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A while back I heard about a video posted on Youtube that made the connection to Luke 10:18 to demonstrate that President Barack Obama is the antichrist. So I checked out the video and did not know whether to laugh at what could be ranked as a joke for being the worst cast of biblical interpretation ever, or cry at the fact that many people viewing the video would actually think it true. The idea presented in the video is that the Luke 10:18 phrase “heaven like lightning” in Hebrew should be translated baraq o bam-maw and serves as a cipher for the name of Satan’s antichrist is unfounded. Of course getting from point A to point B requires numerous leaps in logic that stretch credulity beyond the breaking point. First, those who read Luke 10:18 in context can readily see that Jesus reference to Satan’s fall from heaven like lightening referred to something that had already happened when the Lord spoke those words, namely the success of the preaching of the Gospel by the seventy evangel...

Recently someone sent me a link to a blog, wherein the blogger had interviewed various Christian leaders on the subject of approaching Mormons. He found the common denominator between each interviewee was the fact they identified their activity as “dialogue.” He then asserted: The great thing about the term “dialogue” is that it implies a two-way interaction. It means that both sides will have an opportunity to communicate their views, and both sides will be expected to listen to each other. The term “evangelism” suggests that one party has the knowledge and will be dispensing it to the other side, who is merely a passive recipient. In dialogue the two parties approach each other as equals, and both have an opportunity to be active participants ( http://tinyurl.com/nou49f ). To a certain extent, I can understand the guy’s diplomacy. Angry rants and half-cocked character attacks levied against a person’s own beliefs can certainly make a mess of things. For a Christian, it can be a way ...