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August, 2011 Regeneration and Indwelling in the Old Testament   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]
                     A discussion of where covenantalists go wrong in their understanding 
                     of salvation experience in the OT. (Updated from a previous essay.)

June, 2011 What the Bible Says About Angels   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]
June, 2011 The New Pretribulationism   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]
June, 2011 Why Matthew 24:36-25:30 Describes the Rapture Rather Than the Second Coming   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]

April, 2011 Making Sense of What's Happening in The Middle East  -Sam A. Smith 

Recent Previous Essays  (also see the Archives) 

John Calvin and a Lesson From Sudoku   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]

Daniel 9:24-27: The Prophecy of Daniel's 70 Weeks   -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]

A discussion of the interpretation and chronology of Daniel's 70 weeks; including a calculation of the first 69 weeks of Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy.

Four Part Series on the Problems of Pretribulationism  -Sam A. Smith
  Part 1:  Is the Doctrine of Imminency Capable of Proving Pretribulationism?   [PDF]
  Part 2:  Does Pretribulationism's Wrath Argument Prove Pretribulationism?   [PDF]
  Part 3:  How Pretribulationism Has Almost Destroyed the Doctrine of Imminency [PDF]
  Part 4:  Some Final Thoughts on Rapture Theories [PDF]

What the Bible ACTUALLY Says About the Origin of the Universe -Sam A. Smith [PDF]
Confused about Genesis and science? The author explains the history of creation theories, both biblical and scientific, and brings order to the chaos! (An updated version of the previously published paper, "An Examination of Biblical Creation Theories").

What the Bible ACTUALLY Says About the Future -Sam A. Smith  [PDF]
An explanation of why the church has suppressed premillennialism for almost nineteen hundred years, the factors that led the church to embrace “realized eschatology” (amillennialism), and what the Bible actually says about the future.

Were the "Lost Gospels" Really Lost? -Sam A. Smith   [PDF]
New books like The Di Vinci Code have rekindled interest in early Gnostic literature, such as "The Gospel of Thomas" and "The Gospel of Judas." What is Gnosticism, and why were these books rejected by the early church? The more you know about Gnosticism and its origin, the more you will realize it's only paganism in a thin garb of Christianity.

Three Myths About Eternal Rewards -Sam A. Smith [PDF]

A Four Part Series on The Relationship Between Faith and Law -Sam A. Smith
   Part 1: The Purpose of the Law  [PDF version]
   Part 2: The Superiority of Faith to Law as Seen in Hebrews 7-9   [PDF]
   Part 3: The Superiority of Faith to Law as Seen in Galatians 2:11-5:26   [PDF]
   Part 4: The Superiority of Faith to Law as Seen in Romans 3:21-10:15   [PDF]

How the Amillennial Conception of the Kingdom is Developed   [PDF]
Understanding the Biblical Doctrine of Sanctification   [PDF]
Hosea: The Unfailing Redemptive Love of God

Important Truths About the Bible [A Two Part Series]
Part 1: How We Know the Bible Is the Word of God
Part 2: How and Where Did We Get Our Bible?


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