A Sanctuary for Biblical Logic

Saving faith or saving belief is an intellectual assent to understood propositions of the Gospel. We first hear, think and understand what the doctrines of the Gospel are. Secondly, we agree or assent to the understood doctrines of the Gospel (in other words, we say yes to the teachings of the Gospel we heard, thought and understood). These are the only two core essentials of saving faith or belief.   It’s all in the mind. The Holy Spirit works in our mind to believe.   Most people reading this would be asking: “we also must trust in the Lord Jesus with our heart, isn’t it?”   Legitimate question.   Intellectual assent to understood propositions of the Gospel has no difference from a common saying: I put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart. Why? Mind (the intellect, thinking) = heart Heart ≠ emotion The heart ≠ a mindless aspect of the soul. The heart is also ≠ the very centre of a person’s being, where fundamental directio...

  Regularly talking and thinking about death is not pessimistic, but a realistic way of living. Facing the inevitable each day, for the Christians, is God’s preordained means to live a responsible life in this temporary world and to remind us of the future Great Haven that God has promised those who believe in Him. Being in the healthcare surgical industry (not as a surgeon, but as a medical device representative), I see pain almost every day in the operating theatres. This is what I like about my job, not that I take pleasure in the suffering of others, but it always reminds me of Ecclesiastes 7:2-4 in my life: “ It is better to go to the house of mourning , than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart . Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better . The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth” . The...

  It is common for Christians to believe that Jesus died for all men without exception. From the time of Adam until the end of time, Christ died for every single person bar none. Jesus died for people who were already in hell like Pharaoh and Esau, bound for the lake of fire which is the second death. Jesus also died for Judas Iscariot, becoming the Propitiation for his sins (1 John 2:2), yet he still goes to hell and is bound for the lake of fire to face the wrath of God? ( Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary: To propitiate is to appease, to atone, to turn away the wrath of an offended person. In the case before us, the wrath turned away is the wrath of God; the person making the propitiation is Christ; the propitiating offering or sacrifice is his blood). Something seems strange. It’s either Christ’s death fails to propitiate for the sins of some, or there is a fatal flaw in their scriptural interpretation. I am sure that it is the latter. God is loving, gracious a...

  Psa 73:1  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.  God is only good to the elect and no one else. Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. He is good to only those who heart has been sovereignly cleansed by the blood of Christ, forever justified.   Psa 73:2  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.  And yet we are still trapped in this body of death and sin-filled world. In our sanctification while still on this earth, we are prone to backsliding. Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  We fight, grapple and wrestle against a monster called sin ea...

This article aims to explain the doctrine of God's Love, unadulterated by the emotions of man.  We love him, because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19) The elect of God are God’s beloved before the foundation of the world. He loved us first in eternity (where there was never any moment that He did not love His elect) and that causes His elect to love Him in earthly time and space. In other words, we can believe in Him because God has unconditionally chosen us in Christ in eternity. The opposite of 1 John 4:19 is equally true for the wicked reprobates: they do not love Him, because He first never loved them. The wicked reprobates do not love Him and will never love Him because God has no love for them at all in the first place.   God has no lesser love (commonly called universal, general love) than His electing, salvific and special love. There is only one love of God i.e. His eternal particular love for the elect alone that causes their salvation, manifested in true repent...