By Keith Sharp The July 4, 1973 Houston Post carried the following quotation of Milton G. Henschel, “a top official” of the Jehovah’s Witnesses: “The exact number who will make it to heaven is 144,000 . . . Revelation 14, one in four, gives the exact figure . . . .” Does Revelation 14:1-4 teach that …
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“Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters” (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
By George Welsh Tyler Along the Nile River the civilization of the Pharaohs flourished many centuries. It was the very heart and center of a remarkably great prosperity. The great historian, Herodotus, described it in these words: “Egypt is the Nile.” The Nile’s course sweeps four thousand miles down to the Mediterranean Sea its floods carrying …
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“I’m Just as Good as You Are”
By Roland Worth, Jr. Even though people will not always practice what they know to be right, most people are intelligent enough to realize that they are doing wrong. The adulterer may justify his sin by appealing to the “Playboy Philosophy.” The war criminal may claim that he was just “obeying orders.” The assassin may bemoan …
Denominationalizing the Church (V)
By Roy E. Cogdill The church of the New Testament is undenominational for the reason that it has no denominational or human creed, and no denominational or human organization. When the church anywhere departs from this New Testament pattern either by changing its name, creed (belief and teaching) or organization, it becomes a denomination. Such a …