Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
