prophetic writing
stands alone.
The Word of God
is its own interpreter,
and every passage
should be understood
according to its
plain meaning.
One should know
its historic and
cultural context
and all Scripture
ought always to
be examined
alongside every
other Bible passage
that bear witness
to the same subject.
God is to believe inhim and all his wordsrecorded in Scripture;to trust in Jesusfor our salvation;to love him withall our heart, soul,mind, and strength;and to love ourneighbors as ourselves.This should beour Life principle.
and its grandfather too;I am its entire support.I am the sum of all knowledge,the purifier, the syllable Om;I am the sacred scriptures,the Rig, Yajur, and Sama Vedas.(Quotes fom the great Hindu spieitual classic Bhgavat Gita)
all these virtueswere seen as theyhad never beenseen before.Even when theywere floggedwithin an inchof their lives,tortured in themost despicableways imaginableand put to deathby fire, swordor by being thrownto the wild beasts,their composurewas breathtaking.
of intenseinner wakefulness.
every member ofthe human racethe opportunityto be bought back,from the slave-marketof sin and Satan,and to become freeto live the rest ofour life in totaldedication to Christ.
distinction betweeneternity and time.Eternity is nottime and timeis not eternity.Or, there is anasymmetricalrelation betweeneternity and time.Eternity is theprototype andtime the type.Time derivesits existencefrom eternity.
