Those who do not believe in God of course will not search for Him and even for those who believe it will require their best effort. The idea that God will accept just anyone for eternity with Him is something that the scriptures oppose and since God cannot lie it should be a concern. ...
Buddhism might be the least violent, but then there are the Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses…. Christians might have the most material wealth overall, but that seems like it might be contrary to their own scriptures…. Jews seem to have survived as a people for a long time despite facing ...
and we know the dangers of comfort and futility–we are warned of these things in our Scriptures. The Christian path is one which fights against this futility and points to the one true Hope: that of our savior.
Luke 24.13-49: The meaning of the Sacred Scriptures was a preoccupation of Luke’s Gospel from the start. It was the burden of Jesus’ first sermon at the synagogue in Nazareth, when he gave his own reading of the Book of Isaiah. It was the subject of Jesus conversation with Moses and...
Regardless of your spiritual background or current view, please read the Scriptures and principles presented below with a prayerful and open mind. Scriptures Favorable View of Age and Gray Hair “Thou shalt rise up before the hoary (gray) head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear...
In the New Testament Scriptures there is a fuller development of redemptive truth, but one God speaks in both dispensations, and what He speaks agrees with what He is. Wherever and whenever God appears to men, He acts like Himself. Whether in the Garden of Eden or the Garden of Gethsemane...
This has always been one of my favorite Scriptures about God’s forgiveness. Today I truly feel that my sins have been cast into the depths of the sea. What has moved me the most in approaching Confession is that it’s known as aSacrament of Healing. I don’t know what I thought it...
Many of Barbeyrac's arguments and quotations are taken from our old Puritan writers, who admitted that a kind of gambling, under the designation of lots, was sanctioned by the Scriptures; though only to be used to decide matters connected with religion and the church. The able authoress of...
I’m archiving an English translation of theWuzhi pianbyThomas Clearly, with explanations by the Qing-era Daoist scholarLiu Yiming(1734-1821). Fig. 1 – A print of Zhang Boduan (a.k.a. Zhang Ziyang,張紫陽)from the Ming-eraTraces of Immortals and Buddhas(Xianfo jizong, 仙佛奇蹤) (lar...
It makes sense to assume the rest of the Scriptures are equally accurate, since there is no evidence to the contrary and all the available evidence supports Scripture. Assessment: Where are we going with all this? The Bible’s accuracy is not limited to history, geography, science or medicine...