Eternal Verities 1A

For today's study I'm going to copy a thought paper and we're going to delve into more about the what I was talking about yesterday, the Godhead and eternal truths. I'll intersperse it with my own thoughts and probably end up breaking it up into digestable pieces, meaning give it bit by bit so it's not overwhelming and gives us time to think about what's being presented. If you're reading this you'll have access to the internet and as such it's easy to check various facts such as the meaning of Greek and Hebrew words. Don't hesitate to take time to check things for yourself. We are accountable for what we can do and that means seeking the knowledge where we can. In our time we live in something called the 'Information Age' and it is. Information is right at our fingertips and we have to avail ourselves of it.


May God bless us as we seek to understand more fully His will, His way, the truths that we need to know and believe as this world becomes more and more deceptive.

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1998 Jan -- XXXI -- 1(98) WWN

The Eternal Verities - Part 1 -- THE GODHEAD -- The great divide between two eternities; the great divide in time, and in the chronological reckoning of time, was the Incarnation.


(((My thoughts- It's so true isn't it? BC and AD. It's no mistake that time has been divided this way.

*Before Christ (abbreviated as BC or B.C.) are designations used to label years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The calendar era to which they refer is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, with AD denoting years after the start of this epoch, and BC denoting years before the start of this epoch.

*Anno Domini (abbreviated as AD or A.D., sometimes found in the irregular form Anno Domine) The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin, translated as In the year of (the/Our) Lord.[1][2]:782 It is sometimes specified more fully as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ").

*The Gregorian calendar, and the year numbering system associated with it, is the calendar system with the most widespread use in the world today. For decades, it has been the unofficial global standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. It is also a basis of scholarly dating - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

Jesus' birth, the incarnation divided time- no other birth in all of history has had such impact, NONE. We are reminded daily of living in the years after the birth of Christ. Everytime we write a date we are aware on some level of this. Talk about having a reminder to all of Jesus. The next time you have to write the date, or have reason to note the year you are actually noting the number of years since Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, the Son of man, the Son of God was born. Amazing.

Because I want to keep these studies very compact and something for us to leave thinking about and contemplating I'm really going to break up the study into small parts, very small parts because it's just easier to digest that way. So let's consider this one bite in our study and we'll take another bite tomorrow. For now let's savor the knowledge that most of us knew but don't often think about. AD and BC the Incarnation, the birth of the Son of God dividing our timeline.

May God bless us as we study, may the Lord enlighten us as we so need to be enlightened. By the grace and mercy of our Lord, our Savior in His love forever.

Amen.