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351: Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church?
Does God Approve Instrumental Music in church? Click to View Click to View Mechanical instruments of prayer: Buddhist Prayer Wheel: Pictured left are two Buddhist ... use is only in accord with the traditions of men The Bible, indeed, never condemns the use of instruments of music in worship, but neither does it command their use. ... In the New Testament, which is our guide today, the apostle, Paul, says that faith comes by hearing the word of God and that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. This is another way of saying that if you cannot find command or example for an act of worship in the will of Christ (the New Testament), you should not do that act. ... the use of instruments is scriptural and history shows that the early Christians interpreted the apostles' instructions to mean that instruments should not be used. ... Thus, say the proponents of this argument, to obey this divine command, instruments must be used. The following two reasons oppose this argument and show it to be ... ...
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352: Christianity can defeat Racism!
But underneath the differences of custom, we all have basically the same nature - the ability to love and hate, a sense of responsibility, a conscience, and a respect for justice and right, though we may define them differently. So the first step we need to take is to ... To be sure, when the world became filled with corruption and violence, God selected a man of great faith through whom he could ultimately bless this corrupt world. To preserve his faith through the centuries until the Christ should come, God built a ... Finally, what is the attitude God expects us to have toward those of a different race, color, language, nation, or even social status? Jesus put the attitude perfectly when he said in Matthew 7: 12, "Whatsoever you would that men ... We do not want others to be prejudiced against us; we want them to understand us. Hence we are not to be prejudiced against others, but try to understand them. No matter in what position we may find ourselves, we want to be treated ... ...
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353: Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ...
Development of Trinity Doctrine: 100-325 AD Post-Biblical development of Trinity Doctrine: 100 AD - 325 AD Nicene era Click to View Also see outline on: Progressive revelation between the Old ... It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of baptism into the threefold name of God. By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis). (The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea ... As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity. This does not mean very much, however, for generally speaking the New Testament is less ... says that the "Nicene concept of Trinity" is not in the Bible, they would say that early Christians and the scriptures clearly taught that Jesus was both pre-existent and fully divine! ... ...
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354: The triple Nature of man: Body, Spirit & Soul
They believe Jesus ceased to exist for the three days he was dead B. Biblical view: Man is a dichotomous (dual natured) being: Man is composed partly of matter (body) and partly of non-material soul and spirit. In a more technical sense man is trichotomous possessing body, soul and spirit: 1 Thess 5:23 Soul and spirit ... II. Arguments to prove the dichotomous (dual) nature of man: A. Properly define the meaning of the word death: Carnalists define death as the cessation of all activity, ... Physical death: (separation of body and soul): Eccl 12;7; Gen 25:17; Jas 2;26 Spiritual death: (separation of God & man):Gen 2:17; Isa 59:1-2; Lk 15:24; Mt 8:22; Eph ... Dead to sin joined to God: Rom 6:2,11; Gal 2:24 Dead to the Law of Moses, joined to Law of Christ: Rom 7:4; Gal 2:19 B. The word soul is used in many different ways in ... Carnalists teach that man's spirit is his breath or life force like electricity and is non-conscious Spirit means breath in Gen 2:7 & 2 Th 2:8, does it mean this every ... ...
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355: Tongues Ceased in AD 100: Introduction: Cessation of Spiritual ...
The three gifts in 13:8 are said to be "in part" or partial in the sense that each gives only a portion of the revelation God has intended for the church. Accordingly, that which is described ... view, the point of 13:13 is that faith, hope, and love continue throughout the present age, in contrast to the revelatory gifts which cease with the completion of the canon. Beyond this, love is said to be the greatest of these in that it will continue on into eternity. The same is not true with faith and hope. When Christ returns, faith in Christ is replaced with seeing Christ, while hope in the promises of God is ... The Spirit distributes to each one individually just as He wills v11 When He ascended on High He gave gifts to men v8 God has allotted to each a measure of faith v3 To one is given wisdom, ... This naive and poorly thought out position is defeated when it is pointed out that "knowledge" was one of the nine listed spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit in 1 Cor 12. 2. "Knowledge. Placed ... ...
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356: Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise, John Hill, 1766 AD
oftenest by this disease; and of all degrees of men I think the clergy. I do not mean the hunting, shooting, drinking clergy, who bear the tables of the great; but the retired and conscientious; such as attend in midnight silence to their duty". The general view of the day was that preachers were lazy and sedentary, and that few were physically active. He described the symptoms similar to a depression. "lowness of spirits, and inaptitude to motion; a disrelish of amusements, a love of solitude, Wild thoughts; a sense of fullness". His cures focused on natural herbs ... destruction of the sufferer; no antimonial, no mercurial, no martial preparation must be taken; in short, no chymistry: nature is the shop that heaven has set before us, and we must seek our medicine there". ... is it need-ful : one object will not fail to lead on to another, and every where the goodness of his God will thine before him even in what are thought the vileft things ; his greatness in the leatt of them. ... ...
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357: BEWARE: Arian Biased Translations
Modernists who deny the virgin birth are quoted by Jehovah's Witnesses because both deny the deity of Christ! Bible Scoffers and Arians make strange bedfellows! Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal refuted ... However, Schonfield, author of "The Passover Plot", makes Jesus into a charlatan, and doesn't even believe in the deity of God the Father! Schonfield, an advocate of the "swoon theory" is quoted by the Muslims in support of their view that Jesus didn't actually die on the cross. Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The origin of the [Trinity] is ... The Complete Bible renders Matthew 1:23 as "A maiden will become pregnant ..." - again denying the virgin birth. Even if one might debate whether the Hebrew word has to mean virgin, there is no ... Nestorius, who was condemned by the third Council of Ephesus in A.D. 431, taught that Jesus had two persons in one body, one human and one divine. Lamsa said: "the Eastern Christians believe in one ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-translations.htm
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358: What Early Christians believed about Occult, spiritism & astrology
What did early Christians believe about...? (Before 400 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Occult, spiritism & astrology Click to View 170 AD Tatian the Syrian "[Under the influence of demons] men form the material of their apostasy. For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars, like dice-players, they ... I allege not that he honors idols, whose names he has inscribed on the heaven, to whom he has attributed all God's power. . . . One proposition I lay down: that those angels, the deserters of God ... But what similarity is there of these [constellations] with the likeness of animals, or what community of nature are regards conduct and energy, that one should allege that a person born in Leo should ... art of magic, and whatever other evil practices these men exercise, either openly or in secret" (Divine Institutes 2:16) 317 AD Lactantius "[Demons] brought to light astrology, and augury, and ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/H-occult-spiritism.htm
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359: Extra-Biblical oral apostolic tradition does not exist today
... Also, if we now believe it, that proves that the church always believed it. My friends, that is just not good enough. Greg Litmer Click to View Is Tradition a Source Of God's Revelation? The Catholic Church teaches that there are two sources of ... Hence, both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal feelings of devotion and reverence... . It is clear therefore that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred Tradition, sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church are so connected and associated that one of them cannot stand without the others" (Vatican II, Const. on Divine Revelation, Chp. 2, Sec. 9). "Christ did not leave his followers a religion in the sense of a 'package of clear well defined truths'...the ... spokesman" for the church STUDY THE SCRIPTURES to see if what Paul and Silas had taught were true? Remember we will be judged by God's Word and not the traditions of men (Jn. 12:48). Jim Venturino Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ...
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360: Difficult Questions for Mormons to answer
How do you account for the stunning parallels in both content and order between the B of M and the View of the Hebrews, by Ethan Smith? Published in 1823 (7 years ... See Articles of Faith, by Talmage, page 262, 34th ed.) If Moroni devoutly practiced the Mormon Gospel, why is he an angel now rather than a God? (Doc. & Cov. 132:17,37) Why do Mormons emphasize part of the Word of Wisdom and ignore the part forbidding the eating of meat except in winter, cold or famine? (Doc. & Cov. 89:12,13). When Christ died, did darkness cover the land for three days or for three hours? (Luke 23:44 and 3 Nephi 8:19, 23). Joseph Smith said that there are men living on ... (pg. 164) My response to Welch: You'll have to forgive my trivializing nature but rabbit hair doesn't equal silk in my book. What about Chariots (Alma 18:9)? ... We read that an angel came down and revealed himself to Joseph Smith and manifested unto him in a vision the true position of the world in a religious point of view. He ... ...
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361: Geographic variation caused New Testament canon variation from ...
A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on the scriptures ... set until about 300AD. The canon underwent a progression of development, which by faith, we believe was guided by divine providence to what we have today in the 21 century. 2. Although it is true that Hebrews seems to have been ... III. Roman Catholic and Orthodox confuse the issue: 1. The incorrect Orthodox church view: 1. "Most churches only had parts of what was to become the New Testament." (Which Came First: The Church or the New Testament?, Fr. James ... If he can make you think the Bible did not exist until the fourth century, then he can deceive you into thinking that perhaps the Orthodox position on "church tradition" is correct. 2. Notice both imply that many of the 27 New ... ...
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362: Sola Scriptura and the Apostolic Fathers: 200 AD: Tertullian
Whereas all doctrine must be prejudged as false which savours of contrariety to the truth of the churches and apostles of Christ and God. It remains, then, that we demonstrate whether this ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the ... in the body of a dove, and sat upon the Lord. (Tertullian, The Flesh of Christ, ch 3) Click to View Tertullian appeals to scriptures as his primary and foremost doctrinal standard with no mention of oral tradition. ... "out of.") of its proper force as a preposition, and to substitute another for it in a sense not found throughout the Holy Scriptures! (Tertullian, The Flesh of Christ, ch 20) Click to ... This rule, as it will be proved, was taught by Christ, and raises amongst ourselves no other questions than those which heresies introduce, and which make men heretics." (Tertullian, the ... ...
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363: God never named the church
Now, let's suppose you asked someone what the name of the moon is. What would they say? Obviously, they would say "moon." Yet, that does not mean that the name of the moon is really "moon." If ... Yet the Bible tells us the word "Christian" is a name. The church is described in many ways with "metaphors". Each metaphor gives us a different view point of the church. These are ... together to work and worship together. Example: "to the CHURCH OF GOD which is at Corinth, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SANCTIFIED in Christ Jesus, SAINTS..." (1 Cor. 1:2). Likewise, Acts 20:28, Acts 11:26 and 1 Tim. 3:15 all refer to the local church not the universal. One should not conclude the elders are to oversee "the church" in the universal sense in which it is used in 1 Cor. 12. Metaphors for the church Note: ... The sad thing is that many people were taught these errors which were adopted and accepted when they are nothing more than false doctrinal traditions of men. IV. "church of Christ" or Church ... ...
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364: Josh McDowell's Powerful Evidience for Resurrection
Click to View Evidence for the resurrection! For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, ... "For a very simple reason," I answered. "I am not able to explain away an event in history-the resurrection of Jesus Christ." How can we explain the empty tomb? Can ... Three days after His death and burial, some women who went to His tomb found the body gone. In subsequent weeks, His disciples claimed that God had raised Him from ... LIVING WITNESSES The New Testament accounts of the resurrection were being circulated within the lifetimes of men and women alive at the time of the resurrection. ... burial, entombment, sealing, and guarding of Christ's tomb that it becomes very difficult for critics to defend their position that Christ did not rise from the dead. ... FACT #5: GRAVE CLOTHES TELL A TALE In a literal sense, against all statements to the contrary, the tomb was not totally empty-because of an amazing phenomenon. John, ... ...
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365: Mental Illness cures: 155 Sins in the Bible
The best way to improve yourself is to start reading your Bible daily and begin attending a Bible believing church in your own home town: Find me a church in my own home town now! Self-test 1: MMPI-7 (Meticulous Moral Principles Inquiry) Click to View This is test #1: Divine Sin Manual (DSM-7) An Inventory of 155 sinful behaviours Instructions: Circle anything that applies to you in ... Category #7 atheism, denying Satan exists, denying Jesus died on the cross or rose from the dead, hating God, sorcery, idolatry, fortune-telling, casting spells, interpreting omens, calling up the dead, mediums and spiritists, soothsayers, séances, Ouija boards, horoscopes, witchcraft, paganism, divination, worshipping nature or cows or statues of fat men, praying to dead Christians instead of to God, not praying, repeating the same prayer many times in a row, not attending church weekly, any doctrine not taught in the Bible blueprint, taking God's name in vain by saying, "Oh my God" or "Jesus Christ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-cures-DSM-7-divine-sin-manual-inventory-of-155-sinful-behaviours.htm
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366: What Early Christians believed about deviant sex
Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View What Christians believed about deviant sex! Click to View 151 AD ... nature, and are impious toward both [human] bodies and the sexes, we banish, not only from the threshold but also from all shelter of the Church, for they are not sins so much as monstrosities" (Modesty 4). 250 AD Novatian "[God forbid the Jews to eat certain foods for symbolic reasons:] For that in fishes the roughness of scales is regarded as constituting their cleanness; rough, and rugged, and unpolished, and substantial, and grave manners are approved in men; while those that are without scales are unclean, because trifling, and fickle, and faithless, and effeminate manners are disapproved. Moreover, what does the Law mean when it . . . forbids the ... Whether in the house or in a place where there is no one to see your actions, be not found in his company under the pretense either of studying the divine oracles or ... ...
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367: Official creed of Church of the Nazarene
We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that He truly arose from the dead and took again His body, together with all things appertaining to the perfection fo man's nature, ... We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, that He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, ... We believe in the plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by which we understand the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our ... But we also believe that the grace of God through Jesus Christ is freely bestowed upon all men, enabling all who will to turn from sin to righteousness, believe on Jesus Christ for pardon ... We believe that repentance, which is a sincere and thorough change of the mind in regard to sin, involving a sense of personal guilt and a voluntary turning away from sin, is demanded of ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-Nazarene.htm
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368: Why Does God Allow Suffering?
Why Does God Allow Suffering? Click to View Click to View see also: Why did God Kill My loved one? The I can remember a lady years ago who gave up her faith in God ... He missed church for 3 months blaming it on God. The preacher came and said to him, "Son, God knows that, while it is impossible to grow good grain with a drought, it is also impossible to grow good men without a drought. God's object is to grow men not grain!" Insurance policies usually have a clause describing "acts of ... If calamity occurs in our life, it can bring us back to our sense of what is really important and what is not. Diamonds must be treated roughly to make them shine. The ... being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." ... We stub our toes, cut our fingers, break our legs, catch the flu, get into car accidents. Some things just happen by the very nature of our physical existence. No one ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/marriage/f-sufferingWhy.htm
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369: Non-Catholic churchgoers before 1965 AD will be cast into hell ...
Non-Catholic churchgoers before 1965 AD will be cast into hell! Click to View Doctrinal flip flops Click to View More Catholic doctrinal Flip-Flops Officially, before ... With reference to those words Augustine says: `If any man be outside the Church he will be excluded from the number of sons, and will not have God for Father since he ... salvation, on the other hand, He formally enjoined upon men the duty of obeying His Church as Himself, and religiously taking her as a guide of their whole lives. "He that heareth you, heareth Me; he that despiseth you, despiseth me." (Luke 10:16) Therefore, it is from the Church alone that the law of Christ must be asked: and, consequently, if for man Christ is the way, the Church, too, is the way, the former of Himself and by His nature, the latter by delegation and communication of power. ... "By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to ... ...
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370: Kung, Hans: Christianity and the World Religions
... Doctrine, Bernard Lohse, 1966, p37-39) The deception is that Muslims would take just a great offence at the JW's "incarnation of the pre-existent angel called Jesus" false theology as they would the true Bible teaching of the full deity of Christ! Further Muslims would be just as hindered by the Anti-trinitarian view that Jesus is called the "SON" of God. ... They do not see why faith in one God, the faith of Abraham, which both Moses and Jesus and, finally, Muhammad, clung so firmly to, is not abandoned when, along with the one godhead, the one divine nature, Christians simultaneously accept three persons in God. Why, after all, should one differentiate between nature and person in God? It is well ... Why should anyone want to add anything to the notion of God's oneness and uniqueness that can only dilute or nullify that oneness and uniqueness? The Qur'an says, "They are unbelievers / who say, 'God is the Third of Three' [or threefold in trinity]." This position, which Muhammad ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kung.htm
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371: Newman, John Henry: Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Trinitarian It is deceptive to deliberately misrepresent Newman to say that trinity is pagan origin, when in the same breath Newman also says that incarnation, angles, demons, divine kingdom and new birth are also of pagan origin. In Fact Newman doesn't believe ... But it surely is otherwise with the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity. I do not see in what sense it can be said that there is a consensus of primitive [church ... usages had originally come from primitive revelations and from the instinct of nature, though they had been corrupted ... and that they were moreover possessed of the ... by Pope Leo III in 1879, 1878, p351-353) so the philosophies and religions of men have their life in certain true ideas, though they are not directly divine." ... enough to be only a heretic not enough to prove that one has held that the Son is God (for so did the Sabellian, so did the Macedonian) and another that the Father is ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Newman.htm
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372: Inherited Sin: definitions and official creeds
Although entirely inconsistent with Calvinism as an interdependent system of domino theology, the idea that newborns go to hell is not politically correct and offends the common sense of many people. This kind of theological inconsistency is common among Baptists, for example, when ... Manual, Statement of faith Article III # 5: "Man was Originally created in the image and likeness of God; he fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All men are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Pentecostal: Statement of Fundamental and Essential Truths: Article IV: "Man was ... "We believe that this spiritual death, or total corruption of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire race of man, the man Christ Jesus alone excepted, and hence that every child of Adam is born into the world with a sinful nature." Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ...
https://www.bible.ca/cal-T-creeds.htm
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373: Official creed of Christadelphian's Ecclesia
See also: conscious life after death proven Resurrection and judgement of all men proven Objections to conscious life after death refuted! Death always means ... the prophets, and the apostles, is the only source of knowledge concerning God and His purposes at present extant or available in the earth, and that the same ... bush unconsumed and at Sinai, and Who manifested Himself in the Lord Jesus Christ, as the supreme self-existent Deity, the ONE FATHER, dwelling in unapproachable ... That the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth on the earth was necessitated by the position and state into which the human race had been brought by the circumstances ... condemned line of Abraham and David, and who, through wearing their condemned nature, was to obtain a title to resurrection by perfect obedience, and, dying, ... the Jews, was a call to repentance from every evil work, the assertion of his divine sonship and Jewish kingship and the proclamation of the glad tidings that God ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-Chrdelphian.htm
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374: Why Does God Allow Suffering?
Why Does God Allow Suffering? Click to View Click to View see also: Why did God Kill My loved one? The I can remember a lady years ago who gave up her faith in God because her son was killed by a ... The preacher came and said to him, "Son, God knows that, while it is impossible to grow good grain with a drought, it is also impossible to grow good men without a drought. God's object is to grow ... If calamity occurs in our life, it can bring us back to our sense of what is really important and what is not. Diamonds must be treated roughly to make them shine. The more they are cut, pounded and ... that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." ... We stub our toes, cut our fingers, break our legs, catch the flu, get into car accidents. Some things just happen by the very nature of our physical existence. No one is to blame. But if blame is to ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/f-sufferingWhy.htm
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375: Official creed of the Unity/Unitarian Church
God is present throughout creation: in humans, plants, animals, the earth itself, etc. [And, all things are present in God, hence panENtheism... WM] Jesus Christ: Unity rejects the traditional Christian view that Jesus is a deity to be worshipped; we point ... Rather than looking upon heaven as a place "up there" to be experienced as a reward after death, Unity conceives of heaven as expressed by Jesus: "The kingdom of heaven is at hand", and "The kingdom of God is in the midst of (within) you". Charles Fillmore definedit as "a state of consciousness in which the soul and the body are in harmony with Divine ... Thus Satan is not a physical entity; but is one's lower nature: selfishness, greed, the desire to turn away from God. Satan can be resisted by systematically striving towards one's higher nature. Sin: Traditionally, sin has been defined as falling short of perfection. Unity uses an alternate definition: "living under a false sense of separation from God". We view this as a ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/cr-Unity.htm
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376: The Apostolic Fathers believed man-made creeds were tradition ...
... But since there are no extra biblical doctrines, it actually supports our view that all "inspired apostolic tradition" was also contained in scripture. We are not denying "oral apostolic ... For have ye now merely heard that God is Almighty? But ye begin to have him for your father, when ye have been born by the church as your Mother. (Augustine, On the Nicene Creed: a Sermon to the ... persons reading their words honestly, cannot but be reminded by them of the religion towards Christ, announced in divine Scripture" (Athanasius, de Synodis, Part 1, 6) "I follow the laws and rules of the apostles. I ... If any one maintain that I hold any contrary opinion, let him accuse me face to face; let him not slander me in my absence." (Theodoret, letters, 40) Cyril instructs men to memorize the Nicene ... He speaks of how his doctrine is "certified by the full weight of Scripture authority" and is "that exact sense in which Scripture declares". Hilary sure doesn't sound like a Catholic or ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition-5-types-4-creeds.htm
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377: Ancient Synagogues: Qatzion Synagogue and Lintel Dedicatory Inscriptio ...
... After investigations by Kohl and Watzinger, as well as others, the site was abandoned only to be rediscovered in the late 20th century. b. Since the building has not been completely excavated, further investigations are crucial in order to enable well-founded judgments regarding the nature of this structure. ... Columns: Antitype of Christians 5. Artwork: Heart-Shaped Columns 6. The bema: Prototype of the Church Pulpit 7. Synagogue Benches: Metaphor of Equality in Christ 8. Women Seating in Synagogues: Not segregated from men 9. The Moses' Seat: Metaphor of Pride 10. Niches & Ark of The Scrolls: Prototype of Church Apse 11. Table of the Scrolls: Prototype of Communion Table ... Jerusalem 2000 years ago when they believed in Jesus the Nazarene (the branch) as their messiah. It's time to come home! Click here to find a church near you. By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections. Click to View Go to: Main Ancient Synagogue Start Page Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ...
...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Qatzion-ancient-synagogues-first-century-oldest-pre70AD-Jesus-archeology-top-plan-inscription-197ad.htm
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378: Anglo/British Israelism Herbert W. Armstrong REFUTED!
... But MOST Israelites are not Jews, just as most Americans are not Californians (p. 82). Called as the prophet of God; ... and set by the Divine One "over the nations, and over the kingdoms." What! Surely he was not set ... And approximately 90% of all prophecy pertains to our time, now, in this latter half of the 20th century." p3 This contradicts the book of Revelation! This false view is foundational to many of Armstrong's views! First chapter of Revelation: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things ... mean literal sheep, hence they were not literally lost. The expression "lost sheep of the house of Israel" denotes their spiritual condition. F.E Wallace refuted in detail click here "The scriptures plainly tell us that Israel was to lose its identity, its religion, its land, its name. In Deut 32:26, God wanted them through Moses: I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of the to cease from among men." ... ...
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379: Autocephalous Orthodox Churches centered at Constantinople
... A bishop's legitimacy endures only so long as he himself maintains such full communion." (CNEWA) IV Assyrian Church of the East: Thomas Christians Click to View Rev. Abraham Thomas Vazhayil Cor-Episcopa is currently the Administrator of the diocese, which has nine parishes in the USA and Canada. In addition, there are three Catholic Knanaya ... The common element among these churches is their rejection of the christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451), which asserted that Christ is one person in two natures, undivided and unconfused. For them, to say that Christ has two natures was to overemphasize the duality in Christ and to compromise the unity of his person. Yet they reject the classical monophysite position of Eutyches, who held that Christ's humanity was absorbed into his single divine nature. They prefer the formula of St. Cyril of Alexandria, who spoke of "the one incarnate nature of the Word of God" During the period following Chalcedon, those who ... ...
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380: JW: incridible flip-flop of landmark "1914 generation" doctrine
This was done to escape catastrophic failure of their "prophet". The new teaching means that Christ may not come for even 500 more years! If ever there was proof that the ... these words is, beyond question, that which takes a "generation" in the ordinary sense, as at Mark 8:12 and Acts 13:36, or for those who are living at the given period." ... Click to View Generation revised in 1952 to equal 70-80 years The year after 1951, the organization was forced to revise its definition. God came through just in time and gave them "new light"! "Webster's unabridged dictionary gives, in part, this definition of generation: "The average lifetime of ... Generation revised in 1995 (1914 + 80 = 1994) The year after 1994 (the outward limit of the 80 generation position , the organization was forced to revise its definition. ... praise to Jehovah." (Watchtower Nov 1, 1995 p18) "Does our more precise viewpoint on "this generation" mean that Armageddon is further away than we had thought? Not at all! ... ...
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381: Objections to baptism being essential to salvation REFUTED!
Mk 1:5; Mt 3:5-6;4:25 3. Rather than viewing the thief as a sinner coming to first time repentance, could we not view the thief as a former believer who fell away and was restored? 4. Evidence the thief had prior contact with John or Jesus: Knew there was a God V40 Knew God was to be feared v40 Knew Jesus was associated with God ... He was saved before his sins were forgiven: Acts 22:16; 2:38 He was saved before he was born again: Jn 3:3-5 He was saved outside of Christ: Gal 3:27 He was saved ... We are saved by faith only or grace only: Rom 5:1; Eph 2:8 1. We are not saved by grace alone. Not all men will be saved because Jesus died, man must do something. 2. ... "'What does "for" (Greek: "eis") mean in Acts 2:38 "'Passage "'Action "'because of "'in order to "'Result Mt 26:28 blood shed X remission of sin Rom 10:10 Believe X ... If baptism is done away with, then Paul has clearly sinned, or gone beyond divine authority by baptizing anyone. Has Paul separated baptism from the ... ...
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382: The early use of "nomina sacra" indicates a canon was recognized
A conservative, bible believing perspective! God's providence gave us the 27 book New Testament Canon, not the church. God, not men decided the canon. This providence does not mean that church leaders were inspired in their selecting the canon, only that God had his eye on the ... for YHWH in all Old Testament quotations in the New Testament. Examples of Nomina Sacra abbreviations for special words: Jesus Christ Son God Lord Spirit Savior David Cross Mother (with reference to Mary) Father Israel Man Jerusalem Heaven. ... I mention Trobisch's proposal here, as I mentioned above the consensus view that the New Testament canon was in place in the late second century, only to ask how what we discover in Eusebius a century and a half later might challenge ... The fact that early Christian scribes contracted special words from both the Old Testament and the New Testament suggests that they viewed both collections as sacred in the same sense." (Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders, Editors: ... ...
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383: Marriage Self-Evaluation Test at Home for Husbands and Wives ...
Are nagging, bickering or picking general occurrences at your home? Are you in subjection to your husband? Do you place him in the position of leadership? Are you a ... Do you treat his mother (or yours) with disrespect? Are in-laws allowed to interfere or set policies for yout family? How is your sense of humor? Do you laugh ... Click to View Self-Evaluation Sheet For Wives Answer yes or no beside each question, then note the answers that apply to your marriage. Is your husband a better man for marrying you? Do you store up grudges or resentments? Do you resent the submissive role God has selected for you? Is your house generally attractive and in order? ... Do you remain indecisive or blame others when things go wrong? Do you believe women are inferior to men and cannot possibly make important decisions? Do you call your wife ugly names? (Any name she does not like is ugly.) Do you find it hard to say "I love you" (and mean it) every day? Are nagging or bickering general occurrences ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/marriage/f-marriage-self-evaluation-test.htm
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384: Pots and Polities: Material Remains of Late Iron Age Judah in ...
... the term 'cul-ture' in an ethnic sense), and to assume that arbi-trarily defined taxonomic units (i.e., 'cultures') had clear ethnic correlations. Both of these are errors of method." Other scholars express similar views. Mostof the new archaeologists adhere to the opposite point of view, distinguishing completely between ... we choose, but the inference should be avoided that such arbi-trary categories mean anything in terms of 'people' or `societies'."1 During the last decade, the new ... One can draw "time-contour" lines around a site, and define the limit of a system by incorporating factors such as the nature of the economy of that system (Jarman ... Theologically, God gave the land to the peoples (Deut 2:5, 9; 19:14; Josh 1:13; 18:3) and set the borders (Josh 22:25; cf. Ps 104:9). God is also the cause for both ... Then the situation changed, as a result of Sennacherib's campaign. Lachish was ruined and never regained its former position, while Ekron sud-denly became a very ... ...
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385: Scientology is anti-Christian, Satanic and Neo-Gnostic?
In this manner, Scientology binds the minds of its believers, then warehouses their spirits for the remainder of their life. From the Christian point of view, Hubbard's system is evil to the extreme; Scientology is a system of spiritual treadmills away from God. Scientology: Hubbard's anti-Christian teachings! Hear it ... After establishing the origins of Christianity upon the ravings of the mentally ill, Hubbard goes on to deny the existence of Christ, saying instead that all men share the implant of the cross, which is part of R6. Thus, according to Hubbard, ... Peik Stromsholm's study of Click to View Scientology's Gnostic roots Scientology is a Gnostic [gnosis: to know] system in every sense of the word. The material is doled out on The Gradient at steep prices. Each ... To free the soul from its entrapment, the Higher God sent a revealer into this world to inform humans of its divine origin. Those who understand this revelation, this gnosis, are empowered to rise above this world ... ...
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386: Sola Scriptura: The Heretics even quoted scripture!
"Such is their error, such their pestilent teaching; to support it they borrow the words of Scripture, perverting its meaning and using the ignorance of men as their ... Here we see as late as 350 AD, the church realized that the word of God, not tradition, was the source of how to "understand the things of God". But now let us ... Or even simpler, "Be silent heretic, and read the Nicene creed for yourself!" "Such suggestions are inconsistent with the clear sense of Scripture." (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, Book 4, 16) "There is no room for deception; the words of Scripture are clear" (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, Book 4, 32) Click to View ... two agreeing that equality is incompatible either with diversity or with isolation, yet we must seek a fresh support for Our contention from actual words of our Lord. ... But since holy Scripture is of all things most sufficient for us, therefore recommending to those who desire to know more of these matters, to read the Divine word, I ... ...
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387: Carpenter, Edward: The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic Quote: Christianity Trasher Trashes whole of Christianity Carpenter, Edward: The Origins of Pagan and Christian ... Let us take the belief in the coming of a Saviour-god ; and this will be the more suitable as it is a belief which has in the past been commonly held to be distinctive of Christianity. Of course we know now that it is not in any sense distinctive, but, that the long tradition of the Saviour comes down from the remotest times, and perhaps from every country of the world. In The Book of Enoch, written not later than B.C. 170, the Christ is spoken of as already existing in heaven, Even to-day the Arabian lands are always vibrating with prophecies of a coming Mahdi. and about to come as judge of all men, and is definitely called "the Son of Man." The Book of ... However, the flaw in Carpenter's logic is simple: The fact that there was similarity of ideas between major world religions does not mean one borrowed from another ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Carpenter.htm
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388: Morenz, Siegfried: Egyptian Religion
... Jesus no more borrowed from the pagans in Luke 16, (the rich man and Lazarus) any more than apostle John borrowed from the pagans in his view that Jesus was God. Deception Exposed: It is dishonest for JW's not to tell us that Morenz trashes the whole of ... Morenz says "The Trinity is not the only subject- matter at issue here. Also Christology, which is closely linked to it - the doctrine concerning the nature of Christ and especially his pre-existence before the creation and time - revolves around ... The three are mentioned alongside one another in the New Testament, probably for liturgical reasons. But one essential point is still lacking for the Trinity in the proper sense: the concept or notion of such a combination. Indeed, there is ... Characteristically, the Yahvist tale of the three divine beings who called on Abraham at the sacred tree of Mamre does not lead to any effort to resolve the theological problem raised by the presence of three persons; instead the narrator ... ...
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389: Testimony of H. F. Brown Ex-member after 80 years!
Click to View Order Walter Rea's book: "The White Lie" Click to View Tell us if you feel we have misrepresented E.G. White or SDA's Click to View ELDER H. F. BROWN'S Personal Testimony My name is ... There was only occasionally that I would find problems that I wanted them to elucidate to me. As I would talk with these men, great light was lit into my poor darkened little soul. For instance, ... He tells the story that the angels went to the Father to plead that they might die for the human race rather than have Jesus die and that God had said to them, "No, if we would save man, God must die in his stead," and that is a Biblical truth. But there appeared in one of the Adventist magazines at the time a statement by Mrs. White in which she said, "When Christ was crucified it was His human nature ... He was a man that wasn't accustomed to be accosted at all and he looked at me and said, "What do you mean by that?" I said, "Well, Sister White said," and I had the statement in my hands that I ... ...
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390: A discourse concerning trouble of mind, and the disease of melancholly ...
A Discourse Concerning Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholly Timothy Rogers 1691 AD Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage ... "terrors of Conscience", "Anxieties of Soul", "sinking and guilty Fears", "sense of Tormenting", "Racking Pain, the immediate prospect of Death, and together with ... You were pleased to Honour me, during my long Affliction, with your kind Visits; and though I was greatly afflicted, and in degrees beyond what are very common to Men, ... I thought that I should never have any more ease in my pained Body, nor ever any more hope or quiet in my troubled Soul: But that God who is Omnipotent, and who heard your Prayers, and the Prayers of many others in my behalf, hath wrought a double Salvation for me. He who is the Lord of Nature, has healed my Body; and He who ... with a Light Spiritual and Divine; and the loss of her sight was abundantly recompenced to her, by the clearer views which she had of God, and of a Life to come. ... ...
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391: Welcome to the Hamilton church of Christ, in Ontario Canada
Our view of the Bible The Holy Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is the only complete record of God's will for man on earth. It is understandable by the common man by simply reading it. Contained in the pages of the New Testament is a complete record of the first century church. This is the church that Jesus Christ shed his ... Jesus likened the Bible to seed in the parable of the sower. We believe that if anyone plants the pure seed of the word of God, that it will produce exactly the same ... Yet within the Bible there is a wealth of timeless information on every vital subject for personal happiness. The basic needs of men have not changed. Learning from ... Engages in fascinating midweek Bible studies instead of merely having a social hour. We praise our divine savior Jesus Christ our Lord. Our organization: We are an ... We emphasize that going back to the Bible does not mean the establishing of another denomination, but rather a return and restoration to the original church of the ... ...
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392: Marriage Self-Evaluation Test at Home for Husbands and Wives ...
Are nagging, bickering or picking general occurrences at your home? Are you in subjection to your husband? Do you place him in the position of leadership? Are you a ... Do you treat his mother (or yours) with disrespect? Are in-laws allowed to interfere or set policies for yout family? How is your sense of humor? Do you laugh ... Click to View Self-Evaluation Sheet For Wives Answer yes or no beside each question, then note the answers that apply to your marriage. Is your husband a better man for marrying you? Do you store up grudges or resentments? Do you resent the submissive role God has selected for you? Is your house generally attractive and in order? ... Do you remain indecisive or blame others when things go wrong? Do you believe women are inferior to men and cannot possibly make important decisions? Do you call your wife ugly names? (Any name she does not like is ugly.) Do you find it hard to say "I love you" (and mean it) every day? Are nagging or bickering general occurrences ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/f-marriage-self-evaluation-test.htm
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393: Messianic Bible Prophecy Fulfilled: Psalm 68 "He descended and ...
... Bashan" (Mt. Hermon) in Ps 68:15, 29. Although King Og is not named it is this conquest story that David has in view. Moses defeated Og who is ruler of Mt. Hermon and the land of Bashan all of which was given as a "gift" to ... the day of Pentecost AD 33 in Acts 2. These gifts were initially given to only the 12 apostles, then through the laying on of the apostle's hands (Acts 8:18; 19:6), they were individually transmitted to Christian men and women. ... Most surprising is Paul's inspired commentary in classic Midrashic style, by inferring Christ descended before he ascended. While this includes His incarnation by descending from heaven, giving up equality with God, and becoming a man (Phil 2:6-9) the language includes the death of Christ where he descended ... Therefore it says, "When He ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, And He gave gifts to men." (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Psalm-68-triple-messianic-bible-prophecy-Midrashic-Moses-David-Christ-Sinai-Jerusalem-heaven-ascension-second-coming.htm
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394: 100 Sabbath keeper stumper questions.
Sabbatarians will be up all night, unable to rest on the sabbath, trying to solve truth problems. Click to View Stumper Questions Sabbatarians don't like to be asked! Amazing ... together on the Sabbath day as a church or prayer meeting after the resurrection of Christ? 7. Why is there no command in the New Testament for Christians to keep the Sabbath ... and saw the 4th commandment glowing brighter than all the rest? 19. If the current position of the Seventh-day Adventist church is that the change from Saturday to Sunday took place in 140 AD, doesn't that mean that they have come a long way from Whites 325 AD and have only 40 more years to ... Lev 23:2; Ex 20:9; 31:17 28. If the 10 commandments remain but the book of law was abolished, then why did God put two copies of the 10 commandments in the book of the law? Ex ... Lk 20:34-35 36. If the Sabbath was given to all men, why were Gentiles called "strangers". Why were Gentiles outside the gates not required to keep the Sabbath? Ex 20:10. 37. ... ...
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395: A treatise of melancholie, Timothy Bright, 1586 AD
Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1586 AD, Timothy Bright, doctor and priest, viewed that the spirit could make the body sick and the body could ... temporall uses, but of the whole nature soule and body cut of from the life of God, and from the sweet influence of his favour, the fountaine of all happines and eternall felicity." (A treatise of melancholie, Timothy Bright, 1586 AD) "This was the first treatise by an English physician on mental illness and being addressed to men 'not ignorant of good letters' was intended as a scientific contribution. ... affection thereof, to be subject to the phisicians hand, not considering herein any thing divine, and above the ordinarie events, and naturall course of thinges : but have esteemed the ... In the other, the inward sense and outward to feebled, the fancy overtaken with gastly fumes of melancholy, and the whole force of the spirite closed up in the dungion of melancholy darkenes, ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-of-melancholie-timothy-bright-1586ad.htm
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396: Apostle Paul never kept the sabbath, certainly not 84 times as ...
Acts 18:4,11 "And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath." ... "And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them." 78 Grand total ... Acts 2:1-38 Paul also rushed to get back to Jerusalem on Pentecost: Acts 20:16 Pentecost always fell on a Sunday Does this mean he was keeping Pentecost feast? No! It provided him a great opportunity to teach. No where after the resurrection "keeping the Sabbath according to the commandment" Click to View Adventist False Argument #3: "In Acts 18:4, Paul's custom was to worship on the Sabbath with Greeks. This proves it was not a Jewish worship service but a Christ centered worship service ... They will certainly hear that you have come. "Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; take them and purify yourself along with them, ... In a very real sense it was the Jewish non-Christians who refused to heed Jesus who were in fact REJECTING WHAT MOSES SAID! Click to View We Speak truth in LOVE "you ... ...
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397: Ministers Fellowship International (MFI)
... We refer to this as team ministry or an "eldership" form of government with a senior pastor or chief elder. This is a form of government that involves equality and headship which is modeled in ... God's purpose is to make all people into one for the glory of God. Church Planting and World Missions. We believe that the Church has been given the commission by Christ to go into the entire world with the message of the Kingdom in an attempt to bring all men to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We also believe that the result of this mission should be the establishing of local churches in every community ... MFI provides a structure and a context where these meaningful relationships can be cultivated, but it is up to each member along with the MFI leadership to sense a personal responsibility for ... If an organization has the power to ordain someone, it also has the power to decommission them and thus control that ministry. MFI holds the view that ordination is the specific function of the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/cr-ministers-fellowship-international.htm
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398: The Pattern of Congregational Benevolence in the New Testament
society" or "sponsoring church". Click on photo for high resolution: Click to View C. For the saints, not for non-Christians, without exception, establishing a ... A. It is a violation of the Bible pattern to give money from the church treasury to non-Christians. 1. Christ commanded individual Christians to help non-Christians ... They argue that giving money from the treasury is for "all men" and not restricted to "saints only" (Members of a local church) B. But we can actually prove treasury money is restricted to Christians with two passages: James 1:27 and 1 Tim 5:3-16. James 1:27 This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, ... The reason liberal minded and institutional churches argue against the "saints only" position, is because they simply do not want to abide within what the Bible says, ... Never once is the church as a collective even mentioned. There is no logical reason to force "we" and "us" to mean "collective church action" when the natural reading ... ...
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399: 500 Flood stories prove Noah's Ark is real history: Epic of Gilgamesh ...
Click to View Colophonal scribal markings date the tablet to Ammi-saduqa (1647-1626 BC) Click to View "Enlil grew restless at their racket, he had to listen to their noise. Enlil opened his ... The dichotomous nature of man was clearly understood by the ancient Babylonians and they needed some way to explain it. In making man, one of the lower gods was first cleansed with water by ... Here we have the solution of creating man to lighten the load of the lower gods, actually creates a new problem that disturbs the higher gods. 4. In almost a whim, Enlil, the highest god, decides to kill all the men off so ... Enki refuses to take the oath to carry out the plan to send the flood that other gods had made to Enlil. Enki says that he doesn't even know what a flood is, which would mean a global flood was ... Contrast this with the loving selfless God of the Bible who sent His son, Jesus Christ to save man when man was worthless (Romans 5:8-10). Also contrast the dependency of pagan gods on man for ... ...
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400: Christ fulfilled then abolished the 10 commandments
Click to View Sabbath Keepers always misquote Matthew 5:17 as a proof text, that the Sabbath will endure as long as the earth stands. Matthew 5:17-18 "Think not that ... Adventists take the incredible position that Jesus did not fulfill the law! Sabbatarians also press the expression, "not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law" as ... Lk 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. Ro ... None of the Law of Moses did fail! Christ fulfilled it 100%, then he nailed it to the cross! Col 2:14-16 E. Ask any Sabbatarian these simple questions: Why did Jesus ... takes place a change of law also" Lk 24:25-26 And He said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! "Was it not ... H. Sabbatarians argue that "fulfill" does not mean "end" as they quote: Matthew 3:15 "for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." They say, ... ...
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