By Jady W. Copeland When Simon tried to buy the power of God with money, the apostle told him that his heart was not right with God. “Right” according to W.E. Vine means “straight, hence, metaphorically, right, is so rendered in Acts 8:21, of the heart.” According to the same scholar “righteousness” means “the character or …
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What Is Not Obedience
By Ronny Milliner In the closing part of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus shows the importance of obedience. He declares that the one who enters the kingdom of heaven will be “he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matt. 7:21b). While we can learn about obedience in this section, we can also …
The New Hermeneutics
By James L. Sloan An article by Michael Hall of St. Louis, Mo. is entitled, “Wine and Wineskins,” and is in essence a new interpretation of the teaching of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 9:17: “Neither do men put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins …
Hope in Death
By Roger Shouse Robert Ingersoll, the nineteenth century agnostic, known for his lectures and writings against religion, died in the summer of 1899. He challenged, like many of his other intellectual contemporaries (Darwin in Origins, Wellhausen in inspiration of the Bible), the accepted standards of his days. It was an age of reason. It was a …