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David W. Norris
IMPORTANT
Please read my SPRING 2012 letter
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As Christians we are enjoined by the Scriptures to be law-abiding people, the best of citizens. This being so, it is nothing less than surprising that our government seems intent on passing laws that are likely to make outlaws of us. We, who should lend the greatest support to those charged by God with the task of keeping civil order in our land, are being steadily forced into a position of reluctant opposition. As a result, those generally among the least likely to come before the courts, instead find themselves increasingly in conflict with the law. Our lawmakers seem bent on pushing ahead with one perverse law after another, dismantling and eradicating by a slow drip, drip, much that is good, honest, decent and Christian. They seem to have taken on a battle with God Himself, a God in whom many say they do not believe. Putting a bag over the head does not stop the sun shining on a summer’s day. God does not go away simply because many choose to ignore Him. ...
See The Christian and the Civil Law
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also article The Abolition of God > HERE
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Subject Headings
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Articles recently added
by George Müller:
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
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by J. C Ryle:
THE CHURCH - what is it?
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THE SECOND ADVENT
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THE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES
Even as the sovereignty of God encompasses the whole of reality and cannot be limited to those things deemed ‘spiritual’, so the authority of the Word of God extends to all things.
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400 years
King James Authorized Version
AUTHORIZED OR MODERN BIBLE
The 1611 Bible was never the 'modern version' of its day. The Authorized Version possesses its own unique English. ...
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Please note Authentic Word is not connected with other organizations using the same or similar names.
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The Christian and the Civil Law
When Caesar wants the things that are God's
As godlessness increases in our western democracies, as our leaders seek to redefine morality, diminishing all real sense of right and wrong, so Christian believers are increasingly coming into conflict with the law. Our governments seem unable to bring themselves to punish wrongdoers adequately, and they are now frequently harassing the law abiding. This is a reversal of the godly order. The question now arises as to whether as Christian believers we are bound to obey every law our governments take it into their heads to put on the statute book?
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This timely article has now been reprinted and is available free of charge to encourage wide distribution.
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Recently reprinted in Bible League Quarterly (April-June 2012)
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?"
(Isaiah 10:1-3)
"Not monarchs, nor empires, but 'the heavens do rule!' God alone is the ground of the universe, and His righteousness, truth, mercy and holiness, His will and His judgements, are the establishment of His throne. Might does not make right, but the nature and will of God. Right is not the enactment of the State. The maxims of expediency and selfish interests are not law. The will of princes, cabinets and counsellors is not the measure of obligation. The right of rule rests not on human conquests, nor is the power to rule the creation of a people. God alone is the ground and source of all."
(Dr. Nathaniel West Daniel's Great Prophecy, Ch.1)
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QUOTE FOR THE WEEK
"He whose thoughts rise a little above the trivial must not be surprised if he is thoroughly misunderstood by most men."
(Rothe in Stille Stunde)
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THE BIG PICTURE:
The Authority and Integrity of the Authentic Word of God
393 pp
“The translators of the Authorised Version translated not only words, but they took with them the linguistic structure of the text. Wherever possible they retained the punctuation, clauses, and subordinate clauses, figures of speech, and more besides. They have given us a virtual transcription of the Hebrew and Greek texts in a style of English that has never been surpassed. Modern versions violate the integrity of the text,...and frequently reconstruct the text in such a way that the meaning is changed, obscured, or even lost altogether. Modern versions are consequently rarely a genuine translation but an equivalent, a rewriting of the Bible. We do not need an ‘equivalent’, either formal or dynamic, but a faithful and sympathetic rendering of the Scriptures in a language we can readily understand.” (p. 346)
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Longer extracts here: SCRIPTURES