Cannot Come Down

     "I am doing a great work," says Nehemiah, "so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?" (Nehemiah 6:3).

     Yahuwah's people should not relax their watchfulness, or their vigilance, for one moment. Satan is upon our track. He is determined to overcome Yahuwah's commandment-keeping people with his temptations. If we give no place to the Devil, but resist his devices, steadfast in the faith, we shall have strength to depart from all iniquity. Those who keep the commandments of Yahuwah will be a power in the land, if they live up to their light and their privileges.

Bible Passages Of Salvation

Bible passages

The New International Version of the New Testament contains 138 verses that with the words "salvation" (45), "save" (41) or "saved" (52). The following are some of the New Testament passages most cited in this regard:

• Belief and baptism:
  • "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."^[Mk. 16:16]

Praise Due to the Creator

Yahuwah is love. He has a care for the creatures he has formed. "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Master pitieth them that fear him" (Psalms 103:13).  He has not designed that his creatures should be miserable. Have any of us duly considered how much we have to be thankful for? Do we remember that the mercies of the Master are new every morning, and that his faithfulness faileth not? Do we acknowledge our dependence upon him, and express gratitude for all his favors?

FIVE MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS by Stan Griffin

Religion has played an important part in the history of our world. Religious teachings have shaped the lives of people since prehistoric times. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity have been major influences in the formation of Western culture. They have also played an important role in the development of Middle Eastern life. Asian civilizations have been affected by Buddhist teachings.

Buddhism ( Part 2)

Salvation and the Afterlife

Buddhism sees ignorance rather than sin as the roadblock to salvation. That is, the belief that the world and self truly exist, keeps the illusory wheel of existence rolling--only destruction of that belief will stop the mad course of the world.
Its doctrine is summed up in the Four Noble Truths: (1) life is basically suffering, or dissatisfaction; (2) the origin of that suffering lies in craving or grasping; (3) the cessation of suffering is possible through the cessation of craving; and (4) the way to cease craving and so attain escape from continual rebirth is by following Buddhist practice, known as the Noble Eightfold Path.

Buddhism ( Part 1)

Introduction

Buddhism arose out of atheistic strands of Hinduism current in India in the sixth century B.C. Gautama, called the Buddha ("Enlightened One"), is said to have discovered that both the life of luxury and the life of extreme asceticism were of no use in gaining spiritual freedom; thus he propounded the "Middle Way." His teaching, however, was to undergo many transformations.

Salvation in Buddhism

Buddhism accepts the principles of samsara and karma (Pali: kamma), but it differs in one important respect from the Hindu conception of man. Instead of believing that an atman, or soul, passes through endless series of incarnations, Buddhism teaches that there is no such preexistent immortal soul that migrates from body to body