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He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.
By his wounds you have been healed.
–1 Peter 2:24 (ESV)–

²¹ But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. ²² This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies
those who have faith in Jesus.
–Romans 3:21-26 (NIV)–

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
–Revelation 20:11-12 (KJV)–

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John F. Johnson, “Luther on Justification,” Concordia Theological Monthly 38, no. 43 (1967): 417-419. Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana is a school for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), and is currently the online publisher of this theological journal. But the original print versions came from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Uuras Saarnivaara, Luther Discovers the Gospel (Concordia, 1951).

Ewald Plass, ed. What Luther Says: An Anthology, 3 vols (Concordia, 1959).

John Wesley, “The Scripture Way of Salvation” 1.3. We are at present concerned only with that salvation which the Apostle is directly speaking of. And this consists of two general parts, justification and sanctification.

God be in my head
And in my understanding

God be in mine eyes
And in my looking

God be in my mouth
And in my speaking

God be in my heart
And in my thinking

God be at mine end
And at my departing

–Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, “God Be In My Head”–

In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth
That’s what the Word of God says
On the very first page

But then I went to school
And the science teacher taught me
That the world was formed by itself
Over millions of years

And so the animals began to come about
From different kinds of animals that came before
And starfish turned into dogs and cats
Hedgehogs and monkeys turned into people

The teacher showed us a painting all about it
And that means that it’s the truth
Because dinosaur fossils were found in the ground
That means the world is billions of years old

I was told not to believe in God
And the Bible’s just a fairy tale
That the paintings in my science class were true
And that people are just really smart monkeys

The paintings in my biology book
The pictures in my geology book
The verses in Genesis chapter 1
Some people said to just mix ’em all together

–“Millions of Bones and Years”–

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God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
–Genesis 1:24-26 (NIV)–

Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God.
–2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)–

Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
–1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV)–

The fool says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
    there is no one who does good.
–Psalm 14:1 (NIV)–

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
–Romans 1:18-23 (NIV)–

I use that trust to effectively brainwash them…our teaching methods are primarily those of propaganda. We appeal–without demonstration–to evidence that supports our position. We only introduce arguments and evidence that supports the currently accepted theories and omit or gloss over any evidence to the contrary.
–Dr. Mark Singham, Physics Professor–

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Dr. Henry Morris, “The Scientific Case Against Evolution.”

Dr. John R. Rice, Evolution or the Bible–Which? (Sword of the Lord, 1963).

The Bible: In the Beginning (20th Century Fox, 1966).

Wikipedia, “Qurna.” Local folklore holds that Qurna, Iraq is the specific location where the Garden of Eden used to exist in Genesis 2:10, 14.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 12th ed. (London, 1922), p. 563. “Qurna, the legendary site of the Garden of Eden.”

Iraq: A Tourist’s Guide (State Organization for Tourism, 1975), p. 47. “Al-Qurna, where the Tigris joins the Euphrates. It is the legendary spot of the Garden of Eden.” Smartraveller: “We continue to advise: Do not travel to Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, due to the volatile security situation and the threat of terrorism, armed conflict, kidnapping and violent crime.”

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
–Matthew 5:11 (KJV)–

The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
–1 Corinthians 1:18 (KJV)–

Let no man deceive himself.
If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
–1 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)–

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ;
we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
–1 Corinthians 4:10 (KJV)–

The worship of creation
Seeming endless
But it will end
And every knee shall bow

Thoughts of a coincidental existence
And a futureless world corrodes into the
Spinal chord of the narcissistic man
A paradigm shift for worse
My ego is my god
Given authority by the enlightenment
Of science
The enlightenment of the age of freedom
Freedom – the name in which we legalize all
The name in which we tolerate all

Credibility for truth, image for substance
Weakness and failure
Unbearable elements in life
Subtly opposed through an endless flow of
Constantly replaced trends, neither allowed
To mature nor to fade
The surroundings
A mirror reflecting the signals
Of admiration that makes my identity
A constant egocentricity providing a
Purging of anything threatening popularity

The peak of this shallowness
Displayed by the so-called stars
In their quest for self-actualisation
This beautiful people experiencing
The illusion of narcissistic prosperity
Uncritically and boundlessly admired
Simply for their own sake

–Extol, “Paradigms”–

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Dr. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints (Zondervan, 1986), ch. 5: “Family.”

Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About Rock Music (Sword of the Lord, 1985).

David Wilkerson, Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth (World Challenge, 1985), ch. 4.

Originally from here.

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David Wilkerson, New Hope for Homosexuals (Teen Challenge, 1964).

—. Two of Me (Garden Valley Publishers, 1980).

Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 1978).

Martin Bennett, I’m Gay…O.K.? (Last Days Ministries, 1984).

Leonard Ravenhill, Be Ye Angry And Sin Not (Last Days Ministries, 1982). I am angry when I read a letter from my friend and neighbor David Wilkerson announcing this near unbelievable perversion.

“Homosexuals now claim more than 50,000 members in their ‘all homosexual’ churches. The Metropolitan Community Church is one of many homosexual denominations springing up across the nation. I sent an observer to one of their annual ‘Holy Ghost’ conventions in Dallas, Texas. What unbelievable blasphemy!

“Each delegate, as they registered, was given a packet which included, among other things, two ‘boy’ magazines of all nude men and a list of all the gay bars in Dallas – so that delegates could leave the evening service, go to their selected bar, and connect with a lover for the night. And those delegates call themselves ‘ministers.’ How they did sing! They praised the Lord with enthusiasm; but their evangelist corrupted the Gospel beyond comprehension. He said, ‘Sure, Paul condemned men who changed the natural use and burned one toward another. But that’s not us. We didn’t change anything. We were born this way. So, come out of your closets. Be filled with the Holy Ghost, and enjoy your homosexuality!”

My anger over this is intensified when I read that the cutback in federal spending will cause some old folks to miss meals. Yet the same federal folks on the 5th of May, 1981, gave the Metropolitan Community (homosexual) Church $380,000 of our tax money to operate four resettlement centers for Cuban refugee homosexuals. (Just let the true Church of Jesus try to get the government to give us a dime to rescue men from an eternal hell!)