Trinity Journal

DO YOU REALLY FEAR THE LORD?

An Editorial By Richard Gagnon

Many of you have already heard the expression “The fear of the Lord”. In fact, this expression is so used in the Bible that most of the time it is taken out of its proper context. Doing so, it may imply a wrong definition of what it really means. Let us look at some of them used in the Bible.

We will look at 3 instances. In them, the main purpose is to understand not only what it really means, but to see if it changes anything in us once we understand what it could mean.

Of all the expressions commonly used in the Bible, I do think that the “fear of the Lord” is one of the most misunderstood. Let us see how and why together.

Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Richard Gagnon
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JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS

JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS

(By William J. Peters, Ph.D. (c), M.A.C.E., B.A.)

There are 273 references to angels in the Bible. What does the Bible say about angels? First of all, the term “angel” is derived from the Greek word angelos, which means: “messenger.” Angelos and the Hebrew equivalent, malak (which also means “messenger”), are the two most common terms used to describe this class of beings (Richards).
In general, in texts where an angel appears, the task is to convey the message or do something on behalf of God. Since the focus of the text is on the message, the messenger is rarely described in detail. Thus, the divine emissary may or may not be some sort of supernatural being.

Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Richard Gagnon
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Is God Vain?

Is God Vain? (by Gregory Koukl)

Have you ever been asked “Isn’t it arrogant of God to demand that we praise Him?” Find out what Greg has to say about God’s worthiness, and our own vanity.

I was confronted about a week and a half ago at a conference up at Mount Herman in Northern California with a very interesting question. It’s a question you might be confronted with as well. The question was simply, Isn’t God vain in wanting us to praise Him? And if vanity is bad for us, then it’s bad for God. This young man didn’t know how to respond. So he asked me about it. I’ll give you my response.

Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Richard Gagnon
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The Strength of God & the Problem of Evil

The Strength of God & the Problem of Evil (by Greg Koukl)

Koukl I was thinking about this issue of the problem of evil. I’ve read a number of books on it. I’ve done a whole teaching on suffering, evil and the goodness of God. I wrote an article called Sophie’s Dilemma which we’ll have in our journal coming out in July called Clear Thinking . We had Doug Geivett on four weeks ago, who has written a whole book on the problem of evil and we talked about the ins and outs of the issue.