By Tom M. Roberts The Monastic concept is a withdrawal from life, a retreat to cloistered walls and inner contemplation that isolates one from contemporaries in a sinful world. The Gnostic concept is a participation in sinful life with the physical body but a philosophical denial of the reality of guilt to the spiritual being. Both …
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Covetousness: An Inadequate Definition
By Johnny Stringer I have often heard covetousness defined as the desire for something that belongs to someone else. I do not believe this definition is correct. Thayer defines Pleonexia, translated “covetousness”) as “a greedy desire.” To covet something is not just to desire it, but to have a greedy desire. It is to desire something …
Mt. 7:14: The Strait Gate And The Narrow Way . . .Few Find It!
By Kenneth E. Thomas According to an article in The Bradenton Herald recently, Mr. David B. Barrett, who is styled as a scholar of the Church of England, states that “Currently, of the world’s 4.8 billion people, there are 1.6 billion Christians, 837 million Moslems, 661 million Hindus, 300 million Buddhists, 457 million of other religions, …
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A Plea To Jim Bakker
By Forrest D. Moyer Dear Mr. Bakker: Yours and your wife’s names have been headlines in the newspapers and on television for the past two weeks. The publicity has not been complimentary due to the fact of admitted sin and also concerning the huge financial empire that you have headed. Many different men have made varied …