Author: David Ellis

Don: The Truth personified in Jesus is a living, vital, transforming Truth: So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is…

Don: Jesus said: “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;…” (John 5:39) This tells us that the passion and the quest for truth about God is really a request for eternal life. This helps explain the radical nature of the pursuit—and…

Don: What we have been discussing is not just any truth, not scientific truth. We have been and are discussing specifically the truth about God. Why does Wo/Man have such an insatiable desire to pursue this truth, often with extreme and violent reaction? Why do we need to find God? It seems self-evident that there…

Don: We usually think of the truth as being a principle, idea, set of beliefs, or dataset of empirical information—some thing that corresponds to some reality. We don’t think of it as being some body. Jesus said that the Spirit of Truth is “He,” and that He will liberate you from something and sanctify you…

Don: The idea of the narrowing of the Way is mentioned twice by Jesus: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is…

Jay: At the end of last week’s discussion we began to explore a seeming contradiction in scripture. On the one hand, we are shown a picture suggesting that most people will be saved: After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and…

Don: Is Jesus truly the only way to God? After all, he said no-one comes to the Father except through him. Does this mean that only Christians can be saved? What about the billions today and throughout history who do not know or have not not known Christ, including those who lived before he came…

Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love…

Don: If we are saved by grace, what is the purpose of works? Scripture appears conflicted over the matter: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9) Romans and Galatians repeat…