February 2012
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“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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“The ten holy precepts spoken by Christ upon Sinai’s mount were the revelation of the character of God, and made known to the world the fact that He had jurisdiction over the whole human heritage. That law of ten precepts of the greatest love that can be presented to man is the voice of God from heaven speaking to the soul in promise. ‘This do, and you will not come under the dominion and...
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The Law in the New Covenant
From the start, the principles of the Ten Commandments were given to humanity out of the Lord’s love for people. The law has always been intended to be a blessing. You obey the law, and you are greatly protected from the ravages of sin; you disobey, and you face the inevitable consequences of transgression. Who needs theology to know, personally, just how painful sin and its consequences are? How...
Did the disciples make it all up? →
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austonjones:
A common attack on Christianity is that the disciples simply made up Jesus, the miracles, and the Bible. While at first it seems like a plausible scenario, it doesn’t hold up when you learn what happened to all of the disciples, and how they persevered despite the immense suffering the endured.
James: Betrayed by his own “Judas”. His accuser repented and told...
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The Law and the Prophets
Little controversy exists over the existence of the Law in the period after Sinai. The Old Testament writings are filled with references to the law. And though, so often, those references deal with Israel’s transgression of the law and the subsequent punishments that came, other texts reveal the great love and reverence many in Israel had for the Law, which included not just the Ten Commandments...
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The Sabbath Before Sinai
God doesn’t reveal how He communicated the eternal principles of His law to humanity before Mount Sinai, but the evidence is clear and substantial that the giving of the law on Sinai was not the world’s initial exposure to its precepts.
Many people, forced to concede that point, argue instead that it was only the Sabbath commandment, not the others, that was first given at Sinai, and therefore it...
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I sailed a wild, wild sea, climbed up a tall, tall mountain, I met an old, old man beneath a weeping willow tree. He said, now if you got some questions, go and lay them at my feet, but my time here is brief so you’ll have to pick just three…
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“One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian; one might so...”
– C.S. Lewis (via abideinhislove)
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The Law Before Sinai
As every Seventh-day Adventist knows, as soon as we talk about the law, the Ten Commandments, and Sinai, we hear the refrain that the Ten Commandments were first given to the Jews at Sinai; hence, they are a Jewish or an Old Testament institution and not applicable to our day and time.
Of course, numerous problems exist with that theology, the biggest being that if this were true, then how could...
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“This doctrine [of natural immortality] can be traced through the muddy channels...”
– Dr. Amos Phelps, (1805-1874), a Methodist-Congregationalist clergyman and professor of Yale University.
(via polishedmud)
