PEACE IS BETTER THAN WAR!

So deeply ingrained in the fabric of Western civilization is the basic Christian concept of peace being better than war, that there are many who are seemingly unaware of its origin and of the Christian roots that sustain it.

THE CHRISTIAN’S STRUGGLE – SPIRITUAL WARFARE AGAINST EVIL! – Ephesians 6

The Spirit also convicts of righteousness by revealing the mystery of how a man may acquire a righteousness not his own, that being the righteousness of Christ, available to all who receive and obey the gospel, thus being inducted “into Christ,” and identified with Christ as Christ.

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT –
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL – Exodus 20

Frequently, the human family have attempted to get rid of private property and to inaugurate some form of communal living, but thousands of years of experience have demonstrated invariably the futility and failure of all such systems.

THE ONE BODY – 1 Corinthians 12

God saves people, not by injecting righteousness into them (on the grounds of their faith and/or obedience), but by transferring them “into Christ,” identifying them “as Christ,” and making them, in fact, to be Christ.

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT –
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY – Exodus 20

the Bible extols and honors the glory of the workman.

THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT:
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL – Ukraine Edition – Exodus 20

Without property, life itself is in jeopardy. Frequently, the human family have attempted to get rid of private property and to inaugurate some form of communal living, but thousands of years of experience have demonstrated invariably the futility and failure of all such systems.

CHRIST AND THE BIBLE – John 1

Christ was both human and divine, and so is the Bible. The Lord identified himself as one with the Father, and yet he was also the son of the virgin Mary, of the posterity of David and of Abraham. Likewise, the Bible is in fact the word of God; yet, at the same time, it is the writing by men like Isaiah, Moses, Matthew, Luke, and Paul.

THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE STATE

There are two kinds of states; and, besides that, the same principles of submission are enjoined upon Christians with reference to both kinds, as plainly indicated in Revelation 13:10 where John implied the very fullest consonance with all that Paul and Peter wrote.

OUR SUFFERINGS IN THIS PRESENT TIME – Romans 8

Such is the darkness of the epic tragedy of mankind, lost in sin, without God, and without hope in the world, until they shall turn to the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE VALUE OF MOSES’ LAW – 1 Timothy 1

Paul flatly declared that Christians are “dead to the law by the body of Christ” (Romans 7:4), this having reference, of course, to all requirements of the law in their totality.