Reread the 4th commandment and you will see that there is nothing in the commandment about which day to worship. It does not say to Remember the 7th Day to worship……Worship can occur on any day. It is not limited to only one day a week. The commandment is to “keep it holy” or...
What has been said implies that Scripture does not refer to any single book, but comprises a number of books written at different times and by different writers working under the inspiration of theHoly Ghost. Hence the question, how could such a collection be made, and how was it made in...
This does not mean that only trained scholars can study the Bible to any profit. Its central message is so plainly stated in the text that the most unlearned of those who have ears to hear and eyes to see can understand it. “The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts ...
yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts ...
The term, Son of Man is used in Scripture of Jesus 83 times in the gospels. On first glance, you’d think it refers to His humanity. But we know that Jesus was not the son of a man, as He had no human father. Lu. 4:23 “…being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph…” Th...
You cannot even think that you are being called to learn what you can from the new clergyman instead of looking for cutting ways to teach him a few lessons on what happens when he treats people that way. If you are called to do anything, it’s to criticize him behind his back and ...
Doubt and unbelief starts early in scripture. It takes only 3 chapters before they appear in very clear language. Adam and Eve succumbed quickly and apparently easily when they believed Satan and disobeyed a clear command of God. “Then theLordGod took the man and put him in the garden of...
1 John 3:2 – Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. Proverbs 19:21 – Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of ...
believing that it will be a very great benefit to the souls, for whom the supplication is put up, while that holy and most awful sacrifice is set forth. And I wish to persuade you by an illustration. For I know that many say, what is a soul profited, which departs from this world...
However, they may also profit from the holiness of a sacred space in a ‘parasitic’ manner. They are markers and guardians of the border between sacred and profane space, but they can also negate it and make it permeable.9 Last but not least, inscriptions can underline and strengthen...