Daniel Botkin
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A Virgin Birth in Genesis
Every year as the Christmas season approaches, skeptics challenge and deny the possibility of the Virgin Birth of the Savior. I find it...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 15
The Focus of Our Faith
There are two important aspects of our faith I want to discuss. First I want to discuss the importance of having a clear focus from the...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 8
The Christmas Question
IS IT REALLY PAGAN? Throughout Israel’s history, God’s people often mingled their worship of the one true God with customs and traditions...
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 1
“That’s a Mistranslation!"
One of my pet peeves is people trying to dismiss a Bible truth by repeating the trite, worn-out excuse “That’s a mistranslation.” No...
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 24
The Mystery of God Finished
Suppose an evil man plans to abduct, abuse, and murder a child. Each day he hides in a clump of trees by a playground in a park. He waits...
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 17
Adopting, Taking Hold of, & Clinging to False Sabbaths
Approximately 200 years before Christ, Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek. This Greek translation is called the...
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 10
The Flaws of Father Abraham
For Jews and Christians, Abraham is the father of our faith. We do not want to dishonor Abraham by criticizing him, but at the same time,...
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 4
Enamored of Enoch
Yes, I have read the Book of Enoch. No, it is not supposed to be in the canon of Scripture. I first read Enoch when I was living in...
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 27
THE GOSPEL Something To Be Obeyed
The gospel is the good news that God sent His Son into the world to save sinners. What are we supposed to do with the gospel? “That’s...
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 20
Morality & Mortality
The English words morality and mortality sound very similar but have very different meanings and different etymologies. The word...
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 13
“He Made Me Do It!”
Blaming someone else for one’s sins goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. God asked Adam if he had eaten the forbidden fruit. “The...
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 6
Parable of a Church Building
There once was a town that had no church building. In that town there was a group of Christians who decided to erect a church building...
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 29
Why I Quit Drinking Wine
Even before I was saved, I started losing interest in drinking alcoholic beverages. After I graduated from college, I occasionally drank,...
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 22
"Let Not . . . "
In Paul’s writings we often see statements that begin with the phrase “Let not...” Consider the way that we normally understand Paul’s...
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 15
The Importance of Prepping
When people think about preppers and prepping, they usually think about people preparing for possible future calamities by stockpiling...
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 8
Disciples: Devotion, Diligence, Discipline
If you took geometry in high school, you learned the difference between 2-D (two dimensional) and 3-D (three dimensional) geometry. In...
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 1
A Doer of the Wor_
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 25
The Wicked Flea
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion” (Proverbs 28:1). Revelation 21:8 says the fearful shall have...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 18
The Tree of Knowledge & The Tree of Life
TWO TREES God planted a garden eastward in Eden. In this garden were various kinds of trees, but two specific trees were singled out from...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 11
"If I Forget Thee, O New Jerusalem. . ."
Shortly before his death, I heard Rush Limbaugh say that a recent study shows that there is a part of the human brain that causes us to...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 4
The Spirit of Babylon
"I came upon a wedding That old families had contrived: Bethlehem the Bridegroom, Babylon the Bride." - Leonard Cohen in “Last Year’s Man...
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 28
The Snake & The Sword
A Dream of Daniel Botkin, 3/27/96 Several people were in a house. One man saw snakes that had infiltrated the house and hidden themselves...
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 21
Slapping the Savior’s Face
No one single man nor one single ethnic group is to blame for killing Christ. We are all “Christ killers,” because He willingly chose to lay
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 14
The Sender of Strong Delusion
The American Supreme Court’s decision some years ago to legalize same-sex “marriage” did not surprise me. I was grieved and disappointed,...
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