Greenville Oaks Church of Christ
God isn't behind the times. God is ahead of us. God is pulling us forward a click at a time. The new heavens and the new earth aren't far from us now.
Hebrews 11:1-2 NIV
Hebrews 11:13 NIV
5 Acts in Scripture:
1) Creation
2) Fall
3) Israel
4) Jesus
5) Church
Hebrews 11:39 NIV
Hebrews 11:40 NIV
Hebrews 11:39-40 NIV
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NIV
The Bible is a library of radically progressive books - books that were ahead of their time.
“Where the Bible has been in the household, and read without hindrance by parents and children together – there you have had an indomitable yeomantry, a state that would not have a tyrant on the throne, a government that would not have a slave or serf in the field."
- Henry Ward Beecher
“That the relation betwixt the slave and his master is not inconsistent with the word of God, we have long since settled…. We cherish the institution not from avarice, but from principle.”
- James Henley Thornwell
Exodus 21:20-21 NIV
“If it were a matter to be determined by personal sympathies, tastes, or feelings, I should be as ready as any man to condemn the institution of slavery, for all prejudices of education, habit, and social position stand entirely opposed to it. But as a Christian… I am compelled to submit my weak and erring intellect to the authority of the Almighty. For then only can I be safe in my conclusions.”
- John Henry Hopkins
1 Kings 9:15 NIV