By Bob Wilkin and Zane Hodges Question: Doesn’t Matthew 7:15-20 teach that all believers will inevitably have some good fruit in their lives? Does the evidence of good works in a person’s life prove they are saved? Bob Wilkin (BW): The saying, “You will know them by their fruits,” is found twice in Matt 7:15-20,

By J. Paul Tanner The proposals presented here are based on the assumption that the dates given in the Bible are taken at face value and that the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 are “tight” (without gaps). A detailed elaboration and defense of these calculations appear in my article “Old Testament Chronology and Its

I recently did some reading in Church history and one of the things I learned is that 2 Pet 1:10 was often used to teach that a person cannot know if he or she is spiritually saved unless they look at their good works. That is still true today. In this verse, Peter says that

My very first phone call on my very first day of work at GES was from a lady asking about Joseph Prince. “Do you preach the same message he does?” she asked. If we did, she wanted to begin donating to the ministry. Talk about pressure! Unfortunately, I had to tell her the truth, i.e.,

There have been many articles which have evaluated modern Bible translations in light of theological concerns, in light of their handling of the Old and New Testaments, and in terms of their use of English style.1 In this article, which is a modified version of a journal article I wrote on this subject a decade

By David Janssen Do you have china dishes in a china cabinet at your house? We do. My wife was given a set when she was young, and ever since we got married, we have been moving boxes of them around with us. Now in Sandy, Utah, we even have a nice oak cabinet to

Many Bible teachers are fond of a saying that goes like this: “You are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” Doesn’t that sound neat? It states a fundamental truth—that we are saved by faith alone—then turns around and states that while it is faith alone that saves us, that