The company started by Susie Carter and featured on Oprah Winfrey Show, features single Alaskan Men, their articles, photos, and contact method.

The company started by Susie Carter and featured on Oprah Winfrey Show, features single Alaskan Men, their articles, photos, and contact method.

Memoirs of O. Ellis Arnold's fifteen years teaching in northern Alaska government schools with his wife, Dorothy Marie Macy Arnold. Map, totem, and historical photos.

Memoirs of O. Ellis Arnold's fifteen years teaching in northern Alaska government schools with his wife, Dorothy Marie Macy Arnold. Map, totem, and historical photos.

Gary McNees wrote:

> Why o why do people like so much to contradict Scripture?
>
> Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
> your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give
> good things to them that ask him?
>
> Gary

Have you read, "The plowing of the wicked is sin?" or "The sacrifice of the
wicked is an abomination?" Both of these are, in principle, good works; the
former feeds the family (fathers give their children bread) and the latter
constitutes worship. But both are decried as _evil_.

Gary, the point that is made in Scripture is that good deeds aren't good
unless the person who does them is regenerate. This is why our righteousness
is as filthy rags. It is not that we don't do things that are in principle
good--and I don't think any Calvinist you ever talk to would say
otherwise--but the simple fact that we are the ones who do them.

You seem to fixate on the work / faith instead of the actor, when it is the
latter that counts, not the former.


To avoid this, you must demonstrate from Scripture that every man has been
"fixed" in this regard, so that his flesh no longer poses the barrier that it
apparently did when such proverbs were written--and suddenly you are left
looking at works-based righteousness, _whether you count faith as a work or not_.


-Ethan

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(~) Are You Ready to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

November 6, 2005

Amos 5:18-24 or
Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16
Psalm 70 or
Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Matthew 25:1-13

Are You Ready to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Christ will return for a glorious and holy church without faults or spots
or wrinkles or any other flaws (Ephesians 5:27). Are you ready for his
return?

The parable that Jesus tells his disciples in Matthew 25:1-13 relates the
church to ten virgins. Virgin, by definition, means to be in a pure state
without faults -- perfect and sinless. Scripture tells us that Christ
loved the church and gave his life for her, so that he might sanctify and
cleanse her with the washing of water by the word of God (Ephesians 5:25b,
26) -- the lamp that guides us in right
living (Psalm 119:105).

Five of the virgins were foolish and five were wise. The two groups of
virgins represent two different groups in the church. The ones with the
oil were like a bride dressed in her wedding gown and ready to meet her
husband (Revelation 21:2), while those who had used up their oil simply
were not ready.

Jesus wants each of us to be a