The Cause of It All

Views: 70[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.] Our physical/material world and we, ourselves, are not eternal; death, decay, and depletion remind us that the material universe of which we are a part is temporary. This important fact implies…

The Bible and Illness

Views: 82[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.]        Illness is a universal phenomenon. It doesn’t depend upon whether one is rich or poor, righteous, or unrighteous, what race he may be, or the age in which he may…

Biblical Ignorance: Consequences

Views: 95[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.]             If one is totally ignorant of the Bible, so that he never learns its message of salvation, he will be lost eternally (Mark 16:15–16; 2 The. 1:8–9). Even those…

The Adequate Cause

Views: 101 [Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The matter is really very simple: We live in a cause-effect universe—every effect must have a cause, yea, an adequate or sufficient cause, to explain it. A wristwatch implies a…

The Ethic of Honesty

Views: 83[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.          Introduction Willard Sperry tells an interesting story in the book, We Prophesy in Part, of a 19th century preacher of some repute.1 He preached the same sermon in three different New York…

The Only Adequate Cause

Views: 2[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2   page.] We live in a cause-effect universe—every effect must have a cause, yea, an adequate or sufficient cause, to explain it. A wristwatch implies a watchmaker. A house implies a designer…

Proving the Existence of God

Views: 4[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Longer Articles page.] Introduction There are only two possible positions relative to the existence of God: Either He does or He does not exist. The absolutely fundamental issue to Christians is belief in God….