Faulty Vision

By Oscar M. Baker

“And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.” Now all that most folks can see in this passage is that there shall be a resurrection, both of the just and the unjust. That is as far as they can get. Their eyes will not take in the words hope and allow. And since this is inspired Scripture, are these words unimportant?

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Final Remarks #2

By Oscar M. Baker

[To begin this article, the very important key point from the last one of the same title, will be repeated.]

And so in the case of husbands and wives; husbands are to love their wives, and wives are to obey their own husbands (not the priest or preacher or anybody else) that is a close relationship.

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Getting An Understanding - The Parousia

By Joseph L. Watkins

As the 70 men that were called on to do the work of translating the Greek into the English of the King James Bible came to the words baptize (Strong's #907), baptism (3908), baptismos (#909) and baptistes (#910), they soon saw that they had a real difficult problem - they could not find an English word that expressed what was being said in the Greek words, so they took the sounds of the Greek letters to make a new English word. So we now have four new words “baptism” and other like-sounding words.

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