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Christians are in the habit of looking at "the law" as a great enemy. Why is this? Because it does not countenance the least sin. It says, "walk before me and be thou perfect." Is that not right – could a perfect God recognize or make a law in any way imperfect? Surely not. The reason men...

Our question from our last post was: How does the death of Christ show, or commend, God's love? It will not do to say it shows it because it shows it. That would be about equal to saying, God hates sin because he hates it, which is no reason at all. God hates sin because he loves his...

"But God commended his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom 5:8 That "God is love" and unchangeable we believe to be prime facts of the gospel; and that man alone is alienated and needs reconciliation. The death of Christ was not for the purpose of...

Verse 16 "And he causes all, the little and great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the bondmen, that they should give themselves a mark on the right hand or in their forehead;" that is to say, the Image causes all who would be its followers and worshipers to commit themselves...

Verse 14 "And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs which it was given him to do in the presence of the beast." Those who dwell on the earth (not "the earth" itself – i.e. the people who acknowledge and obey these two beasts) it probably refers to independent Christians not...

We return once again to a correspondence between two brethren truth seekers; they are addressed as Brothers A and B for convenience. B. I am here again Brother A., anxious as ever to enjoy whatever light may be due the church; I know that you believe the word of God to be a lamp, whose oil is...

Continued from our previous post. V. He has ALL power, physical and spiritual. As often expressed, Power over the body as well as the soul. Many believing the latter are too apt to exclude the former. As a Healer he confirms his word and establishes his authority. "Lo I am with you always even...

A BIBLE READING. Lord, signifies master, ruler, governor. Lordship, signifies Dominion, power, authority. These definitions are related to each other and to the subject. Husband, is also a definition of Lord. The Anglo-Saxon word, Hlaford, from which our English word Lord is derived signifies...

B. But does it not seem a forced construction to suppose Michael to symbolize the “Man of Sin?” Is not this the same Michael referred to in Daniel 12? If it is a symbol in one case, is it not in the other? A. No; the account in Daniel 12 is a literal statement. The resurrection and other...

In our last post Brother B. was pondering the latter half of the Apostles statement found in 2 Thess 2 1-4, -“Who sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” Asked, How could Papacy fulfill this? The temple at Jerusalem had been destroyed hundreds of years before Papacy’s rule...

We continue where we left off in our previous post. B. But, can we say the Papacy denies God or Christ? Is the language – “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped,” – applicable to that system? A. Yes; as Paul said of some: “They profess that they know...

This is a correspondence between two brethren truth seekers as they discuss the topic of the Antichrist. They are simply addressed as Brothers A and B for convenience. B. – Good evening, brother A., I have wanted for some time to inquire your views of the “Man of Sin” – “The Antichrist.” Who...

It has been asserted that the life which Christ laid down for the world was not the natural, but that which he had with the Father; which – spiritual life – he laid down at his incarnation and took up at his resurrection; Wresting with John 6:63. “The flesh profits nothing,” from its true...

The Bible student is often puzzled with the question, How many kinds of life are there; and what is the difference between them? Our authorized version answers the question vaguely, if at all. The word life, as found in the New Testament, is, in most places, a translation from one of the two...

The same writer who says Christ died because He was mortal, also says He died to get rid of His flesh, and show us the way into the holiest and that He went through as the First and our Forerunner, the last of which is true; but if as the same writer assumes Christ and the Saints are all raised...

Those who oppose the vicarious offering of Christ, admit, of course, that he died, and to give an explanation of the cause of His death falls upon them, and it is attempted. They deny that in any sense He died in our stead, and one statement made in explanation is: Christ became one of us, to...

Paul declares that there is one mediator between God and men – the man Christ Jesus, “who gave himself a ransom for ALL, to be testified in due time.” 1 Tim 2:5,6. How few of the Gospel Church are prepared to receive such teaching with any degree of complacency; yet it is a glorious truth, and...

I firmly believe that a profound, divinely ordained correspondence exists between things spiritual and things natural. Observe the order of my words: Between things spiritual and things natural, putting things spiritual first. This is a vital point. For we are wont to think that it is by a...

There are some very dark and strange things in the Bible – things which to many seem irreconcilable with the character of justice and love which we ascribe to our Heavenly Father. “God is love,” and “by the grace of God Christ tasted death for every man.” “He is the propitiation for our sins...