Building on the Foundation

A topic recently came up that bore more looking into, so I thought I’d take some time to look into it. The controversy is over the accounts of Paul’s conversion because they seem to be different in the different places they are used. Here are the three accounts, and as you read through them, you can start to notice the differences that exist. I’ll go through all three here in a minute, but I want to explain a little bit about why it is so important to rectify this controversy. If Paul wasn’t even faithful in his words, how can we trust anything he wrote?  Well, as we’ll see, there are at least two explanations of what is going on here. I’d also like to draw your attention to the fact that Luke is the one who recorded all three instances, and being a doctor, it would be pretty odd for him to knowingly introduce errors like this into the record.  The Controversy Acts 9:7 CSB The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the sound but seeing no one. Acts 22:9 CSB ...

There are many go-to verses that we are quite familiar with in the Church of God; verses for just about every situation you might come across, and to refute all kinds of modern pagan religion. The Bible is a sword, after all, and it is quite powerful in the real sort of warfare we engage in on a daily basis. For instance, people in the world will tell you to “follow your heart,” meaning that whatever desire might cross the screen of your heart should be followed. You should essentially let your desires and emotions rule your life rather than any form of discipline or written code as in the case of the Christian religion. Though the problem with this is obvious, many Christians buy into this false idea that the heart is something to be followed. Jeremiah said something about this when he said, The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9 (AFV) This is similar to the ideas that are echoed in Genesis and in Proverbs, the idea that the he...