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In some passages the bride is the Church.

I am a newer believer and sometimes get frustrated over all of the different doctrines in various churches. Can you help me sort these out?  

I know this for sure—you will not feel left out in Heaven. You see, you won’t be struggling with negative feelings and self-doubt. You will be whole and healthy and will see things through God’s eyes then and not a grid that is riddled with sin and distortion.

I don’t mean to be trite or cute, but after having considered who God is, the answer to this question is “because God didn’t want to.” 

The only obedience that is necessary for salvation is yielding to the requirements of the gospel (John 3:16, Acts 16:30,31). 

Wolfe has raised some valid observations about the American religious environment; many of which true Christian believers should carefully take note. I do not agree with his conclusion that evangelical Christianity is not much of a threat to secularists.

I’ll begin with some important prefacing remarks. I am absolutely committed to the centrality of local churches in God’s kingdom agenda. 

Leave it to a child to ask a great question which has no definitive Biblical answer. Here is what we know.

The point is where the New Jerusalem is located. It is brought down to the New Earth and is the capital city of the New Earth. 

One example would be the problem of evil and suffering that plagues Ollie in my novel Deception. 

I came to Christ in a church that was Arminian, so that was naturally my early leaning. I went to a Bible college and seminary that were both middle of the road where neither hard core Calvinism nor Arminianism often surfaced in class, though on a continuum, some faculty would lean more toward one than the other.

Satan labors to give people an inaccurate view of heaven.

Our theology tends to come from whatever we trust.

The box was based upon an experience a friend of mine had in Moscow back in 1990 where they were passing out free Bibles to people.