The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" RevelationsGraves, Kersey
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The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations
Graves, Kersey
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79. Why was the sabbath instituted? Because "God rested on the sabbath
day" (Exod. xx. 11). Because "he delivered his people on that day"
(Deut. vi. 15).
80. Is it right to observe the sabbath? Yes: "Remember the sabbath day
to keep it holy." No: "Your new moons and your sabbaths,... I can not
away with. It is iniquity" (Isa. i. 12).
81. Is it right to judge? Yes: "Judge righteous Judgment" (John vii.
24). No: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Matt. vii. 2).
82. Can a man work miracles without divine aid? No: "No man can work
such miracles except God be with him" (John iii. 2). Yes: "The Egyptians
did in like manner with their enchantments" (Exod. vii. 10).
83. Can any man ascend to heaven? Yes: "Elijah ascended in a chariot
of fire" (2 Kings ii.11). No: "No man hath ascended up to heaven" (John
iii. 13). Yes: "All men must see death" (Heb. ix. 27). No: "Enoch did
not see death" (Heb. xi. 5).
84. Should we fear death? Yes: "Christ walked not in Jewry because the
Jews sought to kill him" (John vii. 1). No: "Fear not them that kill the
body" (Matt. x. 28).
85. Will the earth ever be destroyed? Yes: "The earth also shall
be burned up" (2 Pet. iii 10). No: "But the earth abideth for ever"
(Eccles. i. 4).
86. Does the Bible teach a future life? Yes: "They shall go away into
everlasting punishment" (Matt. xxv. 46). No: "For that which befelleth
men befalleth beasts;... as the one dieth, so dieth the other," &c.
(Eccles. iii. 19).
87. Does the Bible teach a future resurrection? Yes: "The dead shall be
raised" (Cor. xv. 52). No: "They shall not rise" (Isa. xxvi.14). Yes:
"The saints came up out of the ground" (Matt, xxvii. 62). No: "Those who
go down into the grave never come up again" (Job vii. 9).
88. Are the actions of men ever to be judged according to the Bible?
First, "The Father judgeth no man" (John v. 22). Second, "I [Jesus
Christ] judge no man" (John viii. 15). So there is to be no judgment.
89. No: "God saw every thing was corrupt" (Gen. vi. 11). Yes: "God saw
every thing he had made was good" (Gen. i. 31).
90. Yes: "God forgives the sinner" (Jer. xxxi. 34). No: "God kills the
sinner" (Ezek. xviii. 20).
91. Yes: "God justifies the ungodly" (Rom. iv. 5). No: "God will not
clear the guilty" (Exod. xxxiv. 7).
92. Yes: "Man is justified by the law" (Rom. ii. 13). No: "Man can not
be justified by the law" (Gal. iii. 11).
93. Yes: "Many have sinned without the law" (Rom. ii.12). No: "Where
there is no law there is no transgression" (Rom. iv. 18).
94. Yes: "Heaven is a kingdom that can not be moved" (Heb. xii. 18). No:
"I will shake heaven and earth" (Heb. xii. 26).
95. Yes: "Every thing is afraid of man" (Gen. i. 28). No: "The lion is
not afraid of man" (Prov. xxx. 30).
96. Yes: "Every man in his own tongue" (Gen. x. 5). No: "The whole earth
one tongue" (Gen. xi. 1).
97. Yes: "All things are become new" (2 Cor. v. 17). No: "There is
nothing new under the sun" (Eccles. i. 9).
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