The Divinely Sinful Saints

Author : ITOTKO
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977268404
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divinely Sinful Saints written by ITOTKO and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally, Christians believe that the scriptures in the Bible-both the Old and the New Testaments-are the words of God. They believe God resides in heaven and human beings live on the planet Earth. Then the question is, in the beginning, before the Bible says God created the heaven and the earth, where had God lived? Had he been homeless before he created heaven? In the Old Testament, humans were required to offer some burnt offerings "of a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire," and drink offerings. Should we say, "God was homeless, hungry, and thirsty, and that was why he created heaven, humans, and animals, and required humans to offer burnt animals and drinks"? Many Bible readers believe Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, paradise, and on the planet Earth. But is that true? Let us try to locate where the paradise is. Revelation 2:7 tells us, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Now we know "the tree of life" is in the midst of the paradise of God. Where else can we find "the tree of life" in the scripture? Genesis 2:9 tells us, "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden." Through these scriptures, we can see that "the tree of life" is in the midst of the garden, in the midst of the paradise of God, not on the planet Earth. The scriptures also tell us that Adam and Eve were there. Could they be in physical human bodies in paradise on the planet Earth? Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:2–4: "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." Could a person be “caught up into paradise” if the paradise was on the planet Earth? It was written in Luke 23:43, “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” The “him” in this verse was one of the thieves crucified with Jesus. Does any scripture tell us Jesus’s resurrected physical body took the hand of the thief, also in a physical human body (Jesus must have resurrected the thief’s physical human body, too), and led him into paradise, someplace on this planet Earth? No, it does not. Through all these verses, do we still believe paradise is on this planet Earth?

Author : Con Trong Bui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480869387
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divinely Sinful Saints written by Con Trong Bui and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries, millions of people who read the Bible consider it to be the word of God. Many readers and followers of the Old and New Testaments believe that God lives in heaven and human beings live on the planet Earth. Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Does any Bible reader ask where God had lived before he created heaven? Had he been homeless, and that's why he had to create heaven? And readers assume that Adam and Eve were in physical bodies when they were created--but were they? The Divinely Sinful Saints explores these and other assumptions that many Christians maintain about the Bible, and author Con Trong Bui reviews the scriptures in the Bible to uncover the truth about some of the fakes, fantasies, and falsities that many people believe in as facts due to a misguided literal interpretation. What he shows is that it is important to interpret the symbols and symbolism in the Bible instead of taking each word as literal, and in doing so we can build our faith upon a solid foundation. The scriptures of the Bible contain many contradictory, nonsensical, cruel, and even immoral passages--if we interpret them literally, letter by letter. Yet knowledge of the Bible's symbolism can reconcile these contradictions and at the same time deepen our understanding of the scriptures--and most importantly, we can rely on this understanding to accomplish the will of the most high God.

Author : Alban Goodier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints for Sinners written by Alban Goodier and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Fig
ISBN 13 : 1623146895
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Predestination of the Saints written by Saint Augustine of Hippo and published by Fig. This book was released on 2022 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248733
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That All Shall Be Saved written by David Bentley Hart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today “A scathing, vigorous, eloquent attack on those who hold that that there is such a thing as eternal damnation.”—Karen Kilby, Commonweal The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities. In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation. On the basis of the earliest Christian writings, theological tradition, scripture, and logic, Hart argues that if God is the good creator of all, he is the savior of all, without fail. And if he is not the savior of all, the Kingdom is only a dream, and creation something considerably worse than a nightmare. But it is not so. There is no such thing as eternal damnation; all will be saved. With great rhetorical power, wit, and emotional range, Hart offers a new perspective on one of Christianity’s most important themes.

Author : Clifton Coulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692719633
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Or Sinner? written by Clifton Coulter and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how does God deal with the sins of His saints? Once we have believed in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we know that our sins have been forgiven. But does that forgiveness only apply to our "past" sins? What about 1 John 1:9 that seems to imply we should continuously confess our sins to receive forgiveness? In this small but powerful book, Clifton Coulter addresses many of the common misunderstandings that have kept born-again Christians from experiencing the kind of freedom and confidence that would enable them to effectively impact the world. This life-changing revelation of the finished work of Christ and how it applies to the current sins of His saints will enlarge your understanding of God's love for you and the truth of how He sees you.

Author : Pope Paul VI.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation written by Pope Paul VI. and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document's purpose is to spell out the Church's understanding of the nature of revelation--the process whereby God communicates with human beings. It touches upon questions about Scripture, tradition, and the teaching authority of the Church. The major concern of the document is to proclaim a Catholic understanding of the Bible as the "word of God." Key elements include: Trinitarian structure, roles of apostles and bishops, and biblical reading in a historical context.

Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 1601429525
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God written by Brian Zahnd and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Brian Zahnd began "to question the theology of a wrathful God who delights in punishing sinners, and has started to explore the real nature of Jesus and His Father. The book isn’t only an interesting look at the context of some modern theological ideas; it’s also offers some profound insight into God’s love and eternal plan." —Relevant Magazine (Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2017) God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

Author : Herbert Lockyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780872135314
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sins of Saints written by Herbert Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802476554
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowing Sin written by Mark Jones and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first rule of combat is: know your enemy. We don’t talk a lot about sin these days. But maybe we should. The Puritans sure did—because they understood sin’s deceptive power and wanted to root it out of their lives. Shouldn’t we want the same? Though many books have been written on the “doctrine of sin,” few are as practical and applicable as this one. In Knowing Sin, Mark Jones puts his expertise in the Puritans to work by distilling the vast wisdom of our Christian forebears into a single volume that summarizes their thought on this vital subject. The result isn’t a theological tome to sit on your shelf and gather dust, but a surprisingly relevant book to keep by your bedside and refer to again and again. You’ll come to understand topics like: Sin’s Origin Sin’s Grief Sin’s Thoughts Sin’s Temptations Sin’s Misery Sin’s Secrecy and of course . . . Sin’s Defeat! None of us is free from the struggle with sin. The question isn’t whether we’re sinful, it’s what we’re doing about it. Thanks be to God, there is a path to overcoming sin. And the first step on that path to victory is knowing what we’re up against. Start Knowing Sin today!