why do people not see the bible alike?
... different in character from the others and one that grows out of a more generally recognized human weakness, casts its misleading shadows nevertheless. It is the wide disparity between Christian theory and practice. There are not only too many people who are failing to practice what they preach, but ...
... different in character from the others and one that grows out of a more generally recognized human weakness, casts its misleading shadows nevertheless. It is the wide disparity between Christian theory and practice. There are not only too many people who are failing to practice what they preach, but ...
West Alliance Membership Manual
... God is already at work in the world. Becoming a Christian is about joining HisStory regarding God’s work in the world. A Christian is not just somebody who prays a certain prayer; a Christian is a person whose world and life-view have been shaped by what God has already accomplished for us. Doctrine ...
... God is already at work in the world. Becoming a Christian is about joining HisStory regarding God’s work in the world. A Christian is not just somebody who prays a certain prayer; a Christian is a person whose world and life-view have been shaped by what God has already accomplished for us. Doctrine ...
Is Calvinism Biblical? • (pdf format) - Bible
... “We are converted little by little to God, and by stages.”7 Clearly, Calvin did not accept conversion as an event in one’s life in which one becomes a believer and is at that moment born again. Rather he described his conversion as a gradual evolution towards God. This element in his life casts a sh ...
... “We are converted little by little to God, and by stages.”7 Clearly, Calvin did not accept conversion as an event in one’s life in which one becomes a believer and is at that moment born again. Rather he described his conversion as a gradual evolution towards God. This element in his life casts a sh ...
Anselm`s Fool
... Of course, Anselm needn’t have recruited some person, real or imagined, to deny God’s existence. He could have just said, on his own behalf, “Suppose: God doesn’t exist.” But enlisting the aid of the Fool makes the reductio more dramatic. Moreover, since the whole Proslogion is in the literary form ...
... Of course, Anselm needn’t have recruited some person, real or imagined, to deny God’s existence. He could have just said, on his own behalf, “Suppose: God doesn’t exist.” But enlisting the aid of the Fool makes the reductio more dramatic. Moreover, since the whole Proslogion is in the literary form ...
61-0207 Expectation - William Branham Storehouse
... would've wanted to say anything, He'd have told him while he was talking to him. But God has ways of doing things. You have to come God's ways and God's means of doing things. As long as we try to get in it ourself, then it won't work. And we just can't pattern after one another; we've got to live i ...
... would've wanted to say anything, He'd have told him while he was talking to him. But God has ways of doing things. You have to come God's ways and God's means of doing things. As long as we try to get in it ourself, then it won't work. And we just can't pattern after one another; we've got to live i ...
63-0428 Look - Living Word Broadcast
... For Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself oft, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others; For the ...
... For Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself oft, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others; For the ...
George Whitefield. - Evangelical Tracts
... minished. Churchwardens, who had no eyes for drunkenness and impurity, were filled with intense indignation about what they called “breaches of order.” Bishops, who could tolerate Arianism, Socinianism, and Deism, were filled with indignation at a man who declared fully the atonement of Christ and ...
... minished. Churchwardens, who had no eyes for drunkenness and impurity, were filled with intense indignation about what they called “breaches of order.” Bishops, who could tolerate Arianism, Socinianism, and Deism, were filled with indignation at a man who declared fully the atonement of Christ and ...
The Waters Above, the Firmament, and the Genesis Gap
... based on how we interpret wording. I realize you are very much more qualified than myself to make an accurate judgement on anything language related. That leads me to a tangent question of how to go about learning Greek, and especially ancient Hebrew? In the case of Hebrew, I believe (I may be wron ...
... based on how we interpret wording. I realize you are very much more qualified than myself to make an accurate judgement on anything language related. That leads me to a tangent question of how to go about learning Greek, and especially ancient Hebrew? In the case of Hebrew, I believe (I may be wron ...
Volume 22, Number 2 Fall 2011
... That command is consistent with what the apostle had earlier explained to Timothy about the qualifications for spiritual leadership. In 1 Tim 3:2, Paul noted that—in addition to numerous moral and spiritual qualifications— overseers and pastors must possess one universal skill: the ability to teach. ...
... That command is consistent with what the apostle had earlier explained to Timothy about the qualifications for spiritual leadership. In 1 Tim 3:2, Paul noted that—in addition to numerous moral and spiritual qualifications— overseers and pastors must possess one universal skill: the ability to teach. ...
full text pdf
... that all their writings were scholastic. Especially those in the vernacular often were not. We can see this, for instance, in their confessional writings. Thus Beza’s personal and quite extensive Confession de la foy chrestienne (Confession of the Christian Faith), first published in 1559 and later ...
... that all their writings were scholastic. Especially those in the vernacular often were not. We can see this, for instance, in their confessional writings. Thus Beza’s personal and quite extensive Confession de la foy chrestienne (Confession of the Christian Faith), first published in 1559 and later ...
Christian-Walk.teacher - Free Sunday School Lessons
... Is it possible for a Christian to live according to the flesh? In certain ways, yes, at least temporarily. Scriptural admonitions not to live according to the flesh would be meaningless otherwise. Anytime we behave according to the lusts of the “old man” instead of the godly inclinations of the “new ...
... Is it possible for a Christian to live according to the flesh? In certain ways, yes, at least temporarily. Scriptural admonitions not to live according to the flesh would be meaningless otherwise. Anytime we behave according to the lusts of the “old man” instead of the godly inclinations of the “new ...
ii. trustful surrender to divine providence
... But the works of God are perfect it is written in the Canticle of Moses. 6 They are so well done that God Himself, whose judgment is strict and righteous, found when He had created them that they were good and very good. 7 It is quite obvious that He who hath founded the earth by wisdom and hath est ...
... But the works of God are perfect it is written in the Canticle of Moses. 6 They are so well done that God Himself, whose judgment is strict and righteous, found when He had created them that they were good and very good. 7 It is quite obvious that He who hath founded the earth by wisdom and hath est ...
Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton
... argument and analytical demonstration formerly not contemplated at all. The new age of reason required finding a language and aesthetics for expressing in the new modes of thought the distinctive modes of thought and argument that now concerned them – a new way of setting forth the results of a new ...
... argument and analytical demonstration formerly not contemplated at all. The new age of reason required finding a language and aesthetics for expressing in the new modes of thought the distinctive modes of thought and argument that now concerned them – a new way of setting forth the results of a new ...
fight for your destiny - Claude et Julia Payan
... only dreaming anyway”, and then you let doubt come into your mind. Have you let yourself get discouraged? Have you tried many projects but are still searching for direction in your life? You feel like you don’t know what you want sometimes. If that’s so, it’s perhaps that your motivations are confus ...
... only dreaming anyway”, and then you let doubt come into your mind. Have you let yourself get discouraged? Have you tried many projects but are still searching for direction in your life? You feel like you don’t know what you want sometimes. If that’s so, it’s perhaps that your motivations are confus ...
Introduction
... Tongues and interpretation of tongues are both spoken forth. The Word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, and the discerning of spirits are all powerless without words being spoken or communicated. The gift of faith, the working of miracles and the gifts of healings cannot operate without words. You c ...
... Tongues and interpretation of tongues are both spoken forth. The Word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, and the discerning of spirits are all powerless without words being spoken or communicated. The gift of faith, the working of miracles and the gifts of healings cannot operate without words. You c ...
Noah and the Universal Flood: Part I Events Leading to the Deluge
... spirits but to a judgment on mankind. d) The idea that demons came down to earth and assumed human form with genitalia and the full ability to produce children is ludicrous and unscriptural. While it is true that holy angels often appear to the saints as men (e.g., Gen. 18:1-22; 19:1ff), there are n ...
... spirits but to a judgment on mankind. d) The idea that demons came down to earth and assumed human form with genitalia and the full ability to produce children is ludicrous and unscriptural. While it is true that holy angels often appear to the saints as men (e.g., Gen. 18:1-22; 19:1ff), there are n ...
The teaching of Christ and the Antichrist in the thought of Matthias
... religious sense. Some medieval theologians who were persecuted by the Catholic Church, as well as most of the Reformers, identified the Antichrist with individual popes or with the papacy in general. However, all those identifications proved to be incorrect, says Grudem, and it is possible that on t ...
... religious sense. Some medieval theologians who were persecuted by the Catholic Church, as well as most of the Reformers, identified the Antichrist with individual popes or with the papacy in general. However, all those identifications proved to be incorrect, says Grudem, and it is possible that on t ...
99 Anniversaries and Types
... Professor Simon Greenleaf was one of the most eminent lawyers of all time. His “Laws of Evidence” for many years were accepted by all States in the United States as the standard methodology for evaluating cases. He was teaching law at a university in the United States when one of his students asked ...
... Professor Simon Greenleaf was one of the most eminent lawyers of all time. His “Laws of Evidence” for many years were accepted by all States in the United States as the standard methodology for evaluating cases. He was teaching law at a university in the United States when one of his students asked ...
From Slavery to Freedom
... have always loved horses. My older brother got a horse when I was seven, but by the time I was old enough to ride on my own, the novelty had worn off for my brother, and to my dismay, my parents sold the horse. Whenever I mentioned my desire to get a horse of my own, their response was always: “We t ...
... have always loved horses. My older brother got a horse when I was seven, but by the time I was old enough to ride on my own, the novelty had worn off for my brother, and to my dismay, my parents sold the horse. Whenever I mentioned my desire to get a horse of my own, their response was always: “We t ...
Discipleship Manual
... life what it means to be a true follower of Jesus. Jesus, Luke 9:18: And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him. Jesus, Luke 11:1: Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, T ...
... life what it means to be a true follower of Jesus. Jesus, Luke 9:18: And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him. Jesus, Luke 11:1: Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, T ...
Charisma Versus Charismania
... In Genesis 1:1 we read, "In the beginning God" The Hebrew word translated "God" is Elohim, which is plural for El (God in the singular). In Hebrew there is a x singular, dual, and plural tense. "God" in the singular is El, in the dual is Elah, and in the plural is Elohim. There can be no denying tha ...
... In Genesis 1:1 we read, "In the beginning God" The Hebrew word translated "God" is Elohim, which is plural for El (God in the singular). In Hebrew there is a x singular, dual, and plural tense. "God" in the singular is El, in the dual is Elah, and in the plural is Elohim. There can be no denying tha ...
1 Corinthians》(Charles H. Spurgeon)
... station of life; if God has called you to your peculiar work and warfare, he will not send you at your own charges, but he will be at the back of you, and support you even to the end. I think it is for this reason that Paul so constantly dwells upon his own calling when he is about to write to the ...
... station of life; if God has called you to your peculiar work and warfare, he will not send you at your own charges, but he will be at the back of you, and support you even to the end. I think it is for this reason that Paul so constantly dwells upon his own calling when he is about to write to the ...
Commentary in Word Format
... heaven to earth and back up to heaven again. God opened a way that heaven might rule over earth. The Jews were chosen as the channel by which God would fulfill His purpose. We must remember that the theocracy established by God with the nation of Israel was a shadow of that future day when heaven wo ...
... heaven to earth and back up to heaven again. God opened a way that heaven might rule over earth. The Jews were chosen as the channel by which God would fulfill His purpose. We must remember that the theocracy established by God with the nation of Israel was a shadow of that future day when heaven wo ...
{66} Revelation - TheWordNotes.com
... shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some you will suffer: look, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and of you into prison, that you may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou you will have tribulation ten days; be faithful faithful unto death ...
... shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some you will suffer: look, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and of you into prison, that you may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou you will have tribulation ten days; be faithful faithful unto death ...
THE VINDICATION OF IMPUTATION
... Jesus.10 In other words, he is talking about sanctification without deploying the a#gioj or #$wdq word groups. So the scholar deeply committed to exegetical rigor might well insist that Paul never, or only rarely, talks about sanctification in a progressive sense; the systematician, by contrast, mig ...
... Jesus.10 In other words, he is talking about sanctification without deploying the a#gioj or #$wdq word groups. So the scholar deeply committed to exegetical rigor might well insist that Paul never, or only rarely, talks about sanctification in a progressive sense; the systematician, by contrast, mig ...