The website you are on is a library of books and other resources. It may be unusual way to present a library, but I hope you can get used to it, and even come to appreciate the format. Here’s a rundown of the books, beginning with the shortest and most important one.
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You should be able to see this book’s title at the top of every page you visit on this site. (Everything else on this site could be considered its appendix). Of all the books I have written, this is the shortest and yet it’s the most important to me. It’s the last book I ever expect to write. If you don’t read any other book I write, please read this one. And if you do want to read the others, please read this one first because it gives the context for everything else I have written.
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The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact
Description: Contrary to many opinions, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is not something future and physical – rather it is something past and spiritual. Extensive explanation of the relevant Bible passages will demonstrate that the Second Coming of Christ occurred just when Jesus and His apostles said it would – in the 1st Century A.D. Jesus Christ is God, and the Second Coming is an outworking of that reality.
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The Biblical Case for Everyone Going to Heaven
Description: Most people think that the Bible teaches that we go to either heaven or hell when we die. However, this is because most people are insufficiently familiar with the Bible’s contents and have merely accepted someone else’s interpretation. This book demonstrates that the Bible actually teaches something different from the traditional heaven-or-hell scenario.
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The Implications of Everyone Going to Heaven
Description: This book is a sequel to The Biblical Case for Everyone Going to Heaven. It explores the implications of everyone going to heaven, and how that truth integrates with other biblical truths. All of the author’s work is based on the conviction that Jesus is Lord and that the Bible is the word of God.
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Apostolic Apologetics:
An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ
Description: This book is written for the person who wants a faith in Christ he can defend – not just to others, but to himself in the sight of God. Christian apologetics is a burgeoning field – so much so that it can be overwhelming to survey, much less to master. Apostolic apologetics, a simple and straightforward alternative, is a way to establish and defend your faith not on the testimony of modern experts – be they philosophers, scientists, or even biblical scholars – but rather on the testimony of the apostles themselves.
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The New Testament From a Distance
Description: Although addressed to unbelievers as an invitation to approach the New Testament as reliable ancient literature rather than as a church textbook, this book will also help believers who struggle with doubts, whether from without or within, about the reliability of the texts or the authors of the New Testament. The book lays out the case that the only reasonable way to read the New Testament is by accepting that its 27 individual texts are what was originally written and that their authors are the ones claimed in the respective titles – including Hebrews.
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Description: This book is for those who want to understand marriage as God has designed it –which is to say family as God designed it. Modern American culture has lost sight of true marriage and thus no longer supports it, even turning hostile to it. Followers of Christ must show the way to repentance by restoring honor to marriage – fulfilling its responsibilities, enjoying its benefits, and defending its unique character and central importance to human well-being.
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The Ten Commandments According to Jesus
Description: This book shows how Jesus’ commandments fit with Moses’ commandments – specifically, the Ten Commandments. It also shows how Jesus gave new and deeper meaning to the Ten Commandments by applying them not just to our outward behavior but also to our inward thoughts, intentions, and motivations. In effect, this book explains how the Law of Moses became the Law of Christ.
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A One-Year Daily Devotional to Jesus Christ
Description: This book contains 366 one-page devotionals. Therefore, it supplies the raw material for a full year – even a leap year – of daily devotionals, which can be used by an individual, a family, or a broader group.
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300 Reasons to Worship Christ and Not a Trinity
Description: This book consists of 300 readings compiled from blog posts I wrote over a 10-15 year period, all about the conflict between the Bible’s teaching about Christ and the man-made doctrine of the Trinity. More than just a rejection of the Trinity, the book is an argument for seeing Jesus as God fully entering the world as one of us – the most amazing act of love and humility that our Creator could ever undertake. The book’s purpose is to show not just that the Trinity is an unbiblical idea, but that it distracts believers from seeing the full glory of God in Christ.
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An Audio Bible Reading Companion
Description: This book is an appendix to The Duty of a Man. It is audio-only. It covers all 1,189 chapters of the Bible – Old and New Testaments. I read through the Bible and comment as I go.
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Description: This book is an appendix of The Duty of a Man. It is a set of study aids for the Bible, including a commentary on the whole Bible. The BSN is over 40 times as long as The Duty of a Man, and is intended to be accessed selectively like a dictionary or encyclopedia – not read straight through like a book. The commentary is the largest part and is like the Audio Bible Reading Companion in that it covers every chapter of the Bible, but with the advantage that it allows look-ups of individual verses in a chapter which audio files cannot. This is why I call it a “Written Bible Reading Companion.” Other components of the BSN include a glossary, history index, and red-letter concordance. The BSN equips a man to read the Bible for himself and to teach it to his family.
What are your thoughts about what will happen to this earth in time? Do we continue to reproduce on earth forever and ever fighting this spiritual battle between good and evil? In your book “The Implications of Everyone Going to Heaven” you say “The very purpose of human beings is to teach angels what true goodness is”. Are you meaning the angels that fell? Can these angels (Satan and/or his angels) be taught and redeemed? You also say “We begin by realizing that creation is a war between good and evil, and that God has plans for us to win it” Does this war eventually end?
In its most important sense, the war between good and evil was won when Jesus rose from the dead. As there were lots of battles after D-Day, it was only a matter of time before Germany surrendered. Jesus’ resurrection was truly the pivotal moment in all of history.
All angels learn from what they observe happening on earth (1 Cor 4:9; 1 Pet 1:12; Job 1-2) – including, most notably, Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.
As to when the battles all cease and if Satan and/or his angels can be redeemed, I do not, at least at this time, have enough clarity to say. One thing I can say is that I do not foresee the earth ending for a long, long time. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about America. We’ve invited wrath and our ride has only begun to get bumpy.
The next chapter or two that I add to the book will address some of these things further.
Here’s that next chapter: “From the Second Coming until Now…and Beyond.”
Hey Mr. Gantt, I remember a book, “Whatever became of Jesus Christ?” Is that still available?
It’s the book now titled The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact – which I think is more descriptive of the book. But the content is the same.
As for the phrase “Whatever Became of Jesus Christ?” I now use it as the title of chapter two in The Duty of a Man.