... dealing with it. We are certainly presented with the inescapable fact that Satan goes to and fro on the earth (Job.1:7; 2:2). As the Apostle Peter puts it: 'Your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour' (1 Pet.5:8). But because Satan and his ... on the Church, this Baptism with the Holy Spirit is shown to be for all those who come to Christ. As the Lord prophesied through His servant prophet, Isaiah: 'Hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen... I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods ... way of thinking, there never ...

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... of bishops, thereby paving the way for a concentration of power in ecclesiastical hands. Most important of all, the Council of Nicea decided, by vote, that Jesus was a god, not a mortal prophet (Baigent, 1985, p368). Upon the decision of the divinity of Christ, Arius was banished. A year after the Council of Nicea, Constantine sanctioned the confiscation and destruction of all works that ... authority the Church had to keep the faith in Jesus intact. Effectively, the best insurance to guard against a forgotten Jesus, would be the creation of a divine Jesus figure, for if a prophet may b...

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... told that the city of Jerusalem and the temple were rebuilt, "because the people had a mind to work". Without their work, the holy city would not have been rebuilt. The prophet Haggai urged the people to rebuild the temple. "They should work because the Lord was with them. The Lord would bless the work of the Lord's people". Later, in the ... to those under whom we work, regardless of who they are, or what their character is like. Christians should not obey only when they feel like it. Peter was even more definite about it. In I Peter 2:18 he says, "Servants be submissive to your master...

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