Even Martin Luther attacked the book of James, saying it was not faithful to the gospel of Christ, that it had nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. ... At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go sown upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it. ... To withhold the wages of a worker is to attack their lives. ...
With Adam's fall from grace and God's judgement on man, Satan understood that the Adamic Covenant promised a Savior and seized the opportunity to attack man and wrestle him from the fulfillment of that promise. Mankind had progressively become worse, falling into continual sin and depravity, and "the Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain" (Genesis 6:6). ... After the waters receded, Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God, while He made a covenant with His faithful servant, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man,...
'I may be wrong on indulgences,' declared Luther, 'but as to the need for faith diminished the role of the priests who may place awafer in the mouth but cannot engender faith in the heart" (Bainton 107). ... Luther's courage and boldness can be seen in his "Open Letter to Pope Leo X" dated: Wittenberg, September 6, 1520: "I have, to be sure, sharply attacked ungodly doctrines in general, and I have snapped at my opponents, not because of their bad morals, but because of their ungodliness. ...
Some years ago a German scholar came under a terrible attack for describing the poor condition of the church. His article was titled "The Babylonian Captivity". In it Martin Luther pointed out that the church had fallen so far away from truth that it had spiritually become Bablylon: Apostate! ...
The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern...
AN EXEGESIS OF 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7 There are perhaps few passages within the Pauline Corpus1 that have so much ambiguity involved as that of 2 Cor 12:7. Questions arise from Paul's metaphorical use of "skovkoloy th/: sarkiv." There are questions about the dative use of th/: sarkiv. Theories...
