created humanity. Having been created in God’s own image, human beings were special amongst all of God’s creations. God’s purpose for humanity is to glorify Him in everything.“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them....
ROMANS 1 1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4and who through the Spiri...
“Hearing” in this passage is more than a casual hearing. It’s hearing with a desire to understand and apply what we’ve heard. That desire to understand will drive us to study the Scriptures, pray for understanding, and seek out truth. The phrase “more will be given” reminds us th...
Aside from the problems with individual texts, there's also the obvious issue that the very presence of multiple scriptures negates the authenticity of any single religious document. It's impossible for every religious book to be true; it's highly presumptuous to assume that one's own p...
1. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are, in part and in whole, a verbal revelation from God through the words of men, being infallibly true regarding all that they teach on any subject. See #4 below. Jesus MySavior ...
These ancient scriptures, compiled into The Book of Mormon, were protected by God for a couple thousand years, to be brought forth at a specific time, and it’s very clear why. We need them. We need the warnings. We need the hope. And, we need the knowledge of how to spiritually su...
that God wrote the Bible through Man. Man was inspired to create the Scriptures from God through the influence of the Holy Spirit; Scripture was not created by any human being, rather it was translated by God through the Holy Spirit to Man (2 Pet. 1:20-21 New International Version). “...
This idea comes from 1 Peter 1:12 and a few other verses which seem to indicate that one reason God created humanity and is carrying out His redemptive plan is to teach something to the angels. Nobody really knows what God might be trying to teach the angels that they don’t already ...
The apostle Peter declared that“Christ died for sins, once for all”(1 Peter 3:18). The apostle Paul reminded us that“Christ died for our sins, according to Scriptures”(1 Corinthians 15:3). Why did Jesus have to die for our sins? We all have sinned, and the consequence is death...
We want to encourage her to search the Scriptures and seek the Lord for his guidance as she embarks on this exciting time of life. I don’t see that being very easy if the father has ultimate control and the daughter no input. Those, for me, are man’s rules, and not God’s ...