The Purpose of God Men were not ushered into being for the purpose of being saved or lost God manifestation not human salvation was the great purpose of the Eternal Spirit The salvation of a multitude is incidental to the manifestation but was not the end proposed ID: 275406
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Brethren’s DiscussionSlide2
The Purpose of God
Men were not ushered into being for the purpose of being saved or lost! God manifestation not human salvation was the great purpose of the Eternal Spirit. The salvation of a multitude is incidental to the manifestation, but was not the end proposed.
The Eternal Spirit intended to enthrone Himself on the earth, and in so doing, to develop a Divine family from among men, every one of whom shall be Spirit, because born of the Spirit, and that this family shall be large enough to fill the earth, when perfected, to the entire exclusion of flesh and blood
.
Herald of the Kingdom, April 1858Slide3
Salvation
Salvation will not come just from a few tired minutes of mechanical, absent minded reading of the Bible each day, but by an intense, earnest, overpowering, constant yearning to know more of God and his word; to do more in service of Him; to love Him more deeply and to conform more closely to his will.
This must be the reigning passion of our lives. If it isn’t we are not few of the wise that God will select from the perishing billions to live eternally with Him.
It is so fatally easy to delude ourselves into assuming we of ourselves are something special in God’s sight, arbitrarily chosen from the perishing billions, and that He will somehow overlook our disobedience, neglect and waste of time, just because we’re us.
G. W.
Growcott
, The
Berean
, v65, p98Slide4
Questions
Explain what is meant by the “Servant Songs”. Give a description of one of them, and indicate what “servant” you consider it refers to.
Write notes on three of the following:
The proclamation of Cyrus
Zerubbabel the son of
Shealteal
Sanballet
the
Horonite
Priests and Levites
The Image of Jealousy
Give three illustrations used by Ezekiel to enforce his teaching, and explain their meaning.
Show, with short quotations, what teaching is found in the Psalms on three of the following:
Disbelief in God
Sorrow for sin
Patriotism
The fate of the wicked
The omniscience of God
State the chief ways in which the Fourth Gospel differs from the other three Gospels in its presentation of the life of Christ. How do you account for the differences?
UK G.C.E Examination, mid 1960’sSlide5
Christadelphia
Among the
Christadelphians
, who have neither a central headquarters for subsidiary concerns like that of the Witnesses, nor a ministerial order like that of the Seventh Day Adventists, original belief persists much as it was first enunciated.
Yet although they remain adventists, some of the intensity has also gone from Christadelphian advocacy. As they have come, in large part, to recruit internally, and to sustain their segregation from the wider society, so they have also come to adopt a more introversionist
position. There has been a shift from preoccupation with the kingdom to more emphasis on the cross: the movement has become somewhat more devotional, and there has been a loss of the angular and contentious characters who, in the early days, were so joyously convinced of the early overturn of this dispensation. Some
Christadelphians
have become increasingly concerned about social problems, refugees and famine relief.
Bryan Wilson, Sects and Society, p239Slide6
Spectrum of Society
Post-Modernism
Humanism
Modernism
Man is the highest creature in the universe, is intrinsically good and responsible to no one but himself.
Science can explain everything and allows us to rationalise everything by our knowledge of the natural world.
Truth is determined by what best serves man. Right and wrong are determined
situationally
not absolutely.Slide7
Spectrum of Society
Post-Modernism
Communitarianism
Theism
Humanism
Modernism
Man is the highest creature in the universe, is intrinsically good and responsible to no one but himself.
Science can explain everything and allows us to rationalise everything by our knowledge of the natural world.
Truth is determined by what best serves man. Right and wrong are determined
situationally
not absolutely.
Humanism is wrong. Man should consider thee needs of others before himself.
(just a different form of humanism)
God manifestation is the only purpose of man’s existence. All activities must be submissive to this purpose.Slide8
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Time No Longer
Revival of the Truth
Spirituality
Accepted
Rejected
The Ecclesia
The World
When the Son of man cometh, shall he find the faith on the earth?
Lu 18:8
I am Yahweh, I change not.
Mal 3:6
Shall he find the Faith?Slide9