References:

(1) Relativism’s moral argument commits the “is-ought” fallacy.

(2) Premise 1 is false.

(3) Premise 2 violates the clear teaching of Scripture in Eph. 2:1-3.

(4)”The Message of Ephesians” by John Stott.

(5) Understand Eph. 2:1-3 in terms of the context of Eph. 1: 18-21.

(6) You and I can’t appreciate the height to which we have been elevated until we have a measurement of the depth from which we have come.

(7) Scripture refers to 3 types of death: physical death, the separation of the soul from the body in 1 Cor. 15:21-22; eternal death, separation from God throughout eternity in 2 Thess. 1:9; and spiritual death, separation of the human spirit from God in this life in Eph. 2:1-3.

(8) Three enslaving forces: the world, the flesh, and the devil.

(9) The New Atheists call God a “moral monster.”

(10) The progressive/emergent church, supposedly a segment of the Christian church, call God “a child abuser.”

(11) You might find publications who strongly disagree with historic Christianity on a variety of topics but especially on whether Jesus is the Son of God whose work on the cross can reconcile sinful man to God, the Bible is the word of God, and miracles, especially the resurrection of Jesus, are the acts of God.

(12) In prosperous America it will be hard to identify anything that makes any reference to you as a sinner, a sinner under the judgment of God, a sinner in need of salvation.

This is episode 90.