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Compare"The Father is loving the Son and has given all into His hand. He who is believing in the Son has life eonian, yet he who is stubborn as to the Son shall not be seeing life, but the indignation of God is remaining on him." (Jh 3:35,36) with God locks up all together in stubbornness, that He should be merciful to all. (Ro 11:36) Stubbornness. How often do we encounter people who are

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Doesn't it seem sometimes that the ten commandments form the bedrock of Christianity? The first thing some people come up with when they hear about the bible or Christianity is exactly that portion of scripture in Ex 20:1-17, or at least some bits of it. But what if these words are not part of today's dealings of God with humanity. What if the ten commandments are not for the believers today, but

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By quoting just a few scriptures, the teaching of the trinity can easily be disproved. I will quote five passages, and, if at all necessary, write a short comment to each. We should accept the simple words of scripture, instead of philosophizing around them. I am quoting from the Concordant Literal New Testament. John 5:36-38 Jesus speaks out: "Now I have a testimony greater than John's. For the

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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. (Job 42:7, KJV) The book of Job is one of those literary works that deserves close attention. Reading it and believing the parts that pleased God is

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A brother in the faith claimed that Paul calls us believers His bride or wife. This, he said, was in addition to the ecclesia (church--the out called lot of believers today) being called the body of Christ. He founded his argument on Eph 5:22-33, and especially on verse 32. But if we look at the passage closely, at best accurately translated, we will soon find out that Paul does not use the

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/082543601X/sr=1-1/qid=1156419031/ref=sr_1_1/002-5108174-0736800?ie=UTF8&s=booksCheck out this link. It is 'Rotherham's Emphasized Bible' on Amazon.com. Scroll down to the 9th review of Nathaniel Merritt and read it! He's got it right on the spot. Rotherham's is already an accurate translation, as it appears, I have never put my hands on it, but the CV goes way

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Jesus declares: "All was given up to Me by My Father. And no one is recognizing the Son except the Father; neither is anyone recognizing the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son should be intending to unveil Him." (Mt 11:27, CV) Have we done anything for our knowledge of the Father? None at all. It was Jesus Himself who unveiled the Father to us, He intended it in the first place, we

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A Davidic Psalm 1 Do save, O Yahweh, for the benign one has reached an end,  For the faithful ones have disappeared  from the sons of humanity; 2 They speak hypocrisy, each one with his associate; With a lip of slick words,  with a double-minded heart they speak. 3 May Yahweh cut off all lips of slick words, The tongue speaking great things: 4 Who say, With our tongue we shall have mastery; Our

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The soul is not immortal. A further fact that helps to establish this truth is the coming into existence of the soul by spirit. The account of the forming of humanity in Genesis 2 gives us an enlightening view of it: And forming is Yahweh Alueim the human of soil from the ground, and He is blowing into his nostrils the breath of the living, and becoming is the human a living soul. (v.7) Note that

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Is the soul immortal? Christianity would say 'yes, of course', and I believe too many believers would chime in. This view, however, is far from the truth. The sacred scriptures do not in any place testify to us that our soul lives on after we die. There is an ample number of passages that speak of the soul dying. Here is just a selection of the many: 'and live may my soul' (Gen 12:13, Abram was

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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. (Job 42:7, KJV)  This is after the long dialogues between Job and his friends, and the final replies by God to Job. Simply put, we learn, directly from

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At that season, answering, Jesus said,"I am acclaiming Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hidest these things from the wiseand intelligent and Thou dost reveal them to minors. Yea, Father, seeing that thus it became a delight in front of Thee. (Mt 11:25,26, CLV)A lord has authority over something, be it slaves or a piece of land. Whatever the lord pleases he may do with whatever he

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THE GOD OF CHRISTENDOM God, in the beginning, created a perfect Angel called the "Anointed Cherub" whose name was Lucifer. This perfect Angel one day fell in sin, and became a devil, ruining much of God's universe, and is the cause of all sin and evil, and also the cause of ruin and sin in other perfect angels, now called demons. Author's note: This reminds one of a man who invents a machine or

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To Moses He (God) is saying, "I shall be merciful to whomever I may be merciful, and I shall be pitying whomever I may be pitying." Consequently, then, it is not of him who is willing, nor of him who is racing, but of God, the Merciful. (Rom 9:15,16) A friend of mine, yesterday, said I would think too logical in respect to God. We talked about believers and unbelievers, and God's responsibility.

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"Suppose that Christ commanded that we love our enemies and love our neighbor even as we love ourselves because such love is an essential condition of blessedness or supreme happiness.  If this is true, as I believe it is, then God could not possibly bring blessedness to one person without also bringing it to all.Here is why. If I truly love my daughter even as I love myself, then her interests

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For you mac and scripture buffs out there: I found a nifty software that will really enhance your bible studies.http://www.accordancebible.com/It is incredible what they have included in it. Go and check it out! At some point, I will own a copy of this exciting aid to dig still deeper into the sacred scriptures.

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I read a passage today that illustrates how God, or, to be more precise, the divine, the invisible of whom Jesus is the image, how He dealt with Israel in the past. If we believe that the Supreme operates all in accord with the counsel of His will (Eph 1:11), we may sometimes wonder about the details of God's operations. Read Acts 7:35, where Stephan is speaking to the Sanhedrin in defense of

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I am realizing over and over again that man, in his disposition to the flesh, does not naturally thank God for whatever He may send in the way. Right now I am feeling pretty elated, having finished and hold my presentation, and am on an extreme hight spiritually. I am thanking God in my spirit. But how often do I go through tough times and then forget God or don't thank Him in Worship? How

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Ok, no sleep for at least 20 hours now. Yea, pretty much. I got up at about eight yesterday and haven't been able to get to sleep until now.I have a presentation to hold. That accounts for the adrenaline that is better than any drug. Sometime in my attempted "career" as a teacher this has to stop, or I'll drop dead at some point soon when I actually start teaching regularly in front of whole

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I have just experienced the most exhilarating thing. A few days ago I send a link to a friend that contained an article headed 'Death, Dying and Sin, and Resurrection'. The article proved from the scriptures that death is not a state of consciousness, but rather a state of complete oblivion for all mankind, whether believer or not.(Here is the link in case you are interested: http://

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Today is a day that didn't go as I reckoned it would go. I still have a project to finish until Tuesday. It actually is a presentation, a simple presentation that isn't even hard to prepare. But somehow, this morning, when I sat in the university trying to get it all together, I suddenly felt sick, dizzy, and I had to go home for my bed.It is one of those days that I sometimes would like to

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Have you ever wondered whether there is Hell or not? I am sure any one at some point in life comes up with the big 'Why-Question', and may turn into a truth or answer seeker. Then, if this person happens to live in the western world, he or she may encounter people who say Jesus Christ is the answer to this great question. At the same time, though, these Christians go on saying that if this

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