our loving God. There is no problem in life or eternity with God does not have a solution for. Our challenge is to trust him in time.

Following is the excerpt, go to for the rest of the commentary: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=NIVContinue Reading

Trinity #3–How the Persons of the Trinity relate to one another, a brief history of Modalism and other false views

May 20, 2012 by untilfulllight

The Baptism of Jesus is one of the clearest Biblical pictures of the Trinity: Jesus was baptized, God the Father spoke and the Holy Spirit descended. All three Persons present and interacting; all One God.

From our Bible-based study of the Trinity, we have established so far that all three members of the Trinity are God and all three are Persons. Having said that, how do these persons exist? This was one of the early and most important challenges for the early church to figure out because, in part because the church came from both strict Jews who believed in ONE God and pagans who believed in many gods. How were they to understand Jesus?

For the first almost 500 years the church worked to clarify this truth. They did this in large measure through various church councils and the resulting creeds that came from them. This week we will look briefly at church history to understand their thought processes and ultimate decisions.

In the church today we stand on the foundation of careful study of wise Biblical scholars of the past and I hope this brief view of them will inspire you to study the church councils in more detail.

Study the Trinty #3 notes

Trinity #2–One God, three distinct persons in relationship to each other

May 20, 2012 by untilfulllight

Last week we started our study of the Trinity and we could see from the Bible passages that God the Father is God, God the Son is God, and God the Holy Spirit is God. All of them in the Bible are described with the attributes of God. This week the lesson looks at what it means that each one is a Person. We also briefly look at the false Mormon interpretation of the Holy Spirit (who they describe as different from the Holy Ghost).

Click on the large image below to see the PowerPoint slides full size and click on the other image to download notes.

Trinity #1-Foundational to the Christian Faith and a key distinction from the Mormon Church

May 20, 2012 by untilfulllight

In a recent television interview, Pastor Rick Warren was asked his opinion about the Mormon Church and he graciously replied that he had a problem with their view of the Trinity, that it was not the Biblical view. I appreciated that because it cut to the core of the difference between the Mormon Church and the Biblical Christian Church–what God do we believe in?

In this and the next several lessons we will look at this in detail as we study the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. God does not reveal things to us in the Bible to confuse us–He wants us to understand the Trinity. It is the foundational teaching about our God and where Biblical Christians different fundamentally with other religions and cults.

In this lesson we start by a review of “Progressive Revelation” how God reveals many truths to us progressively through the Bible. We also look at “explicit” and “implicit” truth to answer the questions as to why the word “trinity” is not in the Bible, but is still a Biblical truth.

If you want to see the PowerPoint slides full size, click on that image. To download the notes, click on the second image.

Study of the Trinity, #1, full size slideTrinity #1 notes

Class notes on The Mormon view of god in contrast with the Biblical view of God, part one

March 6, 2012 by untilfulllight

Here are the copies of the notes from class, just click on an image to download the full-size PDF:

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We won't see things clearly until we see our Lord, but on the path to that full light, we have the Bible as our light and guide. For much of my life I've tried to study, share, and teach the Bible. This blog pulls together many of those attempts, not as a final answer to any of the topics, but perhaps as a first gleam of dawn to help others on their journey.

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