Marv Wiseman

The Necessity of Human Volition (Part 2)

      The Necessity of Human Volition (Part 2) - Pr. Marv Wiseman

The question has been posed regarding how God, who knows everything including the future, could be responsible for having created as He did and whom He did when He knew the course they would take; of course, diametrically opposed to His own nature and character.  Why did He instill the ability to make moral choices in the angel Lucifer, who would, then, become Satan?  Continue reading “The Necessity of Human Volition (Part 2)” →

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The Biblical Validation of the Human Spirit (Part 3)

      The Biblical Validation of the Human Spirit - Part 3 - Pr. Marv Wiseman

Our Lord Jesus Christ, in telling the Samaritan Woman at the well in John, chapter 4, that God is Spirit, clearly established the concept of spirit or non-materiality.  Other passages, like James 2, inform us that the body without the spirit is dead, and Paul the apostle reminds us of our spirit component by asking, “What man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man, which is in him?”  I Corinthians 2.  Add to these compelling passages that verify the spirit part of our nature the encounter Christ had with Satan himself. Continue reading “The Biblical Validation of the Human Spirit (Part 3)” →

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The Holy Spirit and the Temptation of Christ

      The Holy Spirit and the Temptation of Christ - Pr. Marv Wiseman

All three synoptic gospels… Matthew, Mark, and Luke… record the temptation account of Jesus Christ.  Why John does not, we are not told.  Perhaps it was due to John’s emphasis upon the deity, the Godhood of Jesus, that John excludes it.  We are told that “God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.”   And while John certainly affirms the humanity of Jesus as well as His deity, the other three gospels make more of Christ’s humanity than does John.  Continue reading “The Holy Spirit and the Temptation of Christ” →

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Christ – In the Eternal State 

      Christ in the Eternal State - Pr. Marv Wiseman

It would seem only logical that with Christ ruling and reigning on the earth following His defeat of the Antichrist all would then be well with the earth.  Satan is confined to the bottomless pit, the carnage of Armageddon will be passed, and the utopia longed for by humanity since the time it was lost in Genesis 3 has finally arrived.  Poverty and disease will be no more.  Righteousness will cover the earth.  Continue reading “Christ – In the Eternal State “ →