Barbs With A Point – Page 2 – Unmasking Sophistry

Contend Earnestly for the Faith

By Dylan Stewart | Alabama, USA Jude 3 reads, ” Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” The Greek word used here translated as “contend” means

Tongues – A Human Language Or Just Gibberish?

By Patrick Donahue | Alabama, USA Were the tongues in the Bible just gibberish like what we see in so called “Pentecostal” churches today? I’ve been to a number of services where people were claiming to speak in tongues, but it just sounded like a bunch of gibberish to me. Is that what we see

Pouring Water On A Duck’s Back

By Osamagbe Lesley Egharevba | Lagos, Nigeria To “pour water on a duck’s back” is an expression that is usually used when a person’s action is seen as having no effect. The water droplets literally roll off of duck’s back when you pour water on it. Thus, one is seen as pouring water on a

Jacob Creath, Jr.: Willing to Be Ruined

By Andy Sochor | Kentucky, USA Jacob Creath, Jr. (1799-1886) was one of many preachers in the nineteenth century who began to question the commonly held doctrines among the denominations of which they were a part. Creath had been associated with the Baptists. In 1826, he received a letter of commendation from the Baptist Church

Does the Bible Promise Prosperity to Believers?

By Emmanuel Oluwatoba | Niger, Nigeria Introduction The prosperity gospel states that God’s plan is always for us to be wealthy and that if one has enough “faith”, then they will experience great material blessings. If God intended for believers to be prosperous, why do we read of so much affliction, persecution, scorn, and trials

God Holds Your Breath

By Henry Stevenson III | Texas, USA “But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass,