By H.E. Phillips “Does baptism wash away past unlawful marriages?” That is the subject assigned to me for this special issue. I first heard of this idea many years ago, but not much was said about it until the last few years. Some men have always done what they wanted to do, regardless of what the …
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By Jerry R. Earnhart Who can treat lightly or with indifference the trauma of divorce? Hearts ache and break. Bearing one another’s burdens, in such cases, is a must (Gal. 6:1). Beyond the inevitable pain of a failed relationship, divorce can also affect one’s future right to remarry. Jesus says, “But I say unto you, that …
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By Paul Earnhart The love and relationship of marriage is so precious and vital to the human family and to God’s moral and spiritual purposes for them that it is secured behind the high walls of a radical covenant. In our sin and rebellion we have strained against it as if it were a prison rather …
By Harry R. Osborne For over a century, Baptist preachers in debates with our ‘brethren in this country on baptism have made emotional appeals over the hypothetical man on the way to be baptized who was killed by a falling tree limb. Their attempt was to blunt the clarity of Bible teaching on the subject through …
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