https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/ A Christian source proclaiming all of God's Word. Articles, messages, news items and letters from an Independent Baptist, sovereign-grace, King James Bible perspective. en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem70.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem70.htm News Item Influencers, including married mothers and professionals, post suggestive teasers on mainstream apps as bait for paid sites like OnlyFans and Patreon. One markets hers as “forbidden fruit.” How their income really compares with ordinary creators, and what Scripture says about enticement, modesty, marriage, and the men who take the bait. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message86.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message86.htm Message A new message for the season: the pagan Celtic roots of Samhain, how Rome baptized it as All Hallows’ Eve, what its customs meant, how it came to America and spread around the world, why witches and Satanists claim it as their own, and seven Biblical reasons Christians should not be partakers. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/holiness-of-god-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/holiness-of-god-webmaster.htm Article “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts.” What it means that God alone is holy, that He is light with no darkness at all, of purer eyes than to behold evil, and holy in all His works; His holiness revealed in judgment and at the cross; the beauty of holiness; and a people made willing in the day of His power. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/the-holy-trinity-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/the-holy-trinity-webmaster.htm Article Now greatly expanded: one God in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. New sections on the Old Testament foreshadowing, the deity of Christ and of the Spirit, three Persons not masks, eternal relations, common objections answered, the witness of 1 John 5:7, the 1689 Baptist Confession, modern errors compared, and the Trinity in our salvation and worship. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem69.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem69.htm News Item Days after riots swept France, cost-of-living protests turned violent in Milan, Turin and Bologna. Stones were thrown at police outside Milan’s cathedral, shops were looted, and Prime Minister Meloni condemned the “gangs of thugs.” Real hardship is no excuse for lawlessness — a Christian response. Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/gender-war-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/gender-war-webmaster.htm Article Feminists say men are destroying the world; the “manosphere” of Pearl Davis, Nick Fuentes, and others says women are. Both camps tell young people not to marry. Why Christians should stay out of the middle, what the Bible says about marriage, and the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31. Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/neutral-theory-fall-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/neutral-theory-fall-webmaster.htm Article For fifty years evolution taught that most gene changes are neutral, and built the molecular clock on that idea. A 2025 study found beneficial mutations far more common than the theory allows, and concluded that natural populations are “not truly adapted.” What this reveals, and a biblical response. Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/tract-gospel-for-jewish-people.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/tract-gospel-for-jewish-people.htm Tract A personal and scriptural appeal to the Jewish reader — atonement by blood (Leviticus 17:11), the Messiah who was to come before the second temple fell (Daniel 9:26), the suffering Servant of Isaiah 53, the deity of the Messiah, and the new covenant of Jeremiah 31. Free to download and share. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/gift-of-tongues-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/gift-of-tongues-webmaster.htm Article At Pentecost the apostles spoke real languages they had never learned. What the gift was for, why modern tongues do not match it, and why it ceased when “that which is perfect” — the completed Word of God — had come. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem68.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem68.htm News Item Jim Bakker, founder of The PTL Club, died October 5, 2026, at 86. His rise and fall, his Pentecostal teaching that speaking in tongues is the Holy Spirit’s sign on the saved, and his openness to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, embraced by four popes. The contradiction he never answered: Pentecostalism makes salvation hang on the sinner’s own repentance and decision, Rome on baptism, sacraments, and works — yet both speak the same tongues. Why the Spirit of truth does not seal another gospel (John 16:13; Galatians 1:8), why biblical tongues were real, unlearned languages understood by every nation present (Acts 2:6–11), why the Spirit regenerates first and gives repentance and faith (John 1:13; Ephesians 2:1, 8; Acts 11:18), and the true gospel of Christ alone. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem66.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem66.htm News Item Updated October 11: three weeks in, France’s Justice Ministry reports 6,877 arrests (86% minors), the Elysée puts the damage at €30 million, and up to 450,000 marched on October 6. New section on the debate over whether the riots are about schools or about mass migration and Islam — President Trump’s claim, The Rubin Report’s commentary and a libertarian’s apology for open borders, the Saint-Denis mayor who called violence “legitimate” — weighed against what the record can prove, with Scripture on nations and borders (Acts 17:26), love for the stranger (Leviticus 19:34), and the God-given duty of rulers to restrain violence (Romans 13:4). Plus the original report on the real grievances, the history of Saint-Denis, and a generation raised without the fear of God. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem67.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem67.htm News Item Who the Houthis of Yemen are and what they stand for: an Iran-backed Zaydi Shia militia ruling Sanaa since 2014, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2025, whose slogan reads “death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews.” How they have all but emptied Yemen of its ancient Jewish community and jail Christian converts (Yemen ranks #3 on Open Doors’ 2026 list). The latest: their Red Sea blockade, seizure of the coast near Bab el-Mandeb, strikes on Saudi oil and airports, and the government offensive launched October 4, 2026 — with a Christian response from Matthew 24, 1 John 2:22–23, John 16:2, and Hebrews 13:3, and a call to pray for Yemen’s secret believers and for the Houthis themselves. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem65.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem65.htm News Item After Sarah Mullally became the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury, the conservative Gafcon bloc declared “we are the Anglican Communion,” and in March 2026, 347 bishops meeting in Abuja committed to disengage from Canterbury. What the Bible requires of a minister (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1), how Anglican teaching departs from Scripture — the Prayer Book’s claim that baptized infants are “regenerate,” its priesthood and absolution, the monarch as head of the church — infant baptism as salvation by a work, Anglicanism as a daughter of the “Mother of Harlots” (Revelation 17:5), the call to “come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4), salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone, and a call for Christians to pray for Anglicans everywhere. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/justification-imputed-righteousness-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/justification-imputed-righteousness-webmaster.htm Article Now greatly expanded: how a holy God justifies the ungodly by charging the believer’s sin to Christ and crediting Christ’s perfect righteousness to him. New sections on the two Adams (Romans 5:19), Christ’s obedience in life as well as death, “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:6), Old Testament pictures of imputation (the coats of skins, Joshua the high priest, the wedding garment), justification within God’s sovereign purpose, Paul and James reconciled, the Council of Trent’s anathemas and the 1999 Joint Declaration, the New Perspective on Paul, and common objections answered. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem64.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem64.htm News Item A four-day papal visit to France, September 25-28, 2026 -- a vigil before the relic of the Holy Tunic, a meeting with President Macron and a UNESCO address, an outdoor Mass on the Place de la Concorde drawing some 600,000 registered attendees, and a visit to Lourdes to meet with survivors of clergy abuse -- in a nation where only about half its people now identify as Catholic. What draws hundreds of thousands to a public Mass, what the Mass actually claims to accomplish, and a direct, Scripture-based comparison of the Roman Mass with the Lord's Supper of the Bible (John 19:30; Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:26; Hebrews 7:27, 9:12, 10:10, 10:18). Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message85.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message85.htm Message Austin Huggins begins a two-part introduction to 1 Peter, on 1:1-2. Why Peter anchors suffering saints in their identity as God's elect exiles before he ever addresses their persecution, the lesson of "Master, carest thou not that we perish?" and what it means to stand secure in sovereign grace amid the storm. Includes the original sermon audio. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message84.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message84.htm Message L.R. Shelton, Jr., sixth in a series on the Beatitudes, on Matthew 5:8. The two Greek words behind the English word "pure" -- one meaning holy, spoken of God's own nature, the other meaning cleansed, spoken of the believer's heart -- and why only a new heart given by God, never self-reform, can bring a man to see the Lord. Includes the original sermon audio. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem63.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem63.htm News Item Pope Leo XIV concluded a May-August 2026 catechesis series on Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II's constitution on the liturgy, aimed at reminding clergy and laity alike to respect liturgical boundaries. This June, as the Church approached Corpus Christi, the sessions focused on how the physical actions of the Mass -- kneeling, the sign of peace, being sprinkled with holy water -- are meant to shape the worshipper's inner spiritual life, days before Leo himself knelt before the Host at the close of Rome's Corpus Christi Eucharistic procession. A comparison of the Mass with the actual Lord's Supper of Scripture (John 19:30; Hebrews 7:27, 9:12, 10:18), and a direct, Scripture-based answer to whether kneeling before the Host is something a Christian should do. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message83.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message83.htm Message Shaun Willcock concludes his three-part study of Revelation 17: why the harlot is arrayed in purple and scarlet (the ceremonial colors of the popes and cardinals) against the true Church's fine linen of imputed righteousness, her vast accumulated wealth, her golden cup "full of abominations," the meaning of the name "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots" (including admissions from Catholic authors Sylvester Hunter and Cardinal Bellarmine identifying Rome as this Babylon), and a closing, practical section on what it means to "come out of her." Includes the original two-part sermon audio, playable as one continuous track. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/molecular-machines-webmaster.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/molecular-machines-webmaster.htm Article How do you know a car in an empty field was engineered rather than assembled by chance? The same tests apply to what's running inside every one of your cells right now: a rotary turbine (ATP synthase) manufacturing your body's energy currency at 6,000+ RPM, a bacterial motor spinning faster than a Formula One engine, molecular delivery trucks (kinesin) walking cargo along protein highways, a data library denser than any human archive packed into your DNA, and a built-in proofreading system correcting copying errors down to one in ten billion. Includes a candid admission from a former president of the National Academy of Sciences that the cell is best described as a factory full of machines, and what Romans 1:20 says this evidence has always pointed to. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message82.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message82.htm Message Shaun Willcock continues his study of Revelation 17: what it means that the nations are "made drunk with the wine of her fornication" (both Rome's alliance with worldly power and her idolatry of Mary, the wafer, and the saints), why the true Church sits on Mount Zion while the harlot sits in a wilderness of counterfeit sacraments that never satisfy, and the identity of the woman and the scarlet beast -- Rome's religious and political power, her seven mountains, and the ten kingdoms of the divided Roman Empire. Includes the original two-part sermon audio, playable as one continuous track. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem62.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/newsitem62.htm News Item On September 1, 2026, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court unanimously affirmed a father's sole authority over his daughter's involvement with a specific church, after the trial court found the child suffered panic attacks tied to its teaching on Hell and the Rapture, repeated questions about her father's salvation, and a litigation-timed church prayer naming the family nearly thirty times. The evidence relied on, the court's holding that strict scrutiny does not apply to religious custody disputes between parents, related Maine and out-of-state cases, prior U.S. Supreme Court parental-rights rulings from Meyer v. Nebraska through Mahmoud v. Taylor, what the ruling does and doesn't authorize a father to do, and what Scripture says about a father's authority and a child's duty to honor both parents. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message81.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message81.htm Message A sermon by Shaun Willcock on Revelation 17:1-6, recorded May 2000: the great whore identified not as a literal woman but a counterfeit church, set against the true Church as Christ's chaste virgin bride; Rome's many gods -- the wafer, the goddess Mary, the saints; why she "sits upon many waters" (peoples, multitudes, nations, tongues); and her fornication with the kings of the earth from Constantine to the present day. Includes the original two-part sermon audio, playable as one continuous track. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message80.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message80.htm Message A sermon by Shaun Willcock on Matthew 6:5-6 and Mark 1:35: why private prayer is a daily duty and privilege just as important as congregational prayer, why even the Lord Jesus withdrew alone before daybreak to pray, the discipline it demands and the "no time" excuse Scripture leaves no room for, and how to spend that time in both prayer and systematic study of God's Word. Includes the original sermon audio. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message79.htm https://www.thebibleistheotherside.org/message79.htm Message A 1992 sermon by Shaun Willcock on Romans 10:13-17: why election is the very ground for evangelism rather than an argument against it, three marks of a false gospel to avoid ("God loves you," "Christ died for you," and quick salvation formulas like the ABC method), and what laying a true foundation of gospel truth actually requires -- drawn from Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, the Philippian jailer, and Paul's pattern of reasoning, disputing, and persuading. Includes the original sermon audio. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000