Two details of issue

I was confronted on an assertion that I made in class. I realized that I often come to conclusions too quickly and sucker under with even little confrontation. In class I had asserted that Machen said that his teacher's definition of Miracles was sound or orthodox. His teacher said "A Miracle is an event in the external world that is wrought by the immediate power of God" (Machen 102). I was immediately asked, ow does he know? I initial thought to myself "Who do you think you are to question Machen?" I should have asked, however, What reasons do you have to doubt His assertion? In retrospect many arguments to which I have listen and in which I have participated are directed at the man or argumentum ad hominem. It must also be noted that ideas, definitions, and conclusion that are sound ought to have rational basis. Therefore, I ought to patiently and contemplatively deal with all questions for the sake of their concern for the truth. The knowledge of the truth must be aim of all my inquiries and endeavors. For "the truth will set us free."

McGrew asked me today if I would have a suggestions for him. Immediately I thought he was going to give me a suggestion. So I was a little surprised at his question. I fumbled around with some initial thoughts that were fragmented and displaced. I then said it would help if you help us see the relevance of the course. Ashamedly, in retrospect, I spoke in haste because he has explained and reexplained why these matters of apologetics are so important and good. He has explained the content and its extensions, entailments, and implications. There are gaps. However, I have yet to deal with what he has taught that is why I have failed to comprehend the profound relevance of the course content. I feel often that as a student I cannot adequately aid an accomplished professor in his attempt to better his class because he understands the content more fully and comprehensively than I. A course is ultimately subservient to the content; therefore, a student's estimation of a course is subject to his understanding of the content. The class has been thus far helpful because I have been forced to think about how I think, what I know.

The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time

http://gerald-massey.org.uk/cooper/b_gulf_of_time.htm

INTRODUCTION

I. THE ARCH
OF SCIENCE

II. THE ARCH
OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

III. THE ARCH
OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

IV. THE ARCH
OF MARTIN LUTHER.

V. THE ARCH
OF THE INVENTION OF PRINTING.

VI. THE ARCH
OF JOHN WYCKLIFFE.

VII. THE ARCH
OF MAGNA CHARTA.

VIII. THE ARCH OF THE
CRUSADES.

IX. ARCH OF WILLIAM
THE CONQUEROR.

X. THE ARCH
OF DARKNESS.

XI. THE ARCH
OF KING ALFRED.

XIII. THE ARCH
OF MOHAMMED.

XIV. THE ARCH
OF AUGUSTINE.

XV. THE ARCH
OF EARTHQUAKE.

XVI. THE ARCH
OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.

XVII. THE ARCH
OF PERSECUTION.

XVIII. and XIX. THE
ARCH OF THE FATHERS; THE
ARCH OF THE APOSTLES.

"LEBEN JESU":
DR. DAVID FRIEDRICH
STRAUSS.

MATTHEW'S
GOSPEL.

MARK'S GOSPEL.

LUKE'S GOSPEL.

JOHN'S GOSPEL.

THE CONCLUDING
EVIDENCES.

One-Year Tract Bible Reading Plan

http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/rss2.0/one.year.tract/

Justice

Although the ceremonial or Levitical precepts are done away with by the blood and flesh of Jesus, the moral Law of God is not. Its demands, however, are appeased by the same Obedient-Suffering-Servant, namely Jesus Christ. The two aspects of the moral law demanded that men perfectly love God with all heart, soul, mind, and strength and that they perfectly love their neighbors as themselves. The Ten Commandments exhibit ten moral laws that seem externally minded, while Jesus declares their internal significance. Jesus said, “'You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart'” (Matthew 5:27-30). The stipulations required by such imperatives cause men to shudder because of the heaviness of the demand. “There is none righteous no not one... none who seeks for God” (Romans 3:10-11). It is obvious that the holiness of God is not observed by men, but profaned by all men. Therefore all men by nature and according to justice are offenders of God, sinners against the holy-infinite God. Consequently, men deserve a proportionate judicial verdict, eternal condemnation.

The Blood of Jesus

While the impetus for which one can enter into the Holiest is Jesus' blood, the reason that a blood sacrifice is offered is on account of sin. “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). If the transgression of the law is sin, then the one who gave the law is the one offended by the sin of the law. “Now the law not only forbids the doing of evil, whether by thought, word, or deed, but also commands the doing of good. So to omit the good commanded is sin, as well (or ill) as is the doing of evil that is forbidden... Whatever transgresses the law of God... whether it break an affirmative or a negative precept [is sin]” (Ralph Venning, 25). Since it is God's law, sin is an offense against God. Consequently, God decrees that “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22). That is, God demands a penalty proportionate to the offense; however, the greatest sacrifice a man could offer, namely his life, is not sufficient because man is finite. The payment would not fit the offense. In order to fulfill God's justice, God sent Himself in the person of His Son to offer a blood sacrifice. That is, the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed his own life as a propitiation for the sins of His people. Therefore, Jesus' life, death, burial, and resurrection accomplished a way to God, a new and living way.

Arrogance

I hate arrogance. I hate it my obsession with my ideas. I hate arrogance when I attest to an idea with self-exalting resolve, when I esteem my prerogative as authoritative on the basis of my own attestation, and when I obsessively claim esoteric truth while the truth is diminished not by neglect but by relegation. If we care for the truth we will care for proportions and manner. That is, words, concepts, ideas, qualities have a portion that we often neglect in our opinions. We use particular terms inadequately; therefore, in our attempt to proclaim the truth we relegate the truth by deemphasis or over emphasis.

May God grant us discernment as we strive toward the truth. Too many people claim a right position hatefully and a wrong position "lovingly."
May this not be true of us.

Note: Schedules seem like important and helpful ideas

Sometimes it is difficult to schedule my appointments in a way that complements my schedule. Consequently, I awake and crash at peculiar hours.

As I survey my will to rise
and gaze upon my work
I see the ways I should have gone
The ways I should walked

The Law appointed here before
commends that I obey
Commands that tell the world of GOD
About His perfect way

As I survey the Word of Law
Its call to righteousness
Where God has spoken
Yes and No about His covenant

How can a man fufill that Word?
How can he walk by faith?
How can He keep from one offense?
From making one mistake?

As I survey my will to rise
to listen to that Word
I love the World too much to part
too much to follow God

I love the spoil of my misdeeds
the gain of my offence
I hate that Word, the Word of God
for what the Law has said

As I survey the Law of God
My sin abounds the more
I will not listen thou I know
God will judge the world

Oh how God intervenes to save
His people from their sin
The Lamb of God, Jesus the Christ
Has died and rose again

He has obeyed the Law of God
He has fulfilled it all
He has transformed my will and way
By suffering and scorn

The theme of Blood

When John the Baptist exclaimed, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." Would he not have understood the function of the pascal lamb? Would not he know that the Lamb was slaughtered as a offering for sin? John is proclaiming in his day that God's promised Messiah was standing before him. That this God-Man is the Lamb who will drink the cup of the Father's wrath to save his people from their sins. And still the people think that the promised messiah was going to be a political figure head? Seriously? But the Messiah had to suffer, and die in order to procure salvation for His people







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THE GLORIOUS POWER OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, and the wonderful blessings procured for us by it