Jason's Bible Blog – Articles by Jason Patrick Hilburn

What A.I. Says About Presbyterian Churches

An Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) chatbot allows people to ask it questions of practically any kind, and it “works by processing large amounts of text data and using patterns in that data to generate responses that are relevant and coherent” (chatgpt.com). The most widely used chatbot is called ChatGPT: “As of September 2024, ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool in the world. The AI chatbot receives 3.1 billion monthly website visits from over 180 million users” (explodingtopics.com).… Read more

What A.I. Says About Methodist Churches

What A.I. Says about Baptist Churches

What A.I. Says About Pentecostal Churches

ChatGPT Confirms What We Teach!

ChatGPT is an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) chatbot that “works by processing large amounts of text data and using patterns in that data to generate responses that are relevant and coherent” (chatgpt.com). A friend of mine asked ChatGPT some questions about salvation and shared it. I was amazed at the answers he received, so I thought I would try it. I worded my questions a little differently than he did, and I also asked ChatGPT to recommend a church that teaches the Truth.… Read more

Why I Got Baptized Again

I grew up in the Baptist church, and one day in worship I decided I wanted to be saved, so I went to the front and the preacher prayed with me. They told me I was saved at that point, and I was not baptized on that day, because they believe water baptism has nothing to do with salvation, so my baptism was delayed. It was days or weeks later when I was baptized in water.… Read more

Proof That People Who Were Once Saved Can Be Sent to Hell

Friends, do you understand how dangerous it is for people to believe that no matter what they do, they cannot lose their salvation and go to Hell, even though God says they can? Many churches teach a doctrine called “Perseverance of the Saints,” which is part of a false doctrine called Calvinism (named after John Calvin). They allege that a saved child of God may “fall” into sin, but somehow God will ultimately keep him from losing his salvation.… Read more

The Book of Life and Falling from Grace

The first time the Book of Life is mentioned in the Bible, God said He would blot names out of it: “…him will I blot out of my book” (Exodus 32:32-33). Also, the last time the Book of Life is mentioned in the Bible, it says God will take people out of it: “…God shall take away his part out of the book of life…” (Revelation 22:19; see also 3:5; Psalm 69:28). A Baptist preacher I studied with this week said that God would never take someone’s name from the Book of Life, and another one I studied with in recent years claimed that God never said He would do that.… Read more

10 Questions for Those Who Doubt God’s Providence

Although we do not understand everything about God’s providence (Esther 4:14; Rom. 11:33), faithful Christians should firmly believe in the non-miraculous providence of God today. We can ask our loving Heavenly Father for anything according to His will, and He hears and grants our requests (1 Pet. 3:12; 1 Jn. 5:14-15). Sometimes we do not know what God’s will is (such as when we are deciding where to live or what job offer to accept), and we simply pray for wisdom and for God’s will to be done (Mt.… Read more

10 Things for Which Christians Can Pray

Those who believe and obey the Gospel of Christ are blessed to have access to God the Father through His Son (Acts 2:36-42), and they may pray for things such as:

1. Forgiveness (Acts 8:22-24; Jam. 5:16; 1 Jn. 1:9)

2. Daily necessities (Matt. 6:11)

3. Deliverance from evil (Matt. 6:13)

4. Strength, boldness (Eph. 3:14-21; 6:18-19)

5. Opportunities (Col. 4:3; cf. 1 Cor. 16:9)

6. Wisdom (Jam. 1:5)

7. Other Christians (1 Thess. 5:25; Heb. 13:18)

8. Government leaders and all men (1 Tim.… Read more

The “Model Prayer” of Matthew 6 (for us)

1. Address the Father

2. Honor His name

3. Pray for the kingdom (the kingdom/church has come, but we can pray for it to spread, pray for the members, congregations, etc.)

4. Pray for God’s will to be done

5. Pray for daily necessities (“daily bread”)

6. Pray for forgiveness

7. Pray for deliverance from the evil one

8. Acknowledge God’s sovereignty and glory

9. Today we pray in Jesus’ name (John 16:23-24)

10. Say, “Amen”

Note: Jesus gave us an example of prayer, not to be quoted verbatim.… Read more

Ten Tips for Leading Public Prayers

1. Speak clearly and respectfully to God the Father in Jesus’ name

2. Use first person plural pronouns (we, us, our), not I, me, my

3. Think about your prayer in advance if possible

4. Honor prayer requests as much as possible (glancing at a note is ok)

5. If you make a mistake, fix it if possible and move on

6. Pray pertaining to the situation (Is this an opening prayer? closing prayer? prayer before communion? prayer before giving? prayer for someone to be forgiven?… Read more

A Living Faith

Works without faith = dead works (Heb. 9:14).

Faith without works = dead faith (Jam. 2:14-26).

Faith including works of obedience to God’s New Testament commands = a living faith granting salvation by God’s grace and the blood of Christ (Matt. 7:21-27; 26:28; 28:18-20; John 14:15, 21-24; 15:10, 14; Acts 2:38-41; 10:34-35, 48; 22:16; Rom. 1:5; 2:5-10; 6:3-5, 16-18; 16:26; Gal. 5:6; Eph. 2:1-19; Php. 2:12; Titus 1:16; 2:11-14; Heb. 5:9; 10:22; 1 Pet. 1:22; 3:20-21; 1 John 1:6-2:6; 5:3; Rev.… Read more

Keeping the Unity of the Spirit

In Ephesians chapter four, Paul said Christians must endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit (unity based on what the Spirit revealed), being bound together in peace and love (Eph. 4:2-3), but unity and peace are destroyed when people deviate from what the Spirit revealed in the Bible. The Holy Spirit gave us the “seven ones” of unity (Eph. 4:4-6), and to be united we must all agree upon these critical criteria:

“There is one body,” Christ’s one church for which He died (Eph.

How Are We Using Our Days?

A 30-year-old person has lived about 11,000 days. 50 years is 18,250 days. An 80-year-old has lived over 29,000 days! What have we done with our days, and what are we doing with our days? God will hold us accountable for how we have spent the time He gave us (Matthew 25:14-30). Will we be justified to tell God we had no time for Him, the very one who gave us our existence? Do we realize how valuable time is, and do we use our time wisely?… Read more