... portrayal in this body of Holy Scripture their history and indeed their future is set and secure in the eyes of God. The Old Testament illustrates many promises and blessings from the Lord pronounced upon the heads of His chosen people through their continued obedience and observance of Him. This is why many Jews ... the House of Israel. They, along with the rest of Christiandom follow the course of the New Testament, which states that the Jews apostasized and therefore lost their inheritance as the chosen people of God. The Mormons believe that this inheritance was given to them. Becau...

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... the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope". Jer 29:11 Throughout the Bible we encounter story after story where God uses many different people from different cultures, ages, races, and of different economic status to carry out his plans for the world. One of ... can gather from the beginning of Esther's story is that she is not vain or ostentatious, when she was finally being let into the court of the King she did not request any jewelry or clothes, she only wore what was given to her. A very defining moment in...

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You may have said this at least once in your life, or something of this nature. Perhaps you even shunned the Bible, saying its full of nothing but fairy tales that have never really happened ... was written over a period of about one thousand five hundred years by more than forty different authors, composed on three different continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe) and in three different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek). Considering this fact, the unity of this book is staggering! (McDowell 16) There are more than twenty four thousand manuscript copies of portions of ... McDowell in his bo...

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