The Writers
Christocentric is a Christ-centered blog authored by writers who love Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and ascribe to the beliefs mentioned on the “Christocentric Beliefs” tab.
We are dedicated in defending the faith, sharing the love of God and offering a hope to the unsaved so that they may share in the gift of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ.
For bios of each individual writer, click on the link to their names. They are as follows:
Carlotta Morrow – creator of Christocentric
Anitra – daughter of Carlotta
Tammy – blog engineer and administrator
Carlotta
Phil
Neil
Kevin Kaatz
July 31st 2008 on 11:29 am
Hello Carlotta,
I just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your website. I ‘found’ you through your comments on gcmw.com.
You offer so much information and insight into very important issues facing Christians (and frankly, the whole world) today. I like the way you write and look forward to checking your blog everyday.
God bless you and yours.
Grace and peace,
Lois
Twitter: christocentric
July 31st 2008 on 11:45 am
Thank you for your kind comments Lois and welcome to Christocentric!
I’m always hoping and praying that what I write about does reach people and help them in some way. Comments like yours let me know that my purpose is being served!
Peace to you!
Carlotta
August 10th 2008 on 11:42 am
Trying not to sound sycophantic here, but I echo what Lois has said! I found your blog in the same way.
Take care,
NS
Twitter: christocentric
August 10th 2008 on 7:10 pm
Oh don’t worry about being sycophantic!
Just glad you made it by my site!
November 6th 2008 on 5:43 pm
Carlotta:
Greetings! I discovered you over at Neil’s blog and I just had to drop by. I am a married 47year old Christian black man; conservative in life and politics. Your kindness and witnessing to Joe when debating was phenomenal.
Best,
Joseph
Twitter: christocentric
November 6th 2008 on 5:59 pm
Oh thanks so much Joseph!
I did for a second get you and Joe’s name mixed up – until I read what you wrote. That cleared things REAL QUICK!
Glad to always meet more ‘family’ members!
November 27th 2008 on 10:34 pm
Nosing about the web and came upon your site tonight. Just thought, in light of your statement “The primary purpose of this blog is to make a stand in the defense of the Christian faith.”, I’d add my 2 cents and commend you for having convictions that you live up to.
Just a thought, though. You state you’re “a follower of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and His word to us the Bible.” Actually, I wrote to CNS writer Carol Glatz about an article she bylined that contained statements about Bible literacy that you might want to look at ( I copied it to Andnowthetruth.com). The part I’m pointing you to is the section about the Divinity of the Christ, seeing as your statement leads me to think you believe that Jesus is God. You might find the thoughts along Biblical Truth interesting.
Send me a note and tell me what you think….
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November 28th 2008 on 11:11 am
clc, I take it from that website you referred, you don’t believe in the Trinity as being one God.
I’ll just leave you with this question which will be answered by scripture alone – even the New World Translation will agree with this one:
Who created the world, God the Father or the Son?
Any organization or belief system will have a problem explaining that Jesus is NOT God in the flesh because of these scriptures:
Isaiah – God the Father is creating the world ALL ALONE and in
Colossians – Christ the Son is creating.
How can that be? For those of us who accept the Trinity, we understand that the son and the Father as one created the heavens and the earth.
I haven’t met folks such as Jehovah’s Witnesses who could ever give an explanation to their belief in Christ not being God after sharing just those two verses.
All through the bible whenever prophets spoke, they would always say, “thus says the Lord” but whenever Jesus spoke, he would say, “Verily I say to you..”.
Jesus spoke with authority as the prophets would speak otherwise.
These are just a couple of reasons why my belief has been reinforced that Christ is the Son of God, equal to God.
Jesus = God.
November 29th 2008 on 7:42 pm
Carlotta:
You are absolutely right in making the statement that scripture should be used to answer questions relating to the Bible. That is backed up by what Peter wrote, under inspiration, at 2 pet 1:19-21: “Consequently we have the prophetic word [made] more sure; and YOU are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and a daystar rises, in YOUR hearts. For YOU know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.”
As to Isaiah 44:24-25
Isaiah was showing, in chapter 44, how the Israelites were engaging in a futile worship of images and idols. They had left the true worship of God and were in line for his discipline. In the first two verses he reminds Israel that they had been chosen by God, separated from the surrounding nations to become his servant. They are called “Jeshurun”, meaning “Upright One,” a title expressing affection and tenderness. The name is also a reminder that the Israelites should have remained upright, which they had often failed to do.
In verses 3-5 God says that life-giving waters of truth and his holy spirit will make Israel flourish mightily, like trees alongside irrigation canals. God will give his people the strength to carry out their role as witnesses to his Godship.
Under the Mosaic Law, a repurchaser—normally a male next of kin—could buy a person out of bondage. (Leviticus 25:47-54; Ruth 2:20) God now identifies himself as Israel’s Repurchaser—the one who will redeem the nation, to the embarrassment of Babylon and all her gods, as stated in verse 6. Verses 7-8 are a challenge by God to those false gods that Israel has been giving their devotion.
Verses 9-20 show the vanity that is involved in worshipping images, in violation of the second of the Ten Commandments. Isaiah shows that image makers are completely dependent on natural processes and materials that God created. He describes the uselessness of lifeless images and the shame awaiting those who make them. He also shows that image makers are completely dependent on natural processes and materials that God created, and that the real problem of idolatry lies in a person’s heart. Their hearts were corrupted, therefor allowing them to falsely worship idols instead of the True God.
God, in verses 21-23, next appeals to the Israelites to recall that they are in a privileged, responsible position. They are his witnesses, and he assures them that if they repent, he will completely cover over their sins, hiding their transgressions.
Finally, the end of the chapter, verses 24-28, gives a powerful climax to the whole chapter. Here God presents his own answer to the severest test of his Godship—the ability to foretell the future accurately. He announces by name the man who would liberate the nation of Israel from Babylon, Cyrus. Cyrus himself, in an official proclamation preserved in the Bible, declares: “This is what Cyrus the king of Persia has said, ‘All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah the God of the heavens has given me, and he himself has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God prove to be with him. So let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel—he is the true God—which was in Jerusalem.’” (Ezra 1:2, 3 NWT)
The 24th & 25th verses that you quote are God challenging the validity of the false gods represented by the images and idols that the Israelites were replacing true worship with. God is the Almighty creator, so he can make that statement. He alone can challenge the false gods they were accepting. He did not need to include anyone else because he is the one who created all things.
So, then, why does it state in 1 Cor 15-16 that Jesus, as the image of the invisible God, created all things?
The Bible calls Jesus “the firstborn of all creation” because he was in existence before the physical universe. Some scientists estimate that the universe is 13 billion years old. How was Jesus occupied during all those ages? As “the firstborn of all creation,” Jesus was then used by God to create all other things. (Revelation 3:14) John 1:1 says that “the Word” (Jesus in his prehuman existence) was with God “in the beginning.” So the Word was with God when “the heavens and the earth” were created. God was addressing the Word when He said: “Let us make man in our image.” (Genesis 1:1, 26) Likewise, the Word must have been God’s beloved “master worker,” described at Proverbs 8:22-31 as wisdom personified, laboring at God’s side in the making of all things. After God brought him into existence, the Word spent ages with God in heaven before becoming a man on earth. Jesus was called God’s “only-begotten Son” because Jehovah created him directly. (John 3:16)
Nowhere in the Bible is the teaching of the Trinity to be found. The early Christians did not have that belief. Note what The New Encyclopædia Britannica says on this point: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament.” In addition, Yale University professor E. Washburn Hopkins observed: “To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it.”
The information that I told you about in that letter to CNS is more extensive as a scriptural reply to the trinity.
I’ve got a lot of things going on here right now and can’t spend more time like I would like to on this letter. I took two weeks researching and composing that one to CNS, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging, as you were kind enough to respond to my comments, so I put this together for you.
Feel free to respond.
Thanks,
clc
Twitter: christocentric
November 29th 2008 on 8:13 pm
Clc, in all that you wrote, it still didn’t answer the question, how can both God and Jesus Christ do the creating when God explicitly said He would do the creating ALL ALONE.
You won’t be able to answer that question as one who doesn’t believe in the equality of the three persons in the Godhead.
Thankfully for me, other Christians have already written about the Trinity and I will direct you to one of our sites that I’m sure you may have heard of, Mathew Slick of Carm.org.
On this particular page of the Trinity, please note the acts that God the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit all have in common. For example, Christ resurrected only once, but look at how all three raised Christ from the dead. Only the Trinity can do that. So the word Trinity is not found in the bible, but that is the word that best describes the three persons in the Godhead.
CARM – The Trinity
The word Trinity is not in the Bible
Plurality of God shown in Old and New Testaments
November 29th 2008 on 9:12 pm
Carlotta,
It’s the same as when an individual says they do something when they are the responsible party, but they use others along with themselves to complete the task.
God ultimately created all things. His statement that he did it alone was refering to his being the responsible party.
The trinity teaching far predates Christianity. Its roots are from ancient Babylonian teachings.
Consider this: Scripture tells us no man has seen God and lived. Many have seen Christ.
God is only ever refered to as the Creator, not the created. Jesus is refered to as having been created.
God is always referred to as Father, Christ as Son.
The Bible doesn’t ever refer to Holy spirit as a person.
If Christ is part of a trinity, is God, then if God is Almighty how could he have died? Who resurrected him, seeing as he was dead?
You’re ascribing truth to a teaching that Jesus would never accept. It denegrates his relationship with his Father. It denies the Eternal Godship of the Creator. Jesus himself always subordinated himself to God.
The whole issue of Universal Sovereignty, the core theme of the Bible, would be false if God himself was not recognized as the Almighty, superior to all, including Jesus.
It’s not that I don’t believe that’s the issue. It’s what does the Scriptures really say that counts.
The Bible as inspired of God does not, nor never will, support the coequality of Jesus Christ with God. The trinity will continue to be an apostate idea that separates individuals from Truth.
Twitter: christocentric
November 30th 2008 on 9:08 am
clc, you aren’t truly searching for God’s truth, but are manufacturing false info fed to you by those you want to hear.
The information I’ve already shared with you would have answered all of the questions you presented – that is if you truly wanted the truth. I gave it to you but you rejected it. For example, you said that no where in the bible is the Holy Spirit referred to as a person. The info I shared showed His human qualities. That immediately let me know that you aren’t for researching truth, but just bantering in illogical arguments.
Thanks for stopping by but this is the end of this discussion as I don’t have time for endless, mindless debates.
But I will leave your comments on and open to anyone else who has the time and desire to debate you.
November 30th 2008 on 9:39 am
Carlotta, it’s not about debate or me, it’s what we individually do when Truth is presented. What I listen to is scripture and scripture alone for the past 35 years.
God made us with free will. Even athiests can choose to be so. All he said was a certain course of action will bring blessings from him and other courses will bring condemnation and judgement.
Matthew 7 tells us to stop judging, because we will be judged by the judgement we give out. Lord knows I’ve had rafters in my eyes, so I am not passing judgement on anybody’s straws, all I am doing is what I’ve been commissioned to do, preach the Good News.
Thanks for your time and keep up your good works,
clc
January 11th 2009 on 11:17 pm
Um…hello again, this is Kamau.
Umm…you should know better. It just clicked to me who you are now that I re-read your ‘about me’ thingy. All that time you once spent at Pan Afrikan Association meetings, around Baba Duane (now Baba Baye), Nana Nnamdi and the others… Wow, talk about reverse backsliding. There was NOTHING that the PAAA shared that was detrimental to Afrikan People & you should be ashamed of that blog entry. Since you deleted my first response, calling it ‘an ad’, when I mention my book like once in it…let’s see if you have space limits while I dig up some research to show how christianity is spiritually & mentally damaging to Afrikan people.
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January 12th 2009 on 7:45 am
Oh, so you’re familiar now with my meetings at Dr. Karenga’s center? Well let me be the first to tell you that his teachings were quite detrimental, especially to the Christians who are also part of his center. I don’t know how the Christians of his group could endure him talking trash about our Savior Jesus Christ. I sat in those meetings while listening as Dr. Karenga referred to Jesus as a blue-eyed devil among other not-so-kind things of Christianity!
Then I also had to endure his selections of “Christian speakers” like the one Resurrection Sunday where he had a guest come to speak about Christianity who denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That speaker, Mark Ridley-Thomas, is now a Los Angeles County Supevisor and at the time he spoke at “the center” he was the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Los Angeles branch. I was very hopeful for this center to finally have a Christian talk about Jesus but became dumbfounded when this man flat out denied Christ’s resurrection, which I even questioned him about while at the meeting. I don’t know what he believes now, but his information shared at that meeting was quite detrimental.
This is why I am even more motivated to speak out against Kwanzaa, as many of its participants also hate the teachings of Jesus Christ. So no Kamau, there’s nothing for me to be ashamed about at all. No, shame on all of those who dare call themselves Christians while denying the very Christ who can save them!
And please note, I have deleted all of your previous responses that had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
January 12th 2009 on 1:35 pm
Carlotta, I will make the time to read you book about Kwanzaa. I remember when I was much younger that I went through a phase of reading the likes of Malcolm X, looking into Kwanzaa and being overly angry about slavery and its effects.
It is heartbreaking (and if I’m totally honest, it angers me too) to see Christianity misrepresented by folks such as Kamau. They question I have is: if Jesus were black, would you repent and follow Him then? It’s clear that those who dismiss Christianity as a “white man’s religion” have no idea what Biblical Christianity entails, and that it is about mankind’s need for redemption from sin, death and hell and nothing to do with the social construct of race.
The Lord bless you and keep up the good work!
Twitter: christocentric
January 12th 2009 on 2:00 pm
Thanks Systah!
I should have that book ready real soon. As soon as finish with the edits, then I remember something else that I want to add. Thank God I have no deadline or else I would never meet it! I’m not a “true” writer, but a person who wants to share things with people in “written form.” So the writing has been quite difficult for me.
Yes, folks like Kamau do get me angry, and I will try to remember to calm down enough to give him the information he needs regarding the gospel of Jesus Christ. I must remember to turn that anger into “caring” as I truly don’t want him to face eternal damnation!
You’re right that most who accuse Christianity of not being for those of African ancestry truly don’t have an accurate knowledge of it. The work is definitely there for us to evangelize with the TRUTH of God’s Word!
Thanks for your words of encouragement!
April 12th 2009 on 10:26 pm
Jesus was neither black or white he was of middle eastern appearance and ANYONE who calls on His Name will be saved Acts 2:21 It is only the Roman Catholic Church who presents Jesus as the blue eyed blond man along with all their other heretical teachings.
Good to meet you Carlotta I look forward to visiting your blog often. Loved the blog on stay at home Mums.
God Bless You
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April 13th 2009 on 5:20 am
Thank you Miss Melly and I surely appreciate your comments!
And glad you enjoyed the stay at home moms article as well.
God bless you too!
August 10th 2009 on 12:51 pm
I just found your website and am enjoying it. As a white woman I had no idea that so many people thought of Christianity as a “white man’s religion”. I’m saddened to hear that. What a lie from the enemy to keep people from the love of Christ for ALL. But I’m encouraged to see you remind readers that nowhere in the Bible does it mention the color of our skin being of importance to our salvation. Jesus Christ is much more concerned with our character than our color. Praise God that you are bold in telling the Truth to your readers. I also wanted to applaud you for saying what I think so many are afraid to say – that married mothers should be at home with their children. I think mothers have somehow missed (and Fathers, for that matter) JUST how important they are in their children’s lives, even once they are school age. God put mothers/fathers in the role as the ones to raise their children for a reason. What a joy and blessing and a privilege it is to raise our children and tell them of the love of Christ and instill HIS values in their lives and train and equip them to be bold followers of Christ. Keep up the good (and tiresome, I’m sure) work. All glory to Christ Alone!!
Twitter: christocentric
August 19th 2009 on 11:57 am
Thank you Christy for such kind words! I’m very happy that you are enjoying my site. Even more glad that you agree with the need for moms to be moms and dads to be dads! You’re right that God made us different for a reason – to complete and compliment the family! And it sounds like your family is on the right track!
Again, thanks for stopping by!
September 4th 2009 on 12:39 pm
Carlotta,
I don’t mean to sound mean-spirited. Quite the opposite, in fact, what I am about to ask makes me truly sorry.
But something I have always wondered about is, as you put it, “black Christians.” How do you reconcile your faith with the way it was forced upon your enslaved ancestors?
What kind of God can’t get his message to your people until they are enslaved by others?
I’m genuinely curious and deeply regret the atrocities of slavery and forced conversion.
Twitter: christocentric
September 4th 2009 on 1:04 pm
Mr. Atheist, that’s not a difficult question you’re asking me at all. The way slavery was forced upon my ancestors was quite unbiblical and extremely un-Christ-like.
The message of the gospel came to my ancestors BEFORE the American slavery took place. An Ethiopian became a Christian in the bible (Acts chapter 8). If an Eastern African heard the gospel then I’m sure there were ways in West Africa that many heard the gospel as well.
The horrible mistreatment of the slaves is not supported anywhere in the bible.
September 11th 2009 on 11:13 am
Kwanzaa is biblical. Read Exodus chapter 23. It upholds God’s plan to look at our lives annually and work together to improve it. Christmas promotes lying to children.
Trust
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September 11th 2009 on 1:07 pm
Joy, more on Kwanzaa on my Kwanzaa blog and website.