One reader writes: (1) Do the Greek terms used in John 20:5-8 or Luke 24:12 give any definite indication how the grave-clothes of Jesus were lying in the sepulchre—whether (a) lying flat or collapsed; (b) stiffened and retaining the form of the body by the congealing of the spices; or (c) folded, …
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The importance and value of right thinking is today more than ever pressed upon people’s attention. Books, newspaper articles, and advertisements all show that there is a great interest in the working of the human mind and the rules of behaviour. Know your own mind, we are constantly told;…
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Nothing is more definitely set forth in the gospel than the fact that its very heart is the work of Christ. Do we think of the gospel as the covenant with Abraham concerning everlasting inheritance of the land promised? Then we find that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth …
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Under the present conditions of imperfection forgiveness is something that affects both men and God: it affects man in relation to his fellows and man in relation to God. Although we may think of forgiveness as something inwrought in human behaviour and universally recognized, it is really a Biblica…
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The following article, “Sin and Its Condemnation”, was written by Brother John Carter in 1956. He was then the Editor of The Christadelphian Magazine. Brother Carter along with Brother Cyril Cooper wrote the Addendum which helped bring about reunion in Australia in 1958. This article helps to el…
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But another thought comes in connection with it, and it is this: if God is supreme, God cannot allow man’s challenge to go without response, because God cannot allow man’s sin to frustrate the purpose that He had in placing man upon the earth. But the two things bring us to a focal point, the pr…
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The following article, “Sin and Its Condemnation”, was written by Brother John Carter in 1956. He was then the Editor of The Christadelphian Magazine. Brother Carter along with Brother Cyril Cooper wrote the Addendum which helped bring about re-union in Australia in 1958. This article helps to e…
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The factors of justification are three: all are definable in scriptural language. We are “justified by grace”, we are “justified by faith” and we are “justified by the blood of Christ”. These are not alternative ways of justification; the terms all converge on the one act by which God ch…
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All the four gospels record the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. John also records the discourse in which Jesus shows that the providing of the food was a figure of himself as the Bread of Life.
We will not now follow the explanation given of the typical foreshadowings of Christ’s w…
When we think of the vast extent of the universe we feel overwhelmed not merely with a sense of man’s smallness, but with the difficulty of thinking of God the Creator. The contemplation of the power and energy in the moving spheres, the terrifying distance of space, somehow more awesome because e…
