GOD SUMMONS THE NATIONS AND THEIR IDOLS TO COURT – Isaiah 41
Here the call for silence opens the imaginary proceedings of a court, where God will face the heathen world with a test question.
Aretherra (R-Terra) A site by Eric L Gardner 2022
Here the call for silence opens the imaginary proceedings of a court, where God will face the heathen world with a test question.
The verbal prophecies, numbering some 333, foretold the coming of the Messiah in such detail and clarity that hardly any phase of our Lord’s life and character was omitted.
Christ was tried six times, three times before the Romans and three times before the Jewish tribunals.
Christ was more than a man, and every line of the New Testament emphasizes this transcendent fact.
This habit of praying toward a particular point has been maintained till this day by the Muslims who pray in the direction of Mecca.
The notion that Christianity has a looser moral code than Judaism is ridiculous; and yet that is precisely the understanding some have regarding the wonderful “freedom in Christ.” Such is a fatal delusion.
The 10th commandment is the most comprehensive of the commandments, forbidding ALL unlawful desire of every kind.
The imagination of men is involved in the violation of this commandment, because, if one does not tell the truth, the imagination is the only source of what he does tell.
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.
As in most of the others, with regard to committing adultery, GOD did not give a reason for this prohibition. NONE WAS NEEDED.
Our very civilization today is under attack by all the forces of evil, and the home is primarily the focus of that attack. The beginning of all law and order lies right here in Commandment V. The home is the place where the young human must learn to accept and honor authority. And if he does not do so in the home, he becomes a troublemaker in school, and soon graduates to the police court.
the Bible extols and honors the glory of the workman.
Salvation itself is accomplished in the power of the glorious name of GOD. “Neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
The arrogant and atheistic dictum of humanists to the effect that, modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values, deifies man himself and places within wicked and fallible men the source of all authority.
Christ came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and yet, “He took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross” (Colossians 2:14).
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.
The Declaration of Independence! On this, Our day of Independence, July 4th 1776
We honor of the wise and brilliant men who, with the power of words and inspired writing, broke the inhumane shackles of Tyranny! – ELGardner
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”