Human Destiny WE HAVE BEEN ASKED to reply to a recent book entitled CRUCIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HELL.1 For the most part, the author simply makes a case for eternal punishment and Hell such as will appeal to and, we suppose, satisfy the so-called evangelical public. Will all who die in unbelief, including those who have…

Human Destiny  GOD ALL IN ALL DO YOU BELIEVE ALL of God’s Word? When I first came to know God I went to the meetings of the “Plymouth Brethren” and learned many a precious truth from them which, at that time, was almost unknown in the nominal churches. The Lord’s coming, the need of “rightly…

Human Destiny  THE CONCILIATION OF THE WORLD OVER nineteen hundred years ago in the city of Corinth in Greece, there was a group of believers in Christ Jesus. They had accepted the evangel that Christ died for their sins and had been roused to a victory in which they shared (cf 1 Cor. 15:1-4,20-28,50-57). But…

Human Destiny Torturing Doubts: Why did God Make Men? Merely to Damn Them? IF THERE IS an eternal hell, no other but God Himself can have called it into existence, for no one else would have the power to do so. Did He make it before or after sin entered the world? If before, we…

Human Destiny Concordant Studies PROBABLY MOST people under biblical influence have been either perplexed or distressed by the alarming phrase, “the unpardonable sin.” The fear has been aggravated by the way modern evangelists use this idea, finding it a very convenient one with which to frighten those they wish to persuade to seek salvation according…

Human Destiny His Achievement Are We If ever you should be avowing with your mouth the declaration that Jesus is Lord, and should be believing in your heart that God rouses Him from among the dead, you shall be saved. (Rom.10:9) THIS VERSE is probably employed more than any other in today’s popular, formularized preaching…

Human Destiny Concordant Studies WHEN interpreted as a parable, the story of the rich man and Lazarus offers no opposition to the teaching of the Old Testament concerning the death state. When read as literal history it negates the entire volume of Hebrew revelation. The alternative that presents itself to the student is that of…

Human Destiny Concordant Studies ISRAEL DIVORCED FROM YAHWEH In this reference to divorce, an illustration is probably given of the manner in which the stewards of Israel were lowering the high standards of their divinely given laws. They were reducing them to the low levels of their conveniences. In contrast to such an attitude, we…

Human Destiny THE NEW BIRTH contrasted with THE NEW CREATION SUBJECTS which have been under consideration over a long period of time, acquire their own well-known terms. Often the mere discussion of a question conveys the idea that all is clear and plain, and further inquiry superfluous. Should the subject have been misunderstood, it is…

Human Destiny  Concordant Studies OVERWHELMING GRACE, AND “UNPARDONABLE” SIN THE CLAIM against our teaching on this theme is usually set forth thus: “The Bible says that those committing this sin ‘shall not be forgiven’ (Luke 12:10, AV); whereas the Concordant teaching is that, eventually, all such sinners shall be forgiven. Since such a teaching contradicts…