By Larry Ray Hafley QUESTION: From Ohio: “According to the Scriptures; God demands perfection or near perfection from His subjects. When God destroyed the earth with the flood (except for Noah and his family), why didn’t He destroy Satan and all other evils and bring in this perfect environment we hear about?” REPLY: This question has …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Nature Declares: “There Is a God!”
By Luther Blackmon Everywhere we see evidence of design, planning, contrivance. Even in the animal world about us we see this. For example, there are some fowls, like the chicken, which have a crop (craw) where food is ground or prepared for preliminary maceration. These eat mostly grain and seeds of various kinds. Then there are …
How Persons are Made Believers
By Cecil Willis Last week in our lesson we pointed out the necessity of man having faith in his heart in order to be saved. Without faith one cannot receive the remission of his sins, he cannot live the life that God intends that he live here in the flesh, nor can he enter heaven in …
Are your Responsibilities “Corban?”
By Jeffery Kingry Jesus was utterly contemptuous of the efforts of the Jews to please God by form rather than substance, He accused them of rank hypocrisy. “This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Mk. …