[Biblemat] How Is Unity Possible - Number 4

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HOW IS UNITY POSSIBLE? –  Number 4 

The nature of  man is such that free-moral-agency has a tendency to cause 
many to submit to the  fleshly desires more often that to the spiritual impulses 
that enter our heart.  This problem has always plagued mankind as the recorded 
history of man so  indicates.  
NOTE:  
The only  reliable historical account of humanity is the 66 books of the 
Hebrew and Greek  Bible. Since this  is the Book that God has given to mankind to 
help him know and follow God it  behooves man to pursue the instructions 
within the Bible so that he will be able  to make and maintain a good spiritual 
relationship with God. This is surely  taught first in Jeremiah 10:23, “O 
Jehovah, I know that the way of man  is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh 
to direct his steps.”  ASV 
Having an  indication from God that man is frail and subject to err surely 
suggests that  man cannot attain to unity on religious matters unless he/she is 
prepared to  submit their will to that of God. The will of God, of course is 
found in the  Bible. The great passages of Holy Scripture that teach this 
concept are many, a  few will suffice: 
Psalms 119:29-33, “29 Remove from me the way of  falsehood; and grant me thy 
law graciously. 30 I have chosen the way of  faithfulness: Thine ordinances 
have I set (before me). 31 I cleave unto thy  testimonies: O Jehovah, put me not 
to shame. 32 I will run the way of thy  commandments, when thou shall enlarge 
my heart. 33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way  of thy statutes; and I shall keep 
it unto the end.”  ASV 
Gal 5:22-25,  “22 But the  fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, 
longsuffering, kindness, goodness,  faithfulness, 23 meekness, self-control; against 
such there is no law. 24 And  they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the 
flesh with the passions and the  lusts thereof. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by 
the Spirit let us also walk.”  ASV 
The materialist and the  modernist must abandon their humanistic philosophies 
in order to understand and  appreciate the Bible and its history of man from 
creation to the present. To  fail in this process the materialist will be 
unable to bring them to accept the  Bible and therefore begin a process of 
learning that could eventually lead to  unity with others who are true  Christians.



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