Resource Manager Posted September 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 26 September 2013"REASON" plays a large part in the so - called "higher criticism." What is reason, and in what respect is it authorative in matters of truth? Reason may be defined thus: "The power to think the power to conceive truth; likewise the product itself of thinking or mental conceiving." The power to think truthfully is thus the essence of reason. Only one Being in the universe possesses this power underived and as an inherent quality of his nature, and that Being is the God of Israel and Creator of all things. Since He is the fountain and source of all reason, His reasoning can alone be infallible as the criterion by which to judge all reasoning in His creatures. We lay down then as our premise: "There must be one source, fountain head and centre of reason as an inherent quality of His nature, from whom all power to reason is derivable, and by which all reason in the creature is to be judged and settled as true or untrue." To dispute the above premise is to leave us at the mercy of frail humanity, the caprice of whose reasoning is as varied as the manifold desires of weak, perishable, fallible, and ambitious human nature. We therefore accept our premise as true and undebatable, especially as bearing upon Bible truth."- Dr. WelchHuman Reason and the Bible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 27 September 2013 "Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done" is still our prayer which absorbs every other. That is for the future; but for the present we have to endure, to trust, and to pray that each day may bring its strength with its burden, and its lamp for its gloom." - W.E. GladstoneThe Christadelphian Magazine (1909) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 28 September 2013 "... Thus the Spirit (in the Gospel) and the water (of baptism) and the blood of Christ symbolized in the wine of the sacrament do agree in one. They tell the same story. They insist on the same Truth. They are one. Christ is the body, soul and spirit of them all."- H.A. WhittakerThe Crucifixion of Jesus (1971) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 29 September 2013“I SAW Eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." So wrote the poet of a moment of vision which he could express only in this way. But of a much greater vision, the prophet Isaiah wrote of a more tangible eternity: "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up ..." Such thoughts of eternity and of the Eternal have ever been in man’s mind and according to the measure of his mind, and the intents of his heart, so has God illumined his vision with knowledge as well as light."- John MarshallReflections on the Way (1960) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2013 30 September 2013"The head which bows to receive Christ’s yoke cannot be "heady or high minded"; and the neck which is honoured by receiving his yoke cannot be stiffnecked. The goad of love which guides Christ and his yoke-fellows in love’s labour, leads in paths of righteousness and the way of peace. We must indeed learn of Jesus, or we shall never be fitted to share his burden, the ultimate salvation of mankind, or be fitted to his yoke. It is those, who, like their Master, are meek and lowly of heart, who shall find rest for their souls."- W. TunstallSharing Christ's Yoke (1953) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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