DOES GRACE VOID THE LAW? The answer is an emphatic, no! The two work together. Grace is unmerited pardon given by God: The Ten Commandments are the Law given by God. If there is no law then no grace is needed because nothing can be considered wrong or evil. How can you have grace if there is no…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 6 – ABRAM JOURNEYS TO CANAAN
TWO YEARS after the Flood, when Noah's son Shem was a hundred years old, Shem had a son called Arphaxad. (Gen. 11:10.) When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had a son named Salah. (Gen. 11:12.) Several generations went by in this manner. When about three hundred years had passed, a man by the name…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 5 – THE TOWER OF BABEL
FROM then on, all the people who came into the world descended from Noah's three sons and their wives. (Gen. 9:19.) After some years had gone by, there developed many inhabitants in the plains area south of where the ark had landed. Some of them moved farther down into the valleys of the Tigris and…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 4 – AND THE FLOOD CAME
PERHAPS few noticed on that morning the wind was a little stronger than usual. By noon there were violent gusts that grew into gales. People were forced to shelter. Strong winds weren't very unusual, but when swift-moving masses of unusually dark clouds boiled up over the horizon, residents began to worry. To add to the…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 3 – NOAH BUILDS THE ARK!
GOD LOOKED with sorrow on these human creatures He loved. He was so displeased at their refusal to abide by His rules for happy living that He decided to do an awesome thing. He would blot them out of existence by a worldwide Flood! (Gen. 6:7). God knew that if human beings were to continue…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 2 – THOU SHALT SURELY DIE!
LONG AGO God put true facts into the minds of a few men whom He chose. These men wrote out those facts in words God put into their minds. It was like God writing by using human minds. God does not lie. (Titus 1:2.) He does not make mistakes. Therefore every word written by those…
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Volume 1 – Chapter 1 – IN THE BEGINNING
HAVE YOU ever looked down on the Earth from a high hill or a mountain or an airplane? From such high places the planet we live on looks very huge, even though we can see only a small part of it. Perhaps it is difficult for you to imagine how something so big could be…
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Introduction
by Herbert W. Armstrong NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A BIBLE STORY BOOK LIKE THIS. THAT IS NOT A RASH STATEMENT INDULGING IN SUPERLATIVES. IT IS THE TRUTH. I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN THE REASON. For years, in my ministry, I felt an overpowering sense of responsibility, mingled with a feeling of inadequacy, for getting the…
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THE ENTREPRENEUR AS HERO
By: Walter E. Williams John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics George Mason University Let’s starts off talking about the entrepreneur with a brief discussion of the sources of income. Some of the rhetoric one hears gives the impression that income is somehow distributed – that there’s a dealer of dollars. Thus, one might think…
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