The first article in this series was written as an evangelistic message to non-believers. This article, and those following, are addressed to new committed Christians. [Read more…]
Archives for June 2015
1. What is a Christian?
We often hear the expression, “It is a matter of life and death.” By that we mean something of vital importance. Christianity is like that. But it would be true to say that it is “A matter of death and life” rather than the other way round. Let me explain. [Read more…]
5. Freewill and Fluidity
Freewill is always coupled with unpredictability in human behaviour. It cannot be otherwise. God gave man freewill, therefore He has set fluidity in motion, which means that He Himself is willingly deprived from knowing the future for each human being, simply by virtue of the nature of freewill. [Read more…]
4. Esau’s History
28.4 1971. The Lord spoke to me, saying, “When a plan fails through human failure, the Lord never patches it up but starts something new.” [Read more…]
3. Prophecy – Failure or Fulfilment?
We have seen from Charles Ozanne’s analysis that one needs great care when interpreting prophecy. Here are some further examples of the problems that can arise, and how they may be understood. [Read more…]
2. The Consequences of Prophecy
The purpose of this chapter, following Charles Ozanne’s exposition, is to show that the righteousness of God cannot be undermined by a prevalent attitude amongst evangelicals who insist that God must honour His prophetic word regardless of man’s intransigence. This attitude is mainly based upon the future of Israel. We shall produce Biblical evidence showing that prophecy is not set in stone, but accomplishes only that which God had in mind when directed towards His people, and cannot be forced to apply to situations which arise hundreds, or even thousands of years later, and where circumstances have changed dramatically, requiring a fresh outpouring of the Divine Mind. [Read more…]
1. Prophecy unfulfilled
An essay by Dr. Charles Ozanne, written in 1972 as the Introduction to his book of this title. [Read more…]
21. The Septuagint Documents
It will be helpful to include a portion of the table of “Age at son’s birth” to include only the Hebrew and the two Septuagint tallies of years before analysing them. [Read more…]
20. The Chronology of Jasher. Part 2
In this chapter we shall turn our attention to the Post-diluvian Patriarchs. And this is where we come up against a problem from the start, a problem that looks as though it will be final, a chronological gap from the date of the Flood to the family of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, beginning with Terah. There is quite a lot of information from then on, but it would seem to be “floating”, without an anchor stretching back into the days of Noah. Let us see what Jasher has to say. [Read more…]
19. The Chronology of the Book of Jasher, Part 1
My readers may well have heard of the Apocrypha, and some Bibles (particularly those published by the Roman Catholic church) have actually printed these extra books in their editions of the Scriptures. But the Old Testament Bible speaks about a number of “lost” books, and although the names of these books may be found in the text of the Bible, none of them is today to be found – with the exception of one, namely The Book of Jasher. To begin this chapter it has been considered necessary to make a few comments about Jasher, so that the Book may find its way into the homes and libraries of more Christians, and may as a result add richness and colour to the Biblical stories of Genesis. [Read more…]
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