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In biblical times, sharing a meal was a sign of fellowship and trust. This call to "taste" implies that God's goodness is not just to be known intellectually but experienced personally. The goodness of the LORD is a recurring theme in Scripture, seen in passages like Exodus 34:6-7, ...
but a whole collection of them, which only the incorrigibly perverse could hope to explain away. A minor classic on the traditionalist side was M. Horbery'sAn Enquiry into the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Duration of Future Punishment, first published...
When you apply this definition in relationship to God, the two meanings we mentioned earlier remain. However, there is one more that needs to be added to the mix. Let me give you three examples in Scripture to help clarify. 1. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim...
my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory." That is his "writing;" it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a "Book."...
John 7:37-38 “Let anyone who is thirsty, come to Me and drink. Whosoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of Living Water will flow from within them.” In less than a week, despite the pandemic, Jesus led us to a local Pastor who willingly became our hands and feet...
The narrow vessel of our heart can no more contain the boundless and bottomless ocean of the Divine fulness, than our weak intellectual eye can drink-in the glorious light of that knowledge. And yet there are many such expressions in the holy scripture. Thus Moses "saw him that was i...
when to rain. He even guides the clouds. Other Scripture also speaks of God’s immediate control: “He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His ...
God our Father offers discipline as the highest form of love. He said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable…for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16 ). Not only do we receive reproof and correction through the Word of...
He was a redeemer of God’s own choosing, and therefore he is called in Scripture, God’s elect (Isa. 42:1). The wisdom of choosing this person to be the redeemer, appears in his being every way a fit person for this undertaking. It was necessary that the person that is the ...