Alētheia

We often hear the battle cry in the news and in social circles today that we are to be tolerant. We must tolerate this person or that one who is different from us. But is tolerance a good thing? Well, that depends on just what it is you are tolerating. If a person is doing something contrary to God’s will we should love that person but we should not tolerate their sin. But isn’t that contradictory you might ask? No. If you are a parent and you have told your child to not do something but the child does it anyway do you just turn your head the other way and let the child do as he or she wishes? No. A good parent will discipline their child because they love that child and have their best interests at heart. In other words, the parent is intolerant of the bad behavior but still loves the child. Through discipline and instruction the child will learn to do what is right. In the same way, Christians should be intolerant of sin but still love the sinner.   Take for example the life...

  I hope you are as intrigued by this blog entry as I am in writing it. Before I proceed any further though allow me to set the stage. The information that follows is not the result of my own research, instead it is a theory proposed to me one day by Terry Rikard, the minister at the Mebane St. church of Christ . My contribution is relegated to A) editing and rewriting the information in a way that hopefully flows well and B) publishing it here on my blog.   Was Jesus born on December 25? I believe any person who has studied the Bible at all can attest to the fact that the Bible nowhere states that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th. Through a careful study and assimilation of the scriptures though, as well as a knowledge of Jewish history, customs and traditions we can put together a clearer picture of when Christ was truly born.   For our purposes the story of the birth of Christ begins with Zacharias (also spelled Zechariah), the father of John the Baptist. ...

alētheia (al-ay'-thi-a): Greek word for "truth" As a rule, truth is unchanging. If something is true it will be true till the end of time. Circumstances around a truth may change, but truth never will. It is an absolute. The word of God is truth. It is unchanging. It is an absolute. Circumstances and situations in life may change but God's word will NEVER change. What was true 2000 years ago is true today. The events of the world has changed in 2000 years but God's word has not changed. People today experience much of the same things that people have experienced since God first created man - jealousy, lust, anger, hate, love, war - all of these things are still with us today. Circumstances around us have changed over the eons, we've progressed, modernized and become more sophisticated in everything we do, yet through it all truth has never faltered or changed. The purpose of this blog is to examine different aspects of God's word or God's truth for Jo...