Good Intentions? Have you noticed when reading the Bible concerning Christ’s death and resurrection that translators’ attempts to make statements clearer sometimes obfuscate the actual meaning instead? A good example is found in Luke 23:43. It reads, Jesus answered him, ”I tell you the truth today you will be with me in paradise.”…
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Does Grace Void the Law
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 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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Why do Some Churches Think That We do Not Have to Keep God's Sabbath?
Let's explore with open minds, the ideas that the Seventh Day Sabbath was only for the Jewish people; that the Sabbath was automatically changed to Sunday when Jesus Christ was resurrected on Sunday and, finally as some think, that the God's Laws were done away with when Christ died so we so we no longer…
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Law & Grace Primer
The New Testament Bible makes some clear, emphatic statements regarding the Law: Not the hearers but the doers of the Law are justified Ro 2:13. Faith does not void the Law it establishes the law. Ro 3:31 Sin does not exist if there is no Law. Ro 5:13 John defined sin as the violation of God's…
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Our Life as Christians
When you first got baptized did you think that your troubles would be over? Many new Christians fall into this trap. They somehow think that baptism is sort of a magic bullet that is part of a formula that will bring them nothing but total success on the way to God's kingdom. Nothing could be…
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Do Your Job!
As a new Christian, your job is to grow in knowledge, love and obedience to our Great God and do what pleases Him. We should strive to become mature Christians because that is God's goal and desire for us. A definition of maturity is being fully developed or, in a perfected or completed state. We…
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Does For ever, Mean For ever In the Old Testament?
Bible translators, as they translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into English, often used the word, "for ever", to represent the Hebrew word, "owlam".(Strong's H5769) To us, "for ever" generally means for all eternity. "Owlam", however, has many other meanings, in addition to "for ever". It is important for our deeper understanding of God's Word,…
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