Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 14, Day 28/30

Book 1, Chapter 14: In the creation of the world, and all things in it, the true God distinguished by certain marks from fictitious gods. Section 16. The wickedness of the devil not by creation but by corruption. Vain and useless to inquire into the mode, time, and character of the fall of angels. Section [...]

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Are You in the “Center” of God’s Will? and what does that mean? Linking to Blog On The Way

To some Fundamentalist preachers, finding God’s will for your life is like having to catch a train, and if you miss the train, you never get out of the station. Are you in the Center of God’s Will Another good one from  Jeri Massi @ jeriwho.net. Again what we have is a moving target and [...]

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Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 13, Day 23/30

Book 1, Chapter 13: The unity of the Divine Essence in three Persons taught, in Scripture, from the foundation of the world. Section 16. What view to be taken of the Trinity. The form of Christian baptism proves that there are three persons in one essence. The Arian and Macedonian heresies. Section 17. Of the [...]

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By George I believe she gets it!

You can see it in her eyes.  She understands that we are not commissioned to clean folks up and change them to our way of thinking… only God can make the necessary change in people, he must open blined eyes, he must melt the cold stoney heart.  We can do neither and we were never [...]

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Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 13, Day 20/30

Book 1, Chapter 13: The unity of the Divine Essence in three Persons taught, in Scripture, from the foundation of the world. This chapter consists of two parts. I. The orthodox doctrine concerning the Holy Trinity. This occupies from Section 1 – 21, and may be divided into four heads; the first, treating of the [...]

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Propaganda Techniques

Here is a page that needs to be posted far and wide in this silly political season. http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/proptech.htm This page is good for everything from revealing the truth in Commercials, exposing political rhetoric to seeing religious sermonizing for the propaganda it can truly be.  Wherever there is anyone who is seeking to persuade another that [...]

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Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 10, Day 15/30

Book 1, Chapter 10: In Scripture, the true God opposed, exclusively, to all the gods of the heathen. Section 1. Explanation of the knowledge of God resumed. God as manifested in Scripture, the same as delineated in his works. Section 2. The attributes of God as described by Moses, David, and Jeremiah. Explanation of the [...]

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Public Worship to be Preferred Before Private (in it’s entirety w/comment)

http://sabbathandpsalms.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/public-worship-to-be-preferred-before-private/ I am still working my way through this one.  I am only able to take it in bite sized chunks and digest it a little at a time.  I will admit that I have a major bias against organized religion and organized meetings in what we call churches.  So I am taking this in [...]

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Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 8.8-8.11, Day 12/30

Book 1, Chapter 8: The credibility of Scripture sufficiently proved in so far as natural reason admits II. Special proofs taken from the Old Testament, viz., the antiquity of the books of Moses, their authority, his miracles and prophecies, Section 3 -7; also, the predictions of the other prophets and their wondrous harmony, Section 8. [...]

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Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 1st, Chapter 7, Day 9/30

Book 1, Chapter 7: The testimony of the Spirit necessary to give full authority to Scripture. The impiety of pretending that the credibility of scripture depends on the judgement of the church. Section 1. The authority of Scripture derived not from men, but from the Spirit of God. Objection, That Scripture depends on the decision [...]

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