Men, we’re in a battle. We need to "stand firm in the faith." But this is not just a macho, baseless, ego-driven firmness. This is how so many men act—their firmness is mostly about proving something or defending their ego.

Many Christians, especially young men zealous for truth, see theological error and their first instinct is to go into “battle mode.”

But the Apostle Paul, facing down false teachers in Corinth, shows us a more excellent way. The character of our warfare matters. A thread. Before Paul brings the hammer down in 2 Corinthians 10, he starts with a plea. He doesn’t lead with a declaration of war, but with an appeal: “I, Paul, myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ...” (2 Cor 10:1).

He begs them to listen.

Essentially the difference between eschatological views can be boiled down to an interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:25: "For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet." Let me explain: Paul is defending the resurrection in 1 Cor 15. In so doing, he argues that "in Christ shall all be made alive" (22). But "each in his own order." Then he proceeds to present a threefold outline of the order of events in these last days:

God's Two Kingdoms—A Thread:

God intended for there to be one kingdom on earth, an expression of his sovereign rule over all things that was a union between man’s dominion over creation, that is culture, and man’s relationship with God, that is religion. However... Adam failed the requirements to rule that one kingdom, and so between his failure and the Second Adam’s success, God separated the two aspects of his unified kingdom into two kingdoms.

Adam's failure to exercise dominion over the earth is not our responsibility—The Second Adam will do it for us. A thread. Adam failed to be the king/priest God commanded him to be, and since we were in Adam, we will never be able to be what he was supposed to be. We are not new Adams who are supposed to do what Adam failed to do by somehow exercising dominion over creation.

Sometimes Christians today resist the idea that they need to confess their sins to God now that they’ve been forever justified by faith in the sacrifice of Christ. They know that repentance is necessary for salvation, but now that they’ve been forgiven, do Christians really need to confess any longer?

Perhaps this resistance is one reason Christians today avoid singing the psalms that focus on sin and confession.

“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” by Harry Emerson Fosdick:

“Already all of us must have heard about the people who call themselves the Fundamentalists. Their apparent intention is to drive out of the evangelical churches men and women of liberal opinions. 1/ It is interesting to note where the Fundamentalists are driving in their stakes to mark out the deadline of doctrine around the church, across which no one is to pass except on terms of agreement. 2/