The Oneness of God
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I would like to state that the second coming of Christ is more certain to be full filled than for the sun to rise tomorrow morning. God has not promised a sunrise tomorrow but He has promised that His Son will return to this earth--no matter how much time has passed.
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About the Book
As I write this introduction to this book, I look back over the years when I first started to make notes in my bible or notebook, it occurred to me that it began over a half century ago. I attended church and Sunday school on a regular basis and was very interested in learning more about what the future holds for me and my family. The notes I made were mostly in the form of questions rather than things that I had learned. I became convinced that no matter what one believes they could go to the bible and turn to a scripture and prove why they believe what they do. I am also convinced that ninety-five percent of us blindly follow our ancestry without concern as to whether it was according to God’s word or not. I suppose I am a maverick because I question or try to prove everything that doesn’t make sense to me. Hence, most of my notes were questions. In trying to find answers, I read commentaries, listened to teachers and scholars and came up with as many different answers as there were people dispensing them. I finally decided to go to the Lord and ask Him to enlighten me where there was so much disagreement among our fellow Christians. I was amazed at how God will enlighten one who is willing to study his word, pray and meditate on those things that are of concern. I have awakened in the middle of the night many times and my thoughts would go to something about which I had been praying. This seemed to be the time that God used to reveal an answer to me. So many people get upset when they wake up during the night and cannot get back to sleep. For me, this is the time I get closer to my Lord than any other. About two years ago when I was seventy-seven years old, the Lord impressed upon me to write all the things down which He had given me and reminded me that my lifetime is running out. I started gathering my material towards that end, but somehow I didn’t get started. I felt the need to get some other things accomplished before I started this book.
About the Author
I was born in the
After my discharge from military service, I married my wife in 1948 and we celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary this year. We have two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
About four years after we were married, I felt the need to get my spiritual life back on track. In 1952 I was convinced by a minister that I was lost and needed to be saved. Not understanding much about the scriptures, I committed my life to Jesus again and was baptized the second time. I have tried to remain faithful every since that time and have studied the scriptures diligently.
Over the years while attending Sunday School, prayer services, doctrinal classes, preaching and evangelical services, there were a lot of questions that kept coming to my mind that I thought should be addressed.
A few years ago I asked myself this question: If I had not been taught or influenced by other people, would my understanding of the bible be as it is or might it be entirely different. I think the answer is that 99% of the Christian community believes as they do due to influence of their family, friend or other close associates rather than what they have learned from God’s Word.
After realizing this fact, I’ve made it a point to try to study the bible as if I were alone on an island with only God’s Word and the Holy Spirit. I asked myself, would I have reached the same conclusions as I would have with all the other influences that I have experienced through the years? The answer is in many cases – NO.
The following is a partial list of subjects I will discuss in this book. Most of them you have never heard discussed as they will be here.