It must be acknowledged that many of these texts are but fragments of chapters or even of verses. This enormous mass of manuscripts is still but imperfectly studied, and some copies are scarcely known except as figuring in the catalogues. The great uncials themselves are not yet all collated,...
The Baptist writer claims that “the goal of pursuing purity in worship and doctrine is admirable,” but that such effort constitutes a “flawed approach” of Bible handling. So after all is said and done, those who are trying to be Christians in the various denominations and who are trying...
; and this it does very properly, for if purity of doctrine and life is to be maintained, it must always be a mark of a true Church that there be discipline. But inasmuch as it is impossible to discern always who are inwardly pure, and also perfectly to enforce discipline, the visible...
Unlike most men, Strachan and his ilk elevate the attitude Frye describes to a holy command: For them, Imitating Men and Not Learning from Women are backed up by how they understand obscure Bible verses. Seethis Tweetof his: God has staked everything on men. Strong men are the foundation ...
You have to make them focus on the verses that they like to steam roll over with their systematics. Otherwise you just end up in a systematic slinging contest from different traditions and that’s no fun. This one just gives the reader an example of a conversation with random baptist of ...
SEE SEED. The design of these prescriptions was doubtless to effect a still greater distinction between the chosen people of God and the heathen, who practiced all these and other sorts of promiscuous unions, and also to engender and cultivate a nicer sense of propriety and purity in the ...
Verses 7-8: A Call for Deliverance and Victory David calls on God to rise and deliver him, using battle imagery to describe God’s power over his enemies. He ends the psalm with a declaration that salvation belongs to the Lord, and he asks for God’s blessing upon His people: ...
This verse makes it clear that we must have a spirit of dependence on God – even if we are not consciously speaking to Him, we always must have a deep dependence on Him that truly is without ceasing. There are other verses that show Paul using similar language as 1 Thess. 5:17. (...
While we have not, that I know of, any such interpolation or corruption made in any one of them by either the Eusebians or Arians." For additional historical documentation on the insertion of Trinitarian verses into the text of the scriptures, see The Adoption Of The Trinity....
We should not be surprised when those who consider this world their home engage in political battles in an effort to maintain their nation’s “purity.” However, those who know they are just “passing through” on this earth should welcome the stranger when he knocks at their door. Not on...