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Are We All Children of God?
Rapp Report Daily 0434 Are We All Children of God? You hear this often that people will say we are all children of God. Some will try to argue that because we are all children of God, we are all going to heaven. Are we all children of God? Well not according to God we...
Why Gay Christianity Is A False Religion
[Ed.Note: The following article is being republished with the author's permission. The original article was published in the Pueblo West Baptist Church newsletter and on the pastor's personal blog, teddmathis.com. BA] Tedd Mathis is pastor of Pueblo West Baptist...
What Does Totally Depravity Mean?
Rapp Report Daily 0433 What Does Totally Depravity Mean? What does total depravity mean? This is something that often triggers some people and gets them not thinking about the proper definitions but false definitions. So we want to be precise in definitions that we...
Adam and Eve Did Not Die After Eating the Fruit
Rapp Report Daily 0432 Adam and Eve Did Not Die After Eating the Fruit A challenge we often see is that Adam and Eve were supposedly promised to die immediately after eating of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil. We see this in Genesis 2:17. It says " of the...
What Does it Mean to be Created in the Image of God?
Rapp Report Daily 0431 What Does it Mean to be Created in the Image of God? What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Some religions have some confusion with this. If you look at say Mormonism you are going to see that they believe that being made in the...
Jesus Never Rose from the Dead
Rapp Report Daily 0430 Jesus Never Rose from the Dead Many make the claim that Jesus Christ never rose from the dead. This is an essential argument because if Jesus never rose from the dead then we would be dead in our sins. This is an argument that Paul makes and you...
The Role of the Holy Spirit – Part 2
Last week in Part 1 of the Role of the Holy Spirit we discussed the character of the third Person of the Trinity and some of His roles. In Part 2, we will be further discussing the role and function of the Holy Spirit in regards to daily life and with a special...
Jesus Never Existed
Rapp Report Daily 0429 Jesus Never Existed A common argument that we hear only in the last say 40 years is the argument that Jesus never actually existed. He was just a myth. Something that the gospel writers embellished. People later on in the Catholic Church made...
How Can Christ’s Death Pay for Someone’s Sin?
Rapp Report Daily 0428 How Can Christ's Death Pay for Someone's Sin? Sometimes people will challenge you with a question of how can one person's death pay the price of another person's crime or sin. In other words, how can Christ's death on the cross be a payment for...