THE WORD OF GOD (cont.) policies. See I Peter 1:10, 11. One such prophecy will suffice. In Isaiah 44:28- 45:13 the prophet declared that there would arise a heathen man named Cyrus who would destroy the Babylon ian Empire and return the Jews to their land. When he prophesied, the Jews were not in captivity, the Persian Em pire did not exist, and the king was not yet born. One hundred and five years later Jeremiah prophesied in chapter 25:8-14 that the Jews would be in captivity for seventy years and that at the end of that period the Bab ylonian nation would fall. 175 years after the first prophecy and seventy years after the second, both were ful filled as recorded in Ezra 1. Nobody but God could have made a prophecy like this and have fulfilled it. Yet, this is only typical of dozens within the Word of God. I turned away from my study con vinced that this Book does not contain the Word of God but that it is the Word of God. I turned away convinced that not only the great truths but also
the little ones and the details as well, were inspired by God the Holy Spirit. I turned away from the study con vinced by the Word itself that every word is God-breathed as Paul states in II Timothy 3:16. Last eve I paused beside a blacksmith’s door, And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime; Then looking in, I saw upon the floor, Old hammers worn with beating years of time. ‘How many anvils have you had,’ said I, ‘To wear and batter all these hammers so?’ ‘Just one,’ said he, and then with twink ling eye, ‘The anvils wear the hammers out you know.’ ‘And so,’ I thought, ‘The Anvil of God’s Word For ages skeptic blows have beat upon, Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard, The Anvil is unharmed, the hammers GONE.’
This We Believe
The Trinity
by Robert L. Saucy, Th.D. Professor English Bible and Systematic Theology Talbot Theological Seminary among the religions of mankind. It is only thè revealed God of the Christian who is the Triune God. The fathers of the infant church struggled with the concept of the God of the Scriptures, seeking to formul iate, accurately, the truth concerning the Trinity in the face of heretical thinking. Some erred on the one hand declaring the Father, Son and Holy 6
“ I s long as you have sincere faith -TaL toward God that is all that matters.” Such reasoning is common among religious peoples of the world, even among professing Christians. This thinking is undoubtedly based upon the belief that all are wor shipping the same God. But it is pre cisely the nature of the true Christian’s God which makes Christianity unique
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