God & Christ
Who God is and who Christ is are settled by what the text says, not by what tradition has handed down. These articles take up the person of Christ, His deity and His manhood, the Son of God, and the sovereignty and purpose of God, reading each from the King James text.
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Made of No Reputation: What Philippians 2:7 Says and What It Does Not
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What did Christ do when He made himself of no reputation? The verse names one act, and the King James defines its words. This study shows what that act was, what belongs to His manhood, how Mark 13:32 reads, and what mind Paul tells the believer to have.
Do You Believe Jesus Is the Son of God? What a Yes Does Not Tell You
Posted by Edward Cross on
A preacher told of a street evangelist who asked drivers at a red light whether they believed Jesus is the Son of God, and took a yes for a convert. The question is Scripture and the answer is true. This study sets out what the kingdom was told to believe, what Paul says to believe, and what a yes to that one question does not show.
The Plan No Verse Mentions — God Has Not Scripted Every Detail of Your Life
Posted by Edward Cross on
Believers are taught that God has authored a detailed script for each life and that one wrong turn puts a man outside His will. No verse says it. This study asks for the verse, takes up every passage offered in its place, and shows that the teaching's two halves cannot both be true at once.
Why Did God Create Man, Knowing He Would Sin — and Would It Have Been Better Not to Create at All?
Posted by Edward Cross on
Why would God create man, knowing he would fall — and would it not have been kinder never to create at all? Answered on the only ground where it can be answered, the revelation given to Paul: God made the world to display the exceeding riches of His grace, and grace must have something to redeem.
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Made of No Reputation: What Philippians 2:7 Says and What It Does Not
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 9, 2026
What did Christ do when He made himself of no reputation? The verse names one act, and the King James defines its words. This study shows what that act was, what belongs to His manhood, how Mark 13:32 reads, and what mind Paul tells the believer to have.
Do You Believe Jesus Is the Son of God? What a Yes Does Not Tell You
Posted by Edward R. Cross on October 8, 2026
A preacher told of a street evangelist who asked drivers at a red light whether they believed Jesus is the Son of God, and took a yes for a convert. The question is Scripture and the answer is true. This study sets out what the kingdom was told to believe, what Paul says to believe, and what a yes to that one question does not show.
The Plan No Verse Mentions — God Has Not Scripted Every Detail of Your Life
Posted by Edward R. Cross on September 14, 2026
Believers are taught that God has authored a detailed script for each life and that one wrong turn puts a man outside His will. No verse says it. This study asks for the verse, takes up every passage offered in its place, and shows that the teaching's two halves cannot both be true at once.
Why Did God Create Man, Knowing He Would Sin — and Would It Have Been Better Not to Create at All?
Posted by Edward R. Cross on June 23, 2026
Why would God create man, knowing he would fall — and would it not have been kinder never to create at all? Answered on the only ground where it can be answered, the revelation given to Paul: God made the world to display the exceeding riches of His grace, and grace must have something to redeem.
