God Centered Dad

  It seems as if the world is beginning to come apart at the seams. There are protests and wars and violence everywhere. It could just be due to our western obsession with the news, but it just seems like everywhere I look these days there is violence and destruction. Whereas people used to go to work, now it seems like there are those who are either paid to protest, or perhaps the protests are a convenient cover for their theft and looting which is how they really pay the bills. Like I said in " Confusion as a Tool of Anarchy and Tyranny ", it is so hard to determine the truth of a matter these days. As much information as we have available to us, it may actually be getting harder to determine truth. Take, for example, the riots that have plagued Paris, Marseille and some other French cities as of late. If you look for information online, what you see is that virtually every single legacy media outlet has these riots labelled as the "PSG Riots", referring to a Euro...

   Have you noticed it? We are a society that is slipping. This is not the first time that a powerful society has done so, but this is the first time that said society encompasses the globe. Over the course of history, there have been numerous people groups that have built societies based on their collective values. Many of these have remained small while some morphed into empires, often conquering surrounding peoples and wrapping them up into their own growing society. One empire has often fallen to the expansion of another empire, yet my underdeveloped understanding of world history indicates to me that the empire that fell had already been in decline for some time before they succumbed to the newly rising empire. They may not have recognized it as a decline, in fact, they probably thought that they were living in the ultimate decadence of their society, but it was a decline none the less. The most recent empire that most people will consider is the Roman empire. It grew thr...

   Today I am going to attempt to explain my understanding of what happens to us when we die. I will not claim that what follows is Biblical doctrine, because there are verses that appear to be contrary to what I believe while there are also verses that seems to support what I believe. While this can be said of virtually any topic, a lot of times that has to do with whether or not one is reading the Word in context or not, and also whether one is trying to read their beliefs into Scripture instead of getting their beliefs from Scripture. This is somewhat different in that I think that God has left this topic intentionally vague for us. I can't presume to understand why He would do so, but I do know that there are some things that we just don't need to know yet. That doesn't mean that we can't develop a theory on these things. The main point of the following is to recognize that we need to use Scripture to interpret Scripture. If your understanding of a verse is contrary...

  In my recent article about the coming Great White Throne Judgment, which you can find  here , we looked at Revelation 20:13-15, which says, "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." In the context of that article, I did not have the time to look into the nature of "death and Hades" as mentioned in verse 13, but I think that there is value in studying it. I think that the nature of death, as mentioned above, especially as a non-capitalized word, is pretty simple. Since it is not capitalized, it does not refer to a specific place or power; it is quite simply the nature of the end of life. Once one ceases to be alive, they are dead. It ...

  There is a day of judgment coming for all of us. We are told this plainly in Romans 14:10-12 " But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall give praise to God.” 12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God ".  But not all of us will face the same type of judgment. There are many passages in the Bible that tell us that there is a coming judgment for the inhabitants of the world, but I think that there is some confusion regarding how that judgment will play out and also who will face that judgment. I think that there are sects of Christianity that believe that there is no judgment for those who have placed their faith in Christ. This may explain why there is such a bold defiance of Scripture in regards to the doctrine of once saved, always saved (...