Favorite Things: Toy Truck

I’ve run out of scanned old photos and the thought of digging out another one, scanning it and posting it, makes my brain hurt. (Can you tell today was busy?) Instead of a Saturday’s Old Photo, let’s post a Favorite Things photo, because I already have a couple of those.

This is a toy truck made by my husband. I think it’s made of oak, but what do I know?

He made several of these. Both sons have one, a couple of friends have them, and maybe a cousin or two. This one is an extra, so it’s never been used. I suppose you could say it’s our display model.

The ones the boys have are not nearly so pristine, but it’s hard to haul loads of  building material for wooden block houses without getting a chip or two. This truck is versatile, too: Take the racks off the back and you’ve got flat bed, in case you need to haul a toy car or boat.

How KJV-Onlyism Is Incompatible with Sola Scriptura

I’m working on moving some of the posts from my old blog over to this one, so I may occasionally repost a re-editted one. And that’s what this is—an editted old post.

 

What I’m hoping to show in this piece is that adherents of KJV-Onlyism, while claiming to be faithful to the principle that the Bible should the final arbitrator of faith and practice, in reality use things other than scripture as the final arbitrator of faith and practice when it come to the issue of acceptable texts and translations of the scripture. First, let me explain that in this post I’m not referring to people who prefer to use the King James Version of the Bible, or even those who prefer to use only the King James Version of the Bible, but with the strain of KJV-Onlyism that teaches that the King James Version of the Bible is the only true word of God in the English language. (This last category is the only catergory that I would lable KJV-Onlyist. The first two categories I call KJV preferred.)

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What is the communion in glory with Christ

The communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in holiness,[1] and received into the highest heavens,[2] where they behold the face of God in light and glory,[3] waiting for the full redemption of their bodies,[4] which even in death continue united to Christ,[5] and rest in their graves as in their beds,[6] till at the last day they be again united to their souls.[7] Whereas the souls of the wicked are at their death cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, and their bodies kept in their graves, as in their prisons, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.[8]

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