by Thomas WatsonQ3: What do the Scriptures principally teach?A: The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God
Once for all, I say unto you, a soul cannot be brought into the kingdom, if it be without the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Light.” And when properly understood, the finding and discovery of self is the primary objective of all scriptures (see An Inconvenient Truth). And when we ...
-- The Chasm of Fire: A Woman's Experience With the Teachings of a Sufi Master. -- The Christian Kabbalah: Jewish Mystical Books and Their Christian Interpreters. -- The Cipher of Genesis: The Original Code of the Qabala As Applied to the Scriptures. -- The Cloud of Unknowing and the...
We should expect God to speak to us through visions and prophetic dreams, so the barefoot dream can suggest biblically that we need to embrace change and not cover up problems in order to stay on the straight path of life. More than 50 Scriptures have references to God sending visions or ...
That the people of Acts 2 had faith is certain because the scriptures say the message "pricked their heart." They would not have asked Peter what to do if they did not believe the message. They had the essential quality of faith that every person wanting to be saved must have (John 8...
While the Creed does not replace the intricate weaving of letters, history and poetry that the scriptures hold, it is a basic guide to the substance of the Biblical story. In the early days of the church, and today in many places where the church is only beginning to emerge, illiterate ...
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others. —Mark the Evangelist 41 What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross? —Martin Luther ...
would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures. —Christopher ...
In the Hebrew Scriptures, sacrifices offered to God were described as a "pleasing aroma" (e.g., Genesis 8:21, Leviticus 1:9). This metaphor suggests that believers, through their lives and testimonies, are like a fragrant offering to God. It implies that our lives should be lived in ...
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. —George Muller 172 I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not...