A temporary or partial diminution of one’s spiritual commitment. It is less serious or major than apostasy.
How to Avoid Backsliding Today
CHRISTIANS: How Serious is Apostasy?
Apostasy: A “falling away,” usually a deliberate and total abandonment of the faith previously held. Apostate: One who departs from the faith.
PERSEVERANCE is an Essential Virtue in the Face of Satan’s World
Although the noun “perseverance” occurs in the KJV and RSV only once (Eph. 6:18), the concept is frequent, being translated “continued steadfastly,” “devoted,” “constant,” and the idea of persistence, keeping on, patient endurance occurs very often.
Does God Foreknowing That Judas Iscariot Will betray Jesus, Predestine Him, or coerce Him to act Against His Free Will?
Foreknowledge is the concept of knowledge regarding future events. The Problem: If God knows, then He knows everything. So then, God would know what will happen tomorrow, next year, or one thousand years from now. Furthermore, an omniscient being is never wrong. Therefore, it seems that it would follow that whatever God knows will happen in the future will happen in the future. Below we will unravel this supposed problem.
Does the Old Testament Teach Salvation by Works?
According to Genesis 15:6, Abram did not buy righteousness with his faith. Rather, God gave Abram righteousness, which means right standing or acceptability before God.
The Biblical Theology of the Apostle Paul
We will briefly study the Biblical Theological beliefs of the Apostle Paul. Biblical theology is a discipline of Christian theology that restricts its study to the Scriptures, and it seeks to determine what the biblical writers said about the issue.
EVOLUTION: Fact or Fantasy?
The Bible book of Genesis plainly states that God created humans as well as various animal and plant life. Theistic evolution suggests that Genesis is not ... Do people try to persuade you that creation is a legend and evolution is a fact? Should you believe them? Consider reasons to question evolution. Was life created or did it evolve? Make an informed judgment after examining evidence from the Bible and from recent scientific studies.
Are the Days of Genesis to Be Interpreted Literally?
This question has stoked controversy among conservative Christians in recent times, but it has proved to be of little interest to theistic evolutionists (those who accept evolution as God’s mechanism in creation) and those rejecting Genesis as God’s inerrant Word. The debate has been primarily between young-and old-earth creationists.
Abaddon (Hebrew) and Apollyon (Greek) mean “Destruction” and “Destroyer”
The name Ἀπολλύων (Apollyōn) comes from ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi) which means “I destroy.” So the Greek term has the same meaning as the Hebrew Ἀβαδδὼν (Abaddōn), “Destroyer.”
THEOLOGY: New Heavens and New Earth
The biblical doctrine of the created universe includes the certainty of its final redemption from the domination of sin. The finally redeemed universe is called “the new heavens and new earth.”