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Biblical evidence for a young earth Stay in the battle! Steve

Various ways students interpret Genesis 1: “Young Earth,” “Gap Theory,” “Day-Age,” “Theistic Evolution,” “Allegorical/Symbolic/Mythological/Poetic interpretation.” How Christians have become intimidated by Philosophical Naturalists. Some scientific evidence that points to a young earth. Stay in the battle! Steve Stay in the battle! Steve

Romans 7:14-25 has been a controversial passage for many centuries. This is part 2 of a two-part study, in which I attempt to clarify why I am convinced that the “minority” is the correct one. If you adhere to the “majority” interpretation, […]

Romans 7:14-25 has been a controversial passage for many centuries. In this two-part study, I attempt to clarify why I am convinced that the “minority” is the correct one. If you adhere to the “majority” interpretation, please don’t see this study so […]

10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the […]

7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not […]

But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (Romans 7:6) Stay in the battle! Steve

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for […]

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband […]

This is a brief (~ 6-minute) excerpt from Steve’s introduction to Romans 7. It encourages Christians to be gracious when they find themselves disagreeing with other believers about secondary or tertiary issues.