Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Creator defines humanity

And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth. So God created man in his owne Image, in the Image of God created hee him; male and female created hee them. And God blessed them, and God said vnto them, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer euery liuing thing that mooueth vpon the earth. 
 - Genesis 1:26-28 KJV-1611

The first prophecy defines marriage

The first man (and first prophet) defines marriage:

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shalbe called woman, because shee was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue vnto his wife: and they shalbe one flesh. And they were both naked, the man & his wife, and were not ashamed. 
 - Genesis 2:23-25 KJV-1611

Sunday, May 26, 2013

An invaluable, but little noticed, gift

"[F]or if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one--Jesus Christ."   - Romans 5:17 YLT

It is the "abundance" of the "free gift" of Righteousness that is not being reported. The begotten again have received the gift. But the reports of receiving and enjoying the abundance of the gift, and of reigning in life, seem but faint echoes of the words of the apostles.