The Way to God - Jesus. The Way to Jesus - the Cross.

Here is an important reminder. What are the odds of 100 prophecies being fulfilled by chance alone?  Impossible. Very impossible.  Here are the odds: 1×10^−120/1×10^−120. To give a practical example to illustrate how small the number is, ChatGPT 4 compares it to the number of atoms in the observable universe: Atoms in the Observable Universe: The estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is around 10^80. Therefore, 1×10^−120/1×10^−120 is much smaller than the reciprocal of the number of atoms in the universe. It’s like imagining you had one specific atom in a universe multiplied by many orders of magnitude of more universes.  Putting It Into Perspective, Tiny Probability: The probability is so small that it is beyond practical experience. It is effectively zero for any physical or probabilistic event we can conceive of in reality.  Scale Comparison: If the universe were filled with grains of sand and each grain represented another univer...

I am including two book excerpts in this blogpost. The first is from my book, " Are Women Saved through Childbearing? " The second is from " Sailing into the Storm of Christian Controversies ." When Adam joined Eve in eating what God had forbidden, was that the first act of chivalry in the human race? Did Adam eat to join Eve in death? Adam knew his bride was doomed at that point, and he did not leave her to die alone. He joined her. Is that what Christ did as well? He joined us in death. He did not leave us to die alone, but He did what Adam could not do, and by His death, He gave us our lives back.   Was Adam’s action a prophetic act? Did it foreshadow what Jesus would do? Jesus became mortal for the creation He loved. Had Adam deliberately "become mortal" for the woman he loved? Jesus fully understood what He was doing. I don’t believe Adam would have if my theory is correct. Was Adam’s act the first selfless act of mankind; one with devastating consequ...

My Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew have grown rusty, though I do periodically refresh my Greek studies, and I still remember quite a bit of it. (I don't attempt my own translations anymore because I know which translations I trust - primarily the NET Bible but others as well.) I also have all of my resources from my studies and use them frequently. The lexical form of the word translated "falling away" in 2Thessalonians 2:3 is ἀποστασία. If you do not have access to a Greek/English lexicon, I have included the entry from Walter Bauer's 2nd Edition Greek/English lexicon below. You can read how the word was understood at the time of Jesus and before. (I recommend BDAG for a more in-depth look, but I do not currently have access to it.) The word "ἀποστασία" does not refer to the rapture of the church. Andy Woods is one of the teachers who teaches that. He also appears to teach that the "dead in Christ" are unfaithful Christians who have stopped bel...