By Walton Weaver When God rejected Cain’s offering, he must have felt the cards were stacked against him. His response was, according to Genesis 4:5, that he became “very angry, and his countenance fell.” His disposition was such that not only did he get angry at God, but he stayed angry. He could cry “unfair” …
Category Archives: Truth Magazine Vol. 43 1999
What Happens When We Mythologize Part of Genesis?
By Mark Mayberry The entire structure of evolutionary thought is based on the premise that God does not exist. Working from that assumption, scientists derive some naturalistic way of explaining the origins of life, the development of the earth, the geologic column, etc. These obvious biases must be weighed whenever we consider their claims. I …
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John 6 — Not the Lord’s Supper
By Paul K. Williams Brethren, when you read John 6:35-58, or portions of it, at the serving of the Lord’s supper, you are misapplying the passage. Jesus is not talking about the Lord’s supper. He is talking about believing his word. Jesus had fed 5000 men, plus women and children, with five loaves and two …
Country Baptism
It was a typical August Sunday. Already hot when the sun came up. The drive out to the little white frame build- ing was uneventful. Someone had already opened all the windows and distributed the paper fans provided by the local funeral home. In those days there was almost always a noisy, rumbling window fan …