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Scripture Commentary article 2012-11-30

Did God hang babies out to dry with the rest of sinning humanity?

My last post on Judas brought up a discussion of Jesus’ words about Judas and what it would have been like for him had he not been born.

James 1:15 Jeremiah 19:4–5 Jeremiah 7:31 Soteriology Calvinism

Scripture Commentary article 2012-02-07

Masculine Christianity

This is part 2 of What God intended at creation and it is inspired by a recent lecture given by John Piper where he states that God’s intention for Christianity is for it to have a “ masculine feel “. After discussing John Piper’s Masculine Christianity, I will give my critique of his masculine argu

1 Corinthians 2:1 1 Timothy 2:12 2 Kings 22:3 Ephesians 5 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation

Scripture Commentary article 2007-12-07

Laying A False Argument To Rest

One of the arguments that complementarians employ against women in ministry is the argument that God only used women as prophets and leaders in the Bible when there were no men available at the time. Is this really a valid argument

2 Kings 22:12 2 Kings 22:13 2 Kings 22:14 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-27

To help condense an important extended rebuttal to @HwsEleutheroi James White's claim that God ordains evil, I've summarized Cheryl's points in the following: 1. White claims God decrees evil but is not the author of sin. Her rebuttal cites Jeremia...

To help condense an important extended rebuttal to @HwsEleutheroi James White's claim that God ordains evil, I've summarized Cheryl's points in the following: 1. White claims God decrees evil but is

Jeremiah 19:5 general

Theology verse entry

2 Kings 22:14-20

Sections: exegesis

2 Kings 22:14-20 huldah,prophetess,women leadership,josiah,book of the law

Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Jim's claim about Christmas trees: first-century Romans practiced Christmas trees, first-century Christians adopted it, and the New Testament contains a specific passage telling them to stop — but they ignored it

Fifth major claim Mike refutes — biblical origin of Christmas trees

Jeremiah 10 church history apologetics Christmas trees

Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Refutation: the only text Jim could be referring to is Jeremiah 10, written 600 years before Jesus — it describes carving a tree into an idol, not decorating a Christmas tree, and has nothing to do with New Testament Christianity or Roman practices

Mike carefully exegetes Jeremiah 10:1–5 to show what the passage actually means

Did God hang babies out to dry with the rest of sinning humanity?

Masculine Christianity

Laying A False Argument To Rest

To help condense an important extended rebuttal to @HwsEleutheroi James White's claim that God ordains evil, I've summarized Cheryl's points in the following: 1. White claims God decrees evil but is not the author of sin. Her rebuttal cites Jeremia...

2 Kings 22:14-20

Jim's claim about Christmas trees: first-century Romans practiced Christmas trees, first-century Christians adopted it, and the New Testament contains a specific passage telling them to stop — but they ignored it

Refutation: the only text Jim could be referring to is Jeremiah 10, written 600 years before Jesus — it describes carving a tree into an idol, not decorating a Christmas tree, and has nothing to do with New Testament Christianity or Roman practices

Introduction: Jeremiah 10 and the Christmas tree question

Presenting the opposing argument: YouTube channel 'Truth Unedited' claims Jeremiah 10 is about Christmas trees

Anachronism: the fundamental interpretive error in reading Jeremiah 10 as being about Christmas trees

Jeremiah 10:1-2 context: 'Don't learn the ways of the nations' is not a blanket prohibition

Jeremiah 10:3-4: The craftsman detail rules out Christmas trees

Jeremiah 10:5: The passage explicitly calls the object an idol, not a tree

Psalm 115 as a parallel passage: idols have mouths but cannot speak

Jeremiah 10:6-9: The passage continues with explicit idol language, not tree language

Jeremiah 10:10-15: The climax of the passage — idols vs. the living God

Isaiah 60:13 shows God using trees to beautify his sanctuary — trees are not inherently pagan symbols

Other misapplied passages: 'prostituted themselves under every green tree' is about idols under trees, not trees themselves

Christians are not obligated either to have or to avoid Christmas trees — liberty of conscience

Online 'Christmas is pagan' content relies on unverifiable sources — zeal without knowledge

Q&A: What does a Christmas tree have to do with Jesus? Brief history of Christmas tree origin

Symbolism is assigned by the person, not inherent to the object — trees have no intrinsic spiritual meaning

What makes something a pagan custom vs. a neutral one: the test is whether it is meaningfully tied to worship of a false god

Closing: Check the context — the primary safeguard against Scripture misuse

Jeremiah 1:5 — 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you' refers to God's plan for Jeremiah, not pre-conception literal existence

God's choices of Jacob, Abraham, Moses, prophets — not favoritism but purposive grace for non-salvific roles

Preaching with a stutter: accept your limitations, resist performing, and trust God to use you or redirect you

Biblical self-worth holds extreme value (image of God) and extreme humility (sinfulness) in tension; neither arrogance nor false modesty is biblical.

Are individuals made by God? Yes — through both direct soul creation and divine foreknowledge/providential design

Why Would God Give us our Heart’s Desires?: Why would God give us the desires of our hearts (Psalm 37:4) if the heart is deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9)?

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