Author: Corey J. Mahler, Esq., J.D., LL.M.

Pastors often pass over the demoniacs from the tombs too quickly: Christ defeats a legion by Himself, plunders Satan’s kingdom, and sends out the freed captives as apostles to those living under Satan’s rule.

The Jews killed Christ.

Matthew 27:12 condemns all who say it was not the Jews but the Romans who killed Jesus.

In fairness, there is a ‘rapture’ of sorts — for the wicked, as angels gather them to toss them into Hell.

God, in His perfect knowledge and wisdom, refuted ‘Rapture’ ‘theology’ before that pernicious heresy ever arose; Matthew 13:39b–42 is clear about who will be ‘taken’.

I have come to loathe the word ‘Gentile’.

The problem for the men in Matthew 7:21–23 is that they are saying ‘we did’ instead of ‘You promised’; the issue is lack of faith.

In Matthew 7:21–23, Christ is condemning works righteousness (‘Lord, did we not…’), and those who use these verses to condemn others based on works have totally missed the point.

We probably should have translated instead of transliterated baptizo.

Insofar as the (young) children of believers are, themselves, believers, Lutherans are, in fact, practicing ‘credo’ Baptism when baptizing infants — just not in the heterodox sense employed by Baptists.