The scriptures are clear in characterizing God as our heavenly Father. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He instructed them to address God as their Father in heaven (Matthew 6:9). Paul wrote that we had “received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Romans 8:15). In 1 Peter 1:17 Peter said, “And if you call on the...

Some who profess to be Christians are what has been described as “red letter” Christians. In other words, they don’t believe that anything in the bible is binding on them unless it is written in red ink, referring to the practice in some editions of the bible of printing the words of Jesus in red. Their attitude is that if it isn’t in red, it...

In the first chapter of the book of Romans, the apostle Paul describes the appalling moral condition of the gentiles. He says that they are filled with “all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness” (verse 29). In verse 21 Paul also says that the gentiles...