A question answered for one of our readers: Was Jesus eternally begotten? If so, what does that mean? The phrase in question is found in multiple Baptist and Christian Confessions from yesteryear. In short, the phrase simply conveys the idea that Jesus has eternally existed as the only begotten Son of God. Note again, it…
Category: Jesus Christ
Resurrection Week Meditations
In the sense of a traditional “blog” entry, allow me to share my personal meditations and study from the past week. If you caught the entry from last Sunday, you know I had an interaction with a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses on my front lawn in which I basically “preached” them to the curb and…
Solomon’s Prayer and Christ our Temple
Recently, our Wednesday night studies led us to Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication for the Temple. As you recall, from the time of Moses until David, the worship of God was centered around a portable structure called The Tabernacle. Lest you think that inferior, God Himself ordered the production and the layout of the Tabernacle. Within…
The Error of Denying the Incarnation of Christ
By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger–June 1894 Hardly less mysterious and incomprehensible by our finite minds is the doctrine of the Incarnation of the Son of God, His manifestation in human nature, than the doctrine of the Divine Trinity; but no fact is more clearly revealed, in the Scriptures, to our faith, than the real…
The Genealogy Of Christ
By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger–August 1890 Having been specially requested to prepare an article on this interesting and important subject, I have just re-investigated the whole matter as thoroughly as I could, and will proceed to give the results of my inquiries.
The Doctrine Of Election
By Sylvester Hassell
A Dissertation Concerning The Eternal Sonship of Christ, Shewing By Whom It Has Been Denied And Opposed, and By Whom Asserted And Defended In All Ages Of Christianity.
By John Gill The eternal Sonship of Christ, or that he is the Son of God by eternal generation, or that he was the Son of God before he was the son of Mary, even from all eternity, which is denied by the Socinians, and others akin, to them, was known by the saints under…
The Error of Anti-Trinitarianism
By Sylvester Hassell The Gospel Messenger–May 1894 The doctrine of the Divine Trinity is the highest and greatest mystery of the Christian religion, far above the reason of all created intelligences, and to be received entirely upon faith. I hope that my brethren will bear with me while I try to write of this profound…
Daniel’s 70 Weeks & Christ Chronology
By David Pyles “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to makereconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlastingrighteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anointthe most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the…