(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: 1 Kings 15:13-Also he removed Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and burned it by the Brook Kidron. 2 Kings 23:4-And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the... Continue Reading →
The Holy Spirit Speaks Through The Scriptures
(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: John 6:63-It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. Once while in a Bible study in the local jail, a gentleman informed me that the Holy Spirit often spoke directly... Continue Reading →
Learning To Pray (One)
(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: Luke 11:1-Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." Jesus taught His disciples how to pray. We need to... Continue Reading →
Miracles Versus Miraculous Gifts
(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: 1 Corinthians 13:8-10-Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come,... Continue Reading →
“Does The Bible Really Say That? (Three) Believers Will Take Up Serpents?”
(More Bible Studies Available @ http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: Mark 16:17-19-And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Conclusion)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25) Calvinism... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Nineteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.” (John 7:17) Calvinists are terribly divided on the topic of freewill. Some Calvinists maintain that mankind does not truly have... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Seventeen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) Our Calvinist friends, in accordance with their teaching of unconditional election, claim that God predestined the vast majority of mankind to Hell... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Sixteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3-4) Having examined several of the passages of Scripture which Calvinists misrepresent to try and... Continue Reading →
Unconditional Election (Fifteen)
(More Bible Studies Available At http://www.marktabata.com) It is written: “And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to... Continue Reading →