As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Henry Knox personifies the perennial American virtues of dependability and ingenuity.1 He was George Washington’s chief artillery commander during much of the Revolutionary War. Knox was nobody’s version of a dashing soldier. A 1784 portrait shows a chubby, round-faced man with at least two chins. His shoulders slope downward as if he’s slouching for the portrait—one can just imagine the belly that must be there, despite being over six feet tall.
“Humanity continues to strive for utopia, but original sin makes it impossible to achieve. Just like no one can get eggs out of a cake that has been baked, no one can get the sin out of us and the world; no one, that is, except Jesus.” - Colin Smith
“ETS will mark its 75th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 14-16. As president, George will give a presidential address during the meeting. This year’s theme is ‘Theological Anthropology.’” - The Alabama Baptist
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Since we’ve raised the issue of Messianic prophecies, there are plenty of others worth adding to the pile:
“For Protestants to move forward in advancing God’s kingdom, we must remember the things that make us truly human. ‘It is a way of rebelling against the abolition of man.’” - Rick Plasterer, Carl Trueman
Natural theology “was not a novelty introduced at the time of the Enlightenment and it did not lead to or cause the Enlightenment.” - Credo
Miles Smith, one of the principal translators and editors of the King James Version, writing in the name of all the translators, penned “The Translators to the Readers,” an eleven-page preface or introduction to the original edition of the KJV, which, sadly, has been omitted from most KJV editions for the past 350 years. Therein, on unnumbered page 9, he wrote [I normalize spelling]—
“Many people in U.S., other advanced economies say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral” - Pew
“A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the help of ultraviolet photography, was able to discover a small manuscript fragment of a Syriac translation written in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century.” - Arkeonews
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