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Charles Spurgeon Uncensored writes : Charles Spurgeon mixed Hinduism with Christianity by giving God the TITLES of Hindu gods—"the Preserver" and "the Destroyer." The post with the title, "the Creator" is found in Charles Spurgeon's sermon, "The Echo" No. 767. The post with title, "the Preserver" is found in Spurgeon's sermon, "Who is This?" No. 3394. The post with the title, "the Destroyer" is found in Spurgeon's sermon, "The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age" No. 1815. The King James Bible refers to God, the Creator/the creator five times, so Spurgeon's use of "the Creator" as a title for God, is biblical but he leavened the lump by also giving God the titles of Hindu gods—"the Preserver" and "the Destroyer." Here Spurgeon gave God the title, "Lord of the Universe" which is the Hindu god, Lord Vishnu.  By way of reply… No, that’s just legalism.  1...
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Covenant Theology In Outline Form 36: Matthew 19 on Divorce & Remarriage

Shema Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.  Historical Prologue  2  And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3  And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”  General Stipulations  4  He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,  5  and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?  6  So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  Specific Stipulations  7  They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”  The Historical Regulation 8  He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you ...
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Tackling Tradition 93: Analogical Porneia

According to Bill Mounce, the lexical definition of porneia is as follows. Gloss sexual immorality, fornication, marital unfaithfulness, prostitution, adultery, a generic term for sexual sin of any kind Definition fornication, whoredom, Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21; Acts 15:20, 29; concubinage, Jn. 8:41; adultery,Mt. 5:32; 19:9; incest, 1 Cor. 5:1; lewdness, uncleanness, genr., Rom. 1:29; from the Hebrew, put symbolically for idolatry,Rev. 2:21; 14:8 I our previous two articles (Iverson On Divorce & Remarriage) we saw the way Mr. Iverson overlooks the fact that the term “adultery,” like the term “porneia,” is used by God in Jeremiah in figurative, analogical fashion.  In Jeremiah 3:8, God says that he gave faithless Israel a certificate of divorce for her adulteries.    Hosea’s major theme centers on a great big prophetic sign act in which God commands Hosea to marry Gomer who prostitutes herself so much that she is in the thrall of another lover, & although according to ...
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