God is Love, But Don’t Use That as an Excuse

I was watching a Christian movie not long ago called Heaven is For Real. It was an interesting story, but I was a bit shocked. First, this was a story about a reverend, his wife, and his church who struggled the entire time with the concept of believing that the reverend's son went to heaven by way of his spirit while he was unconscious in a hospital. This was shocking to me because if they couldn't believe this, how could they believe that....

Throwing Away the Gift of Salvation… accidentally

What is this lie that is being shared throughout Christianity that “we will never be perfect,” “there is nothing for us to DO,” and what are these lies about what “legalism” is to hinder people from perfecting themselves? The word legalism is not in the Holy Bible. Legalism is defined in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary App as a “strict, literal, or excessive conformity to the law or to a religious or moral code .” If that is the case, then Christians are legalists because the law, or commandments that we diligently adhere to, have not been done away with---as some would suggest---because we restrict ourselves from the freedom to sin, lest we die. The comparison of legalism to the hypocrites that Jesus rebuked, misleads many Christians into thinking that the hypocrite's hypocrisy was all about their strict adherence to the law and...