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The Proof of True Forgiveness
Genesis 45 is one of the greatest demonstrations of forgiveness in the Bible because it reveals what forgiveness looks like when God's grace has transformed the human heart.
Keep ReadingForgiveness - Biblically Based or Basically Therapeutic?
Although using "forgiveness" as a tool of therapy may be healthy, and most of the above benefits a result, this definition and use of forgiveness has become pervasive and the primary understanding that so many Christians hold as to what the scriptures mean by forgiveness. This is an unbiblical position and problematic.
Keep ReadingA Place at the Father's Table
Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of, the sons of God. (Westminster Shorter Catechism)
Keep ReadingCremation or Burial?
In the final analysis it is no doubt correct to say that the manner of disposal is not a matter of vital importance. We do not believe, for instance, that in the resurrection there will be any difference between those who are buried in the graves of the earth and those whose bodies were destroyed by fire, or devoured by wild beasts, or drowned in the sea, or blown to bits by the explosion of bombs. Certainly, the martyrs who were burned for the faith and whose ashes were scattered by the winds will arise in the resurrection, and their bodies will not be one bit less glorious than those of others who received burial. There is no limit to the power of God. He who in the first place made the body from the elements of the earth can bring again the body that has been disintegrated by whatever means. The iden¬tical particles are not essential to resurrection. A sailor buried at sea rises as surely as if he had been expensively embalmed and buried in the family plot.
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