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The belief that salvation cannot be lost is known as "eternal security" and "once saved always saved". However, whilst we are saved by believing in Jesus (John 3:16), in order to keep our salvation, we must keep on believing in Jesus. This is evident from the use of the words "if", “firm to the end” and "continue" in the following verses (I have capitalised to draw attention to them):

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1 Timothy 2:12-15 and Women in Ministry

4/12/2017

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12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control. (1 Timothy 2:12-15 NKJV)

Is Paul banning women from ministry in this verse? No, he is not. As I will explain below, he was simply responding to a false teaching that claimed Eve was created before Adam. It appears that this false teaching made at least some of the women feel that they could domineer the men, and it is this that Paul is correcting.

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The Historic Reliability of the New Testament

4/12/2017

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The Last Templar is a novel written by Raymond Khoury. He is also the screenwriter of the BBC’s Spooks and the Emmy Award winning drama Waking the Dead.

Through The Last Templar Khoury puts forward the theory that the story of Jesus Christ as we know it is actually a myth. It is also claimed that Jesus Himself wrote a gospel, in which He was not the Son of God. Furthermore, The Last Templar claims that certain people in the Roman Catholic Church know about this ‘gospel’.

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