Sixth, going back to the matter of definition, when an alien sinner actually repents of stealing prior to his scriptural baptism, since it is not the definition of stealing that changes (and it is not), then it has to be that his relationship to the act changes. He no longer steals!
Before presenting the letters, let us first take a look at how we got here; how the doctrine we currently teach and practice was developed. It is a story of two opposing views of scripture on the subject of Divine Healing: the view of D.S. Warner, the reformer and founder of the Eve...
sets forth the mode of its existence, but what exists is not indicated by this phrase. If one were to ask a husbandman about a tree, whether it were planted or had grown of itself, and he were to answer either that the tree had not been planted or that it was the result of ...
The first mention of the vine in Scripture occurs in, Ge 9:20: "And Noah began to be a husbandman and he planted a vineyard." Many are of opinion that wine was not unknown before the Deluge, and that the patriarch only continued to cultivate the ville after that event as he had ...
Cain was a husbandman, and Abel a keeper of sheep. The former is a settled, the latter an unsettled mode of life. Hence we find that Cain, when the murder of his brother constrained him to wander abroad, built a town in the land where he settled. At the same time, doubtless, those...