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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

If we are focused on rule keeping, if we are focused on earning God's acceptance through our efforts, if we are focused on trying to meet the convictions and standards of others, God becomes a gloomy killjoy and the vibrant relationship we desire with Him becomes dull, distant and difficult to bear. As we spin the plates of legalism, our Christian walk increasingly becomes a burden with the continual addition of another plate. And to keep the plates spinning, we'll focus more on the plates, our legalistic rulebook, than our intimate and exciting and joyful walk with the living God.
Randy Smith

A seeker becomes a true Christian because God does something, creating desire for Him and distaste for sin. If God is at work, you cannot help rejecting your independence and coming to Him. You will place your trust in Him because there is nothing else left to trust. You will love Him because He is irresistible to you.
Jim Elliff

    • A Word About The Apocrypha

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    A Word About The Apocrypha

    A word about the Apocrypha, author unknown.

    The canon (meaning “standard”) is the officially accepted list of books which make up the Bible. The test to decide whether a book fits into the canon is this: Is it authoritative? Is it prophetic? Is it authentic? Is it dynamic? Was it recieved, collected, and used? The need of the canon was realized when the Christians of the world began needing a common “instruction book” of the Christian faith. The Apocrypha means “hidden or concealed” from the Greek word apokruphos. The reasons why it was not accepted were: They abound with historical and geographical inaccuracies and anachronisms, they teach doctrines which are false and foster practices which are at variance with inspired scripture, they resort to literary tyoes and display an artificiality of subject matter and styling out of keeping with inspired Scripture, and they lack the distinctive elements which give genuine Scripture their divine character, such as prophetic power and poetic and religous feeling. They consist of: I Esdras, II Edras, Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, The Wisdom of Soloman, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Bel and the Dragon, The Song of the Three Hebrew Children, The Prayer of Manasseh, I Maccabees.

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