Amazing Grace is 250 years old
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Things you probably didn’t know: “1. The Library of Congress has an amazing ‘Amazing Grace’ collection…. 2. One of the verses of ‘Amazing Grace’ was stolen.” - TGC
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Things you probably didn’t know: “1. The Library of Congress has an amazing ‘Amazing Grace’ collection…. 2. One of the verses of ‘Amazing Grace’ was stolen.” - TGC
“After many years of expectation, we will soon begin uncovering this important site and make it accessible to the millions of visitors and tourists who visit Jerusalem every year” - CPost
“From papyrus in Montana to ivory in Jerusalem, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the biblical world say ‘wow’ this year.” - CToday
“The moral philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) involves a merger of at least two apparently disparate traditions: Aristotelian eudaimonism and Christian theology.” - Providence
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11. CT interprets the Bible from an anthropocentric rather than a Theocentric point of view.
A little more than 2,000 years ago, “When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law” (Gal. 4:4, NKJV). It was exactly the right time, as predicted by Daniel (cf. 9:25) and confirmed by Jesus (cf. Luke 19:41-44).
It was also the right place—Bethlehem, six miles south of Jerusalem. Seven hundred years earlier, Micah wrote:
The idea of Christ’s birth being on December 25 doesn’t fit Saturnalia (Dec 17-23) and predates Sol Invictus (AD 274). - P&D
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