Spirit of Truth/The Bible on Trial

 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." John 15:7. If you are a Christian, or even a bondservant of Jesus, there that times when you pray and ask God for things. Things like protection for you kids, or a career change, or healing for a friend, or even money. In the words of Jesus seen above there is a condition to receiving those things...

Most people take a casual and even cavalier approach to the searching for and finding truth because of the things they have been taught about truth from their earliest childhood; things such as, there is no such thing a a perfect truth, that no one can actually know truth, that 'my truth is just as good a your truth', that we are all going to the same place, we are just taking different paths. The...

"Here be Dragons" is a phrase that in ancient times and on ancient maps means 'dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a midieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps' (Wikipedia). In Bible prophecy a 'red dragon' is used as a metaphor for the Devil, or Satan, who is not a metaphor, but a real being who...

Have you ever been shooting with a pistol? It can be loads of fun when done using range safety standards that protect everyone from accidental discharge and errant targeting. You must know the safety rules AND PRACTICE THEM in order to avoid potentially deadly problems. The reason for practicing with your firearm is to be able at a moments notice to tranfer your mental image of a 'target' to a 'th...

Many years ago the founder of the Bible On Trial, Rich Humpal, named himself 'Rock Roller' on several internet forums. Rich would take great glee in pointing out fallacious and sloppy thinking in people of 'faith'. He was an investigating lawyer that said of himself that he would look under every rock to find the truth. We would have discussions from time to time on his front porch over coffee, th...

If God exists then Truth is singular and absolute! If it isn't then God cannot exist, because Elohim would not be "The Way, the Truth, and the Life." God is therefore ALL truth, and TRUTH is therefore God. Jesus said that He came to earth to "testify to the truth", and that "everyone that is OF the truth hears HIS voice". If you listen to ANY other voice other that the voice of the Father and the...

We will continue our study into the prophecies conncerning the Faithful and Wise Bondservant and his fellow servants, and how this impact upcoming events in the Kingdom of the Heavens, and in the world.

Do you know of anyone that has told you that their only desire in this life is to believe lies as though they were truth? No? Me either! So why is it that in practice believing lies as though they were truth is an endemic condition of humanity across all walks of life, in all cultures and throughout all civilizations? Do you know of ANYONE that has NOT believed a lie and called it the truth? Have...

What do you believe that is 'immoderate"? I consistently hear people speak of 'moderation' in a particular religion or philosophy, and I wonder how this idea of 'moderation in all things' affects their concept of TRUTH. Is their such a thing as a 'moderate' religion, and if so, how does it manifest itself in the practitioner? Does moderation cross cultural and spiritual lines, or is moderation "in...

What is your 'standard for spiritual Truth'? Most poeple will say that spiritual 'truth' is as individual as DNA, no two 'truths' are the same. Some will say that this 'truth' is as individual and intimate as underware, and that once you put it on you forget about it, until it bunches up and needs adjusting. But if spiritual truth is as described here then there is simply NO POSSIBILITY for anyone...

Fake News! This is the most iconic phrase in America today. EVERYONE uses it to 'prove' what the 'other guy' is saying is a lie, or at least misleading. This phrase also informs on the sourse of the 'news', from major news sourses such as the New York Times and Washington Post, to second tier outlets such as Brietbart and The Guardian. They are all accused of diseminating 'fake news', and they all...

Today on our program we will take a few minutes to celebrate the birthday of our friend and the founder of Spirit of Truth Ministry, Rick Sterling. Rick has a unique perspective on truth that has been instrumental in bringing about this now world wide ministry, that demonstrates that the words of Jesus that He gave to his own eyewitness discipels is what confirms the Truth that God the Father need...

One of my wifes favorite meme's is, "Dear Lord, give me patience; and I want it RIGHT NOW!" Now while this is funny on the surface, there is a great deal of truth in it, because many people in todays hectic, electronic filled, 'must have right now' and fast paced world want what ever it is they want right at the moment they want it. They feel that they might miss a 'golden opportunity' to post som...

Many Christians believe that the Spiritual power of the Holy Spirit is manifest by physical means, and this was the purpose of the day of Pentecost, that has just been celebrated within the liturgical church. Yet Jesus in John 3 told Nicodemus, ""That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6). In saying this Jesus separates the effects of the s...

To whom is the Bible On Trial program directed, and for whom will it have the most meaning? It is NOT for people that already feel that they know everything that they need to know about salvation and eternal life. These people are like the Leodiceans in that they say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor an...

It is said that no one knows the future. That is true from a human perspective. Yet there is prophecy from any number of sources that does tell us the future. Satan does know somewhat of the future, and that which he does not know he often makes up to 'seem' as if he knows the future. There ARE being in the spiritual world that DO know the future, and those beings are Elohim (Three as ONE). And Th...

A wedding is being prepared, and everything is ready, including the Groom. Everything is ready except for one minor thing, the bride is not ready; and those that were assigned to get the bride ready are themselves (right now) sound asleep. The bridesmaids need to be awakened, so they can dress the bride in 'fine linen clean and bright', yet this won't happen until the Best Man and the groomsmen wa...

Joy is not something that is promised by God for those that obey His Commandments. In fact, when you decide to 'do right', AKA, be holy, Satan will come down on you like a ton of bricks, trying to get you to go back on your 'process of Sanctification'. But for bondservants, this is the expected result of the commitment to righteousness. It is by sticking with it, and deciding day by day to 'do rig...

In the movie The Kingdom of Heaven the a young blacksmith is recruited by his liege lord to join a crusade in the Holy Land to Jerusalem. Through many twists and turns this young man (Orlando Bloom) is knighted and adopted by this dying Lord as his son; and he tells the young man to tell the royalty in Jerusalem that he is a natural born son. In Jerusalem, one of the first people that takes an int...

In today's religious world it is almost as if we are a contestant in a game show (like the old  show 'Truth or Consequence'), where it is compleley impossibe to 'get the right answer' and win the prize (eternal life), because the questions are rigged in favor of the 'lies of the Devil'. Unless a person first understands that the 'game is rigged' they can never hope to understand the truth; and wil...

Join Spirit of Truth Ministry for an exciting and challenging search for truth in the Bible, as we use the words of Jesus as the standard by which we judge ALL truth. Not everything in the New Testament qualifies as 'God's Truth', because not all writers in the New Testament were eyewitnesses to the ministry of Jesus while He was here on earth. We will separate fact from fiction as we search for t...

Self honesty is not as easy to achieve as some would have you believe. In fact, for ALL of us (at least at the start, it is IMPOSSIBLE. Jesus said that Satan has deceived the whole world. This means that eveyone in the entire world for all of recorded history has been (in one way or another) deceived. Jesus told his own disciples to, "See to it that no one deceives you". And if it were impossible...

When you cook something that you have never cooked before it is prudent to use a recipe. The recipe tells you the ingredients, the amounts, and the procedures with which to combine these ingredients to achieve the best results. But as sometimes happens, you do all these things, and follow the directions precisely, and the finished dish ends up either being tasteless, inedible, or ruined. What happ...

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Christians are constantly taught from the pulpit that 'belief is the key to the Kingdom'. They are also taught that 'faith confirms their belief'. These are EASY beliefs that require no reasoning to acquire, and there is no need to put those beliefs into practice. In fact, Christians are taught that DOING anything that will try to affect your salvation will only get in the way of the 'free gift' o...