The Gospel Of Repentance

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created them. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good .                                                                                                                         -Genesis 1:26-27;30         In the book of Genesis 6:5-7 we come to a dichotomy in God’s character. These verses read, Then the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was very sorry that He had made man on earth, and He was grieved at His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things

The term antediluvian means pre-flood. From the creation of the universe in Genesis 1 up to Genesis 6 was the existence before the flood of Noah. I want to concentrate in particular on  some the activity in the sixth chapter of Genesis. In Genesis 6:1-4 we read, Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves all of whom they chose. And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not always strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” [1] There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children  to them, those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. There are two views regarding who the sons of God are. The first view is that they are angels and second view is that they ar

Another way to ask this question is, “Does God treat everyone the same way?” The answer to the question is no. The opponent of that statement  would say, “God is partial then isn’t He?” The first thing we to do is define the word partiality which means to  show favor to someone or something over something or someone else. We show partiality to a particular person when we are fond of them. That means that person will receive benefits from us that others will not receive because of the importance of the relationship.  The person we favor has said or done something to merit or earn our favor. But God is not that way. Whoever we are, God rewards obedience and punishes disobedience as a universal rule. There are several passages that tell us that God is no respecter of persons : "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour." (Leviticus 19

Galatians 3:8, “And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the   Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, In you all the nations shall be blessed.” Romans 4:3b says, “Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”        The above text was originally recorded in Genesis 15:6 by Moses. Romans 4:3b and Genesis 15:6 is synonymous with II Corinthians 5:21, “He (Jesus) who knew no sin became sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” What all three verses declare is that when the sinner believes the word of God, God places His righteousness in the sinner’s account; God treats them as if they had never sinned. Here we   see the congruence between the OT and NT. Old Testament Saints were saved or justified by their faith in the word of God just like New Testament Saints are. The difference is that the OT Saints were looking ahead to the cross, whereas NT Saints look back at the cro

To all, these are mutually opposed realities. They should never be paired in the same phrase most would say. But, does the Bible condone slavery in any way? The answer is yes. Bible translators uses the word servant in place of slave because of the negative connation the word slave has. The word servant contains several meanings. Two of those meanings in the Greek language are: doulos , meaning “in bondage”. It also means to be in subjection without bondage. The verb form of doulos is douloo which means “to enslave to bring into bondage” Because of the horrendous, evil slave trade enterprise of blacks by whites, the Trans Atlantic Slave trade/Middle Passage of the last few centuries along with the inhumane treatment of blacks slaves by white slave masters in America, the reality of slavery in the Bible is abhorrent by all people. That is why many people do not believe the Bible because they automatically assume the slavery that was permitted in scripture was the same harsh servit