Most all Calvary Chapels ( www.calvarychapel.com ) teach through the Scriptures, through the entire Bible, at one service or another, verse by verse, book by book.
We are not afraid to face what may appear to be discrepencies. It may be hard to believe but there are many Christian who do care to learn the truth whatever truth may prove to be. Most mainstream Christian are not interested in protecting God's Word from scrutinity because they have already scrutinized it themselves.
We are not all ignorant followers, but some of us are educated in theology, Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Archeology, History and World Religions.
Last semester I took several Biblical classes and we covered each book studied with great depth. We had to research each book's possible author, what most theologians have considered for the last 2000 years about the book, the culture and the meaning of words and if the meaning has changed.
When we studied the minor prophets, 12 alltogether we dealt with some very intense issues. All I can say is, sometimes people need to die. It is so distressing to hear of the crimes against the innocent in the world everyday. Just this week in China 50,000 dogs, peoples pets were massacred in several Chinese towns because three cases of rabies were found.
The pictures of thousands of dogs being beaten to death, taken from their owners arms is just sick.There is a frightening lack of compassion in the evil hearts of some. Children, the elderly, and millions of animals are tortured and suffering everyday someplace in the world. I can't even begin to imagine if it was worse than it is today, what choice did God have? He is damned if He does and damned if He don't.
He may not have to take action again to end this, we are doing a great job of destroying ourselves and the entire planet. The next time God intervenes it may be to be to save us from ourselves. Of course He'll take some flak for that too I'm sure.
