Dan Greenfield

Category: God

  • Instructions to the Jury

    For this month’s series on The Bible and Evolution, I’ve been reading the complete stenographic report of the famous trial held July 10 to 21 1925, the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. It’s been a fascinating read—well, to me anyway! On the first day’s proceedings, Judge John T.…

  • God’s Holiness and Self-Righteousness

    If any man think well of himself, he has never met God. Nothing will demolish self-righteousness like one real sight of God. –R. A. Torrey, What the Bible Teaches, p. 41

  • Sin in the Light of God’s Holiness

    “All approach to God is on the ground of shed blood. The atonement has its deepest demand in the holiness of God. Any doctrine of the atonement that sees its need only in the necessity that man be influenced by a mighty motive, or in the necessities of governmental expediency,…

  • Pi Day

    Just when I thought there was a day for everything, via Susan Polger’s Chess and Information blog I learned that today is…Pi day. Evidently the instigators of this use this day (March 14, or 3.14) as an opportunity to celebrate math in schools, and perhaps other reasons as well! The…

  • The Necessity of Gospel Preaching

    Yesterday I focused on God’s sovereignty in salvation as evidenced by election (1 Thess 1:4). Listen to Paul’s words from the next chapter: They [the Jews mentioned in vv. 14-15a] are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they…

  • The Holiness of God

    I’ve either listened to or participated in a few discussions revolving around whether holiness is God’s fundamental, governing moral attribute. Some who do not agree with this position believe that God’s holiness is not a specific attribute but rather is his over-arching characteristic, the sum totality of all that he…

  • God’s Infinity and My Praying

    During tomorrow night’s Bible study on prayer I’ll be walking through the doctrine of God and drawing some applications for prayer. When I considered God’s attribute of infinity – that he is not limited by time or space – I was struck by the implications of this for prayer. I…

  • Ephesians 1

    Thoughts from reading Ephesians 1 this morning: In love He predestined us… (1:5) I have struggled to understand for some years how God’s attributes of grace and mercy could legitimately be considered attributes. The reason for this revolved around my understanding of the time in which these occurred. If grace…