Using just the Hebrew Scriptures, Paul explained and proved Jesus was the long awaited Messiah.
Acts 16:25-17:9
Jesus is the Messiah; Here’s the Proof!
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How Scribes Copied The Ancient Text
In this fascinating video teaching (of approximately 37 minutes), Josh McDowell walks us through the very intricate and elaborate process involved in the making of a scroll of the Hebrew Scriptures. The Jewish scribes had such great reverence for the text that it was of the utmost importance to preserve it accurately. A scribe had to undergo stringent testing before he was qualified for the task which included memorizing 4, 000 laws. This was to ensure the text would be copied, pronounced, and interpreted precisely. In the video we are also introduced to one of the rarest scrolls in the world, called the Lodz Torah Scroll.
Universality and Particularity
John Calvin, chapter 22:
Section 10. THE UNIVERSALITY OF GOD’S INVITATION AND THE PARTICULARITY OF ELECTION
Some object that God would be contrary to himself if he should universally invite all men to him but admit only a few as elect. Thus, in their view, the universality of the promises removes the distinction of special grace; and some moderate men speak thus, not so much to stifle the truth as to bar thorny questions, and to bridle the curiosity of many. A laudable intention, this, but the design is not to be approved, for evasion is never excusable. But those who insolently revile election offer a quibble too disgusting, an error too shameful.
I have elsewhere explained how Scripture reconciles the two notions that all are called to repentance and faith by outward preaching, yet that the spirit of repentance and faith is not given to all. Soon I shall have to repeat some of this. Now I deny what they claim, since it is false in two ways. For he who threatens that while it will rain upon one city there will be drought in another [Amos 4:7], and who elsewhere announces a famine of teaching [Amos 8:11], does not bind himself by a set law to call all men equally. And he who, forbidding Paul to speak the word in Asia [Acts 16:6], and turning him aside from Bithynia, draws him into Macedonia [Acts 16:7 ff.] thus shows that he has the right to distribute this treasure to whom he pleases. Continue reading