The divine directive was a challenge to Abram’s faith. He was to leave all he knew for an Uncertain destination. If the land had been described in glowing terms‚ the trial to Abram’s Faith would have been far less. God did not even tell him at this time that he would give him the land‚ only show it to him. During his lifetime Abram never gained possession of any of that land save a small plot where he buried his dead. The apostle describes his astounding faith in these words: “By faith Abraham‚
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The theologist in this article questions the gender of god in the face of the onslaught of the question of the female divine; the varied criticisms and the study of the scriptures where God declares to Moses “I am that I am.” The article goes on to defend the male divine in that it argues from religious studies‚ scriptures and published studies the male nature of God from a Christian’s standpoint. Taking on certain criticisms and arguing against them point by point‚ the article is a reaction to
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in front of you now to bring out this message of God for all of us. Please bear with me‚ because as old as I might seem‚ this is actually the first time that I will be talking to anyone about God in particular and I guess this just shows the work that God has put into my life. And I am very thankful for that. Colossians 3:17 ESV / ! And whatever you do‚ in word or deed‚ do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus‚ giving thanks to God the Father through him.! ! Before we start i would like to
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Christian‚ I worship the triune God in a church in a small town in the Cascade Mountains called Manson. The worship typically consists of Sunday morning services comprised of singing praise followed by a message and teaching‚ along with fellowship. Within my church‚ there are multiple opportunities to help less fortunate people‚ not only locally‚ but also in other parts of the world. Their blessed moments offered in missions when one is called upon to spread the word of God. One such opportunity aroused
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Spirit. Some writers argued that the term “Spirit” designated an aspect of God’s work‚ not a distinct divine person of the Trinity‚ while others criticized the western approaches to the Trinity‚ which regards the Holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father and the Son. In the midst of these discussions‚ John Webster‚ wrote an important response on the distinctiveness of the Holy Spirit‚ arguing a possible way to conceive the role of the Holy Spirit within the western background ideas. Webster starts
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find his way to Heaven to meet his Dad because he is certain that God will never make His way into Tom Bell’s life. Tom Bell has two dreams that he shares with his wife. In the first dream‚ he tells us that he does not remember it very clearly but he says that his dad is at least 20 years younger than him in the dream and it is weird to him that he is a lot older than his own dad. Bell may have lived a longer life than his father‚ but not necessarily a good and well-lived life. The second dream
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All the progeny of GOD Father are intelligences endowed with a spirits body that serves as a means of enabling the intelligences to progress in the acquisition of knowledge and experience while living in the direct presence of our Heavenly Father. This spirits body is composed of a material so refined that the spirit body is an eternal body and incorruptible. It was necessary to acquire this body so that the intelligences that possessed it could exist in the presence of The Father and His Beloved Son
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The Shack Paul Young 246 pages The Shack is about a man named Mackenzie Philips‚ who has an encounter with God and is saved through a tragedy. Mack‚ short for Mackenzie‚ takes his children on a camping trip‚ just for the fun of it‚ and to get away from civilization. While they were there‚ his two sons were on a canoe and accidently flipped it. One of his sons almost drowns but Mack runs out into the lake to save him. Not thinking before he did that‚ he left his little daughter Missy by herself
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objective truth‚ and then there is God (Christian truth) which has a large element of faith. The modernist is all about what they believe to be absolute truth and what is scientific and provable. To the modernist‚ Christianity is the keeper of faith but not the keeper of truth. The post-modernist is skeptical of absolute truth and of any faith or religion who claims absolute truth. The Christian knows God is the truth and the bible holds all the messages and lessons of God which is our truth. As learned
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fresco reached 22 feet high and depicts a classical Roman architectural setting‚ none of which you see is real architecture but is all painted. The Trinity is a three in one story of God. God the Father‚ the Son who emanates from God‚ and the Holy Spirit which is represented by the dove and which emanates from the Father and the Son. The first thing that is noticed is a chapel that is above a tomb. The tomb is at ground level and the first thing that you see is a skeleton in it with an inscription
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