If one fundamental doctrine of Bible truth is changed it inevitably leads to a corruption of other Bible teachings. An example of this is the error regarding the teaching of immortal souls. From this error comes the false teaching of heaven and hell at death. However the Catholic doctrine of Purgato…
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A reader enquires: Aaron and Miriam both criticized Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman, and were jealous that the Lord had spoken through Moses and not them. Yet Miriam was stricken with leprosy and Aaron was not. Why was only Miriam punished?
The record of this incident is in Number 12. The que…
A WORLD in recession has made us starkly aware that ‘money does not grow on trees’. The ‘never-had-it-so good’ syndrome was a delusion, anyway, but whatever it was it has rapidly disappeared from the western world. It is time to take stock and get our thinking straight.
Some of us have be…
Our theme of “Christ and Caesar” is a challenging one. It implies two masters each expecting loyalty and undivided service, yet what they stand for is so diametrically opposed that no man can serve both masters. The danger is that in trying to give service to both masters, conflict of conscience…
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“I can resist almost anything – except temptation,” a wag once said. But temptation is no laughing matter. We all know the profound power of the serpent’s voice – sometimes coming from another person, sometimes speaking inside our own heads; sometimes a logical alternative, apparently a co…
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The first time that brethren of the modern era faced the issue of military service was during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The ferocity and carnage of this war has scarcely been equalled in history with 625,000 deaths (1 in every 50 of the total American population). The fiercest theatre of…
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Thus far in our studies on the subject of our relationship to the State we have looked at the key scriptural precedents outlining our obligations and privileges as God’s people living under governments that have been “ordained of God”.
We now come to consider how all these principles are to…
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In the previous article we noted that Jesus was both Son of Man and Son of God. The fact that he was born of a woman did not detract from his unity and fellowship with the Father or the love and esteem that the Father had for him. For the Son of Man was also the Son of God, or as Yahweh so beaut…
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Brother Colin Badger’s article is the first in his series on the Psalms for the Night Seasons. The debilitating effects of pain and anguish from suffering are all too familiar to the elect of God. We will find comfort in the feelings expressed in the Psalms and in Brother Colin’s insightful comm…
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The power of positive thinking is a phrase popularised by Norman Vincent Peale in his book by the same title, written over fifty years ago. The Power of Positive Thinking was written in 1952 and has now sold over 20 million copies in forty-one languages, easily making it the model for the flood of s…
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