Many believers today are avid subscribers of easy believism, as was I. Easy believism, if you’re not familiar with the term, is the idea that salvation is simply a one-time, instantaneous event that guarantees your ticket to heaven regardless of how you live thereafter or whether you stop believing altogether i.e. fall away/backslide. It’s a very popular doctrine in the church today, which largely explains why many believers subscribe to it. That and the fact that it sounds

In my recent post on abortion, someone shot me a message on the blog and asked, and i quote: "But let's say Those ladies who are raped are taken to the hospital and when you are in the hospital firstly they have to give you the medication because they are not sure if the raper was sick somewhere. So you find those pills will also terminate the sperm cells. So is that also abortion?" Unfortunately they didn't leave their email address, so I couldn't respond to them directly. H

It's quite interesting how human nature gravitates toward extreme or rare cases and allows them to become the lens through which God's Word is judged. Rape as a justification for abortion is one example, even though according to the National Library of Medicine, only 1.5-1.9% of all women seeking abortions cite rape as the reason. Some other examples include, "What if I wait until marriage and the sex is bad?" used by the pro-"test drive" brigade to justify premarital sex, or

The rain pounded, thunder roared, and lightning tore jagged scars across the sky. Men, women, and children clawed frantically at Noah's ark, now sealed shut, desperate to get in and escape the rising floodwaters. Etched into the side of the ark was a giant smiley face with the words "God loves you" below it. This is a grim picture of modern-day evangelism. It's akin to if Noah, as he faithfully built the ark, sought to evangelize by carving a giant smiley face on its side, wi