The Old Testament saints receive their glorified bodies at the second coming of Christ. Until then, all people who die in the faith await the return of Christ. We do not know exactly what state they are in, but we do know that there will be a resurrection where we...
Question: When does the soul leave the body at death? Paul in his writings says that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, but when are we absent from the body? Some background. My wife has struggled with this trying to put her Christian faith...
Repentance is properly understood to mean a change of mind - a change of the intention from wanting to sin to not wanting to sin - that results in a change in action. It involves the decision to make a change of behavior and/or attitude about something. Biblically,...
If the person with which you wish to address this subject were not a Christian already, this would probably be a much different answer. Since you are talking with a believer, however, I will assume that this person believes in the authority of Scripture. Otherwise,...
The Covenant of Works, also known as the Edenic Covenant, is the covenant that God had with Adam in the Garden of Eden where Adam would maintain his position with God through his obedience to the command of God to multiply and fill the earth, subdue it, and also not...
The phrase "dead to sin" only occurs once in the Bible. Roman 6:11 says, "Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus." As Christians, we are dead to sin through our union with Christ. In other words, We are to consider ourselves...
Trinitarianism is the theological belief in Christianity that God is a Trinity. The Trinity is the teaching that there is only one God in all existence and that God exists in three distinct, simultaneous, co-eternal, co-powerful persons known as the Father, the Son,...
In Christianity, adiaphora means that something is debatable, spiritually neutral. There are essentials of the Christian faith such as the deity of Christ, monotheism, Christ's physical resurrection, etc. But there are also topics that deal with issues that are...
The Covenant of Grace is made between God and Man. This Covenant of Grace is where God promises eternal salvation to Man based upon the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. This is called a Covenant of Grace because it is initiated by God, due to no part and worthiness...
In the eternal covenant, God the Father and Jesus the Son made an agreement with regard to the elect. This covenant was made before the universe was created and it consisted of the Father promising to bring to the Son all whom the Father had given Him (John 6:39;...