Browsing the archives for the Foundations category
Your perspective, on any given circumstance is based on the set of experiences and education. This explains why, for the most part, liberals have liberal kids, conservatives have conservative kids. Why Catholics beget little Catholics, Baptists little Baptists, Muslims little Muslims, Buddhists little Buddhists, you get the picture.
Why is this?
When we read the New Testament as a modern fundamentalist evangelical Christian, most of us don’t have a clue to the context of the writings. We view ALL of the scriptures thru our twenty-first century Gentile-Christian “World View Filter”. It is difficult, if not impossible to understand what was written almost 2,000 years ago without understanding the circumstances, religious teachings, common practices and customs of the day. Most, if not all, of the writings are deeply ingrained in Jewish culture and beliefs. We are foolish, naive at best, to believe that we can read a few verses here and there and get the true meaning of the message that is called the Gospel.
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The Sabbath
The “First day of the Week”, “The Lord’s Day” and Sabbath
by Clint Branham
Why do I think that I have gotten this knowledge when thousands of scholars over a hundreds of years haven’t come to the same conclusions? Ya’ll aren’t the first to ask us this. This is the very question thatwe have asked each other many times when we started down this path.
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