The Narrow Path Ministries

It is most gratifying to see the loving response to our brother Paidion, but then, knowing the folks that post here, I am not surprised in the least. I had talked to his wife some time back and knew of his situation but had assured her I would leave it to her (and Paidion, of course) when and if the...

If I may comment. Romans 2:12-15 (New King James Version) 12. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13. (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justif...

And why would we think God is unable to accomplish more than one thing through Christ's atonement? I believe He set us free and also internalized the punishment due us. There is a cost to forgiveness and He bore that cost. My own view of imputed righteousness is probably somewhat different than the ...

Hi RV, I am not saying that this applies to your case in any way. For many years I prayed that God would bring a person to repentance. I prayed that God would bring something into the person's life that would cause (I hoped) this particular person to turn to God and be saved. Knowing that troubles a...

Hi Darrin, About 200 years ago in this country, the idea of "experimental religion", or "Christian experience" was popular in this country, and I believe the practice of giving a "conversion testimony" at baptism, rather than a simple confession of faith, has descended from the old Calvinist practic...

Hi Suzana, The only information I have regarding the man is in the story I related. I heard it from a representative of a seminary in a presentation many years ago. He told the story with much more detail, something about the man claiming he had seen a bull with eyes of fire, but I do not recall the...

Hi TK, You wrote: each baptism is preceded by a videotaped testimony(presumably for time reasons) of the person being baptized, In his essay Baird also described the way the convert's "testimony" became a part of the conversion ritual. The Puritans believed that the church must be restricted to only...

I think Suzana nailed it when she wrote: at water baptism each person was asked if they confessed Jesus as Lord (or words to that effect), just prior to being dunked. An essay by Jim Baird, Baptism and its Substitutes as Rituals of Initiation in American Protestantism, delves into the subject much m...

Hi Darrin, Prayer is a good thing, but I find it interesting that nowhere in the New Testament (unless I am mistaken) is anyone ever told to pray at (or for) conversion. It does not seem to be hinted at, or to be any part on the conversion process, if that is what it might be called. I believe Peter...

First I must say that I am not an open-theist. But consider this: if God is outside time, and he knows all the past as well as all the future, then He knows evereything He will do in the future which would include every thought He will think. So it would not seem possible for God to ever have a new ...