Food for thinking Christians, think, use your God given ability to reason things out for yourself, who amongst men could have devised such a plan, which would consider the judgment of one man as determining the fate of all mankind? Now some who have been made aware of this economical feature of the Divine Plan might suggest that someone other than God could have conjured up such an idea, but the evidence does not support this. How many amongst professing…
“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being…
“Lazarus represented the God-fearing people of other nations debarred, until the close of the Jewish Age, from those blessings conferred upon Israel specially. As the linen represented Israel’s justification, so the sores represented moral defilement in this class, for whose justification no sin-offering had at that time been made. They were not even typically cleansed, and had as yet no share in the rich promises of the kingdom. They were on the contrary outcasts, strangers from the commonwealth of Israel….
“Many in reading the account of creation in Genesis have noted the fact stated that when God had formed man of the dust of the ground, and had communicated to him the breath (spirit) of life, the record is, “Man became a living soul.” (Gen 2:7) This statement to the average reader taken in connection with his general misconception of the meaning of the word “soul,” as misrepresented to him by those who should have instructed him properly, and should…
“In the first place bear in mind that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. The word “hell” is an English word sometimes selected by translators of the English Bible to express the sense of the Hebrew word “sheol” and the Greek words “hades”, “tartaroo”, and “Gehenna”, sometimes rendered “grave” and/or “pit”. The word “hell” in the Old English usage before Papal theologians picked it up and gave it a new and special significance…
We continue now with our examination as to what precisely the scriptures teach in regards to the doctrine of Hell as a place of fire and eternal torment. We were examining some texts commonly misapplied in support of this teaching taken from the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. “The last part of the “harvest” of this gospel age is also similar to that of the “harvest” of the Jewish age, as there was a baptism of FIRE in…
The following scriptures are (in part) those which are generally relied upon by some who believe in the doctrine of Hell as a place of fire and eternal torment. Let us examine such to see if this be true. We begin with Matt 3:11, 12 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and…
“WE remind you from our previous post entitled, “John’s Baptism” that the baptism of John was not the baptism that is enjoined upon us– baptism into Christ. I remind you that our Lord’s baptism could not have been the baptism unto repentance, which our “Disciple” friends claim; it could not have been the baptism for the remission of sins. That was John’s baptism, as is most unequivocally stated in the Scriptures. Of our Lord it is said, in Him was…
The Stronghold or Gibraltar of the Baptist and Disciple’s “Concerning the next verse (Rom 6:5), which has seemed to so many to strongly emphasize their position respecting the matter of water baptism: “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.” How many “Baptists” and “Disciples” have considered this verse a very Gibraltar for their faith! They state that their baptism into water was their “planting”…
“And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task (the present experience under the dominion of sin, the permission of evil), God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised (that is through experience they might learn the bitter consequences of sin).” Eccl 1:13 The following subject is one which has left many of the Lord’s children both troubled and perplexed, often…