Modern-Day Apostle Illusion
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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion

In recent decades the question has taken on new urgency because of movements that ordain modern-day "apostles" and "prophets" with governing authority over networks of churches, sometimes claiming fresh revelation on par with, or supplementary to, the Scriptures the first apostles left behind.

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'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14
Biblical Context

'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14

In both Hebrew and Greek thought, a "name" was never merely a label for identification — it encompassed a person's reputation, authority, character, and standing.

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Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ
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Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." — John 1:14 (NASB 1995) Both titles Scripture gives to Jesus of Nazareth — Son of God and Son of Man

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Christ

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How Jesus Cast Out Demons
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How Jesus Cast Out Demons

"What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him." — Mark 1:27 (NASB95) The crowd in the Capernaum synagogue was not amazed that a demon came out of a man. Exorcists were a known quantity in the first-century

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6 Min
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Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied
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Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied

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Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return
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Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return

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Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself
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Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself

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Truth & Integrity
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Truth & Integrity

"Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight." — Proverbs 12:22 (NASB95) Overview Truthfulness is theology before it is etiquette: the God of the Bible is אֵל אֱמֶת — the God of truth (אֱמֶת, ʾemeth, Strong&

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By: Dedrick Wright
Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." — Matthew 28:19 (NASB95) Most arguments for the Trinity are cumulative. You establish that the Father is God, then that the Son is God,

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?
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Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" — Deuteronomy 6:4 (NASB95) This is the objection that carries the most weight, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a clever one. Israel confessed one God for roughly fifteen centuries without confessing three persons.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?
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Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?

"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever." — John 14:16 (NASB95) The Watch Tower's New World Translation renders every occurrence of the term in lowercase — "holy spirit" — and the organization teaches that

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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"Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight." — Proverbs 12:22 (NASB95) Overview Truthfulness is theology before it is etiquette: the God of the Bible is אֵל אֱמֶת — the God of truth (אֱמֶת, ʾemeth, Strong&

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By: Dedrick Wright
Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as warning, never as relish.

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By: Dedrick Wright
The Nature of Man
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The Nature of Man

The Bible's answer is clear and comprehensive: human beings are uniquely created personal beings who exist at the intersection of the material and the spiritual, made in the image of God, mortal yet immortal, temporal yet with an eternal destiny.

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The Fall of Man
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The Fall of Man

The Fall of Man is the central catastrophic event of human history. Everything that is wrong with the world — suffering, death, moral corruption, broken relationships, spiritual alienation — traces back to this moment.

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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion
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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion

In recent decades the question has taken on new urgency because of movements that ordain modern-day "apostles" and "prophets" with governing authority over networks of churches, sometimes claiming fresh revelation on par with, or supplementary to, the Scriptures the first apostles left behind.

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23 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Twisting Scripture To Your Own Destruction - 2 Peter 3:16
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Twisting Scripture To Your Own Destruction - 2 Peter 3:16

This post stands over the whole Biblical Context series of blog posts as its foundation. Every other post takes a single verse that has been pulled loose from its moorings — Jeremiah 29:11 off a coffee mug, Malachi 3:10 turned into a tithing dare, Psalm 105:15 weaponized to

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By: Dedrick Wright
'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14
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'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14

In both Hebrew and Greek thought, a "name" was never merely a label for identification — it encompassed a person's reputation, authority, character, and standing.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Money and Stewardship
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Money and Stewardship

Stewardship's doctrine in one line each: God owns everything; we manage on trust. Money is a rival god — it cannot be co-served with God, and loving it roots every sort of evil.

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By: Dedrick Wright

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How the Trinity Saves You
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How the Trinity Saves You

"But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son… Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" — Galatians 4:4, 6 (NASB95) The Trinity is often taught as a puzzle to

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Law vs Grace
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Law vs Grace

As ways of standing righteous before God, law and grace are mutually exclusive — Scripture allows no blend: "if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace" (Romans 11:6). The Law's currency is doing; grace's currency is believing what has been done.

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Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as warning, never as relish.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Heaven and Rewards
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Heaven and Rewards

The doctrine of heaven and rewards runs on the two rails laid at the start: salvation free, reward earned-in-grace — the gift secures the person; the bema assesses the work.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Creation

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Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do
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Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do

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Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are
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Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are

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Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation
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Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation

The Bible assumes a populated universe. Alongside the world we can see, Scripture describes an entire order of created beings — messengers, burning ones, living creatures, archangels, thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities — made by God, ranked under Him, and active in the affairs of both heaven and earth. This two-part

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Where Did Demons Come From?
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Where Did Demons Come From?

"For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment." — 2 Peter 2:4 (NASB95) Most people assume the Bible answers this question somewhere in the opening chapters: Satan fell, took a third

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The Kaaba, the Crescent, and the Name of God - What the Evidence Actually Shows
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The Kaaba, the Crescent, and the Name of God - What the Evidence Actually Shows

For several decades, a particular argument has circulated widely in English-speaking Christian apologetics: that Allah was originally the moon god of pre-Islamic Arabia, that Muhammad simply elevated one deity out of the Meccan pantheon and dropped the rest, and that the crescent atop every minaret is the surviving

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Jinn or Fallen Spirits - What Islam and the Bible Teach About the Unseen
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Jinn or Fallen Spirits - What Islam and the Bible Teach About the Unseen

"And He created the jinn from a smokeless flame of fire." — Qur'an 55:15 "And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day." — Jude

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6 Min
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Ancient African Kemetic
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Ancient African Kemetic

Kemet — Kmt, "the Black Land," named for the dark alluvial soil of the Nile floodplain — is the indigenous name for ancient Egypt, and Kemetic spirituality is the modern movement that seeks to recover and practice its religion. Two distinct things travel under the name, and both need to

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Who are the Seventh-day Adventists?
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Who are the Seventh-day Adventists?

The Seventh-day Adventist Church emerged from the Millerite movement of the 1840s and was formally organized in 1863. It reports over 23 million baptized members worldwide, operates one of the largest Protestant-style education and healthcare networks on earth (including Loma Linda University and thousands of schools and hospitals)

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God

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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." — Matthew 28:19 (NASB95) Most arguments for the Trinity are cumulative. You establish that the Father is God, then that the Son is God,

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?
God Trinity Christianity Old Testament

Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" — Deuteronomy 6:4 (NASB95) This is the objection that carries the most weight, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a clever one. Israel confessed one God for roughly fifteen centuries without confessing three persons.

•
6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?
Holy Spirit God Christianity

Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?

"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever." — John 14:16 (NASB95) The Watch Tower's New World Translation renders every occurrence of the term in lowercase — "holy spirit" — and the organization teaches that

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
How the Trinity Saves You
Christianity God Trinity Soteriology

How the Trinity Saves You

"But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son… Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" — Galatians 4:4, 6 (NASB95) The Trinity is often taught as a puzzle to

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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Eschatology

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The End of the Demons - Chains, the Abyss, and the Eternal Fire
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The End of the Demons - Chains, the Abyss, and the Eternal Fire

"Have You come here to torment us before the time?" — Matthew 8:29 (NASB95) Read that question again, because the demons have given away more than they intended. They do not ask whether they will be tormented. They do not argue their case, protest their innocence, or dispute

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as warning, never as relish.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The New Heaven & New Earth
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The New Heaven & New Earth

The Bible does not end with souls floating up to heaven; it ends with heaven coming down to a renewed earth. The story that opens with "God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:1 closes with "a new heaven and a new earth" Revelation 21:1 — creation not discarded but reborn.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
The Final Judgment
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The Final Judgment

The crucified and resurrected Son administers judgment, which either completes salvation or confirms a rejection previously chosen: the believer, judged in his Substitute, proceeds to reward evaluation; the rejecter meets his denied word as judge.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.

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