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Reconciling the Evangelical Paul with the Biblical Paul

Posted on 03/22/2024 by Paul Pavao

This is a re-issue of a 2023 post made on ancient-faith.com. A series of circumstances made me think I’d lose that URL, and I might. I do want to keep this blog alive, though, especially for saving things I’ve written … Continue reading →

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Bible Contradictions: Copyists’ Errors or the Word of God?

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Paul Pavao

There are contradictions in the Bible. The reason that most churches’ statement of faith says that the Bible is “free from error in the original manuscripts” is because they know that the Bible is not free from error in the … Continue reading →

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Luke 17: Faith and the Kingdom of God

Posted on 04/22/2020 by Paul Pavao

Today, in Luke 17:6, I read, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell the sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” As I have been reading … Continue reading →

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How I Became a Heretic (to the Evangelicals)

Posted on 12/14/2019 by Paul Pavao

I was raised Catholic, gave up on Catholicism, explored eastern mysticism as a teenager, and wound up agnostic at age 20. The prayers and daily witness of my first Air Force supervisor and some reading of the Gospels led to … Continue reading →

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Access to Grace: Romans 5:1-2

Posted on 04/25/2019 by Paul Pavao

There is a lot you can get from God by faith. If you have the right kind of faith, you could tell a tree to get up and replant itself somewhere else (Luke 17:6). The greatest thing you can get … Continue reading →

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We Can’t Do Anything Without Jesus

Posted on 06/15/2018 by

I hope at least a couple of you are wondering why I haven’t posted in a couple weeks. If you are one of those two people, lol, here is why. My attempt to expand last year’s “Rebuilding the Foundation” series … Continue reading →

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Faith, Works, and Setting Aside My Concerns

Posted on 10/24/2015 by Paul Pavao

Yesterday at a home school co-op class my 13-year-old daughter, Leilani, overheard some kids talking about faith and works. They were telling someone that there was no way to do enough works to go to heaven. Going to heaven, they … Continue reading →

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James 1:5-7 Revisited: Nothing Doubting

Posted on 01/16/2015 by Paul Pavao

We talked once about James 1:5-7 and how frightening it is that our prayers might not be answered because of a little doubt. What we determined was that the issue was not a little doubt that our prayers might be … Continue reading →

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James 1:5-7: Faith and Doubt

Posted on 11/14/2014 by Paul Pavao

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is … Continue reading →

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Far-Fetched Interpretations

Posted on 03/25/2014 by Paul Pavao

In researching how much the Reformers relied on or referenced the early church fathers, I ran across this article on The Old Jamestown Church blog. That particular post defends the Reformation view of salvation by faith alone with citations from … Continue reading →

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