The dispensation of conscience, the time immediately after the fall of man when Adam and Eve were banished from the garden of Eden, we've also deduced was the first purification of heaven.
Angels That Sinned
The Purification of Heaven Part 1
Satan has been depicted as a mastermind who changed the course of history. The reality is, the course of history didn't change, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Satan is a pawn.
Tithes and Offerings
It may seem like an odd departure from our discussion of the war in heaven to bring up tithes and offerings, but it may be an important clue. Why a tithe, 10%? What's the significance of this number?
Hell is Below, Heaven is Above
Hell is down, deep and below; heaven is up, high and above. There are many examples in scripture which are consistent with this orientation. Hell is never referred to as above, heaven is never referred to as below.
YEC Spaghetti Theology
Young Earth creationists (YECs) have been fighting the good fight for decades but it has led to the current situation where it looks like Christianity and intellectual exploration are different ends of a spectrum.
A Woman Clothed with the Sun
Help can be both giving or receiving direction. Somewhere along the line the idea of helping and the role of subservience have been placed in an unequal yoke.
The Bread from Heaven
Jesus begins his attempt to describe energy transformation with the difference between food that perishes and food that endures. To Jesus, the almighty God, it's a simple matter of changing the energetic state of matter.
Deliver Your Soul From Death
Being dead doesn't mean we cease to exist. Dead or alive refers to the condition of our soul's relationship to God. God has power over the life and death of the soul through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
You Can’t Keep Your Soul Alive
The bad news is that you, your own self, can't keep your soul alive. The good news is that it can be kept alive through faith in Jesus Christ.
Alive or Dead?
Paul's writing to people who are metabolically alive and telling them that they were dead and now they're alive, clearly he's not talking about their bodies, he's talking about their souls. We've identified two states of the soul.