News and Information from

www.CharacterofGod.org

May 25, 2023

 This newsletter reports news from and additions to www.characterofgod.org since the last newsletter (February 10, 2023). Aside from additions listed herein, I am always making improvements to pages to make this website a valuable resource and hub of information about the character of God, the people who are foremost in promoting it and more.

 The Character of God and the Gospel Glossary

 This is a valuable resource to help understand terms that are understood differently between the Traditional Legal and the Biblical Healing models of the gospel.

 Study pages added since the last newsletter:

https://characterofgod.org/exodus-31-14-surely-die/ – “surely be put to death” is from the Hebrew translated “thou shalt surely die” in Gen 3:17. No one put Adam and Eve to death.

https://characterofgod.org/that-soul-shall-be-cut-off/ – to be “cut off from among his people can mean to be cut off from the covenant relationship they had with God.

https://characterofgod.org/ezekiel-18-20-meaning/ – this verse, in context, shows that the sentence “the soul that sinneth shall surely die” is not irrevocable.

https://characterofgod.org/exodus-21-17-surely-be-put-to-death/ – can the Bible really mean that a child who curses father or mother “shall surely be put to death”?

https://characterofgod.org/covenant-definition/ – this study proposes the possibility that the house God promises to build may include us as a dwelling place for God.

https://characterofgod.org/dispensation-meaning-bible/ – gospel dispensations are not time before and after the cross (as in Old Testament and New Testament) but before and after each person’s encounter with the message of the cross.

https://characterofgod.org/hebrews-10-28-notes/ – notes from the portion of a Zoom study session that did not get recorded. Will be replaced when the full study is edited.

https://characterofgod.org/matthew-27-46-meaning/ – puts a different twist on the meaning of Jesus’ words “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

https://characterofgod.org/lion-tribe-judah/ – the Bible says that particular lion was a lion cub, more like a lamb in character.

https://characterofgod.org/psychological-projection-bible/ – This has boon done many times in the past and we still do it.

https://characterofgod.org/what-second-coming/ – what will the Second Coming be like? A big surprise in this study.

Some of the pages above are word definitions which adds more terms to the glossary. Here are the terms in the glossary at present with links to entries:

accuser, advocate (with intercession), anger (with wrath), appease, arbitrary*, arrows, atonement, awe (with fear), Biblical Healing Model*, blood, blot, books/records, born again, breach, chastening of the Lord, command, condemnation, consequence-natural*, conscience, consumed, covenant, cross, curse, cut off, destroy/destruction, destroyer, discomfited, dispensation, dominion, eternal/everlasting/forever, fear, fire, forgiveness, forsake, free will*, glory, gospel, guilt (with shame), hardened, hell, hiding the face, holy, hornets, intercession, intercessor, jealous God, judgment, just (a just man), just (God is just),  justice, justification, justified (with justification), kill, kingdom of God, law, law-design*, law-imposed*, legalism*, lightning (with arrows), lion, longsuffering, love, mark, mediator (with intercession), mercy, murder (with kill), name, of the Lord, overthrow, penal substitution,* perfection, price (with ransom), pricks (with discomfited), probation,* propitiation, punishment, ransom, recompense, reconciliation, redeemed (with ransom), remission, repentance, righteousness, sacrifice, sanctification, sanctuary, sealed, second death, sent (“the Lord sent”), shame, sin, sin (made to be), sinful flesh (with sin, made to be), sinner, smote, sovereign*, strange act, surely die, sword, torment, Traditional Legal Model*, vengeance, visit, works, wrath

*Supplementary terms, (not actually in the Bible, KJV)
Terms included with another indicated by: “(with …)”

Terms that may yet be added (and probably more) as studies and editing are done:

believe/faith/trust, brimstone, consume away, converted, covenants, destroying angel, grace, idolatry, imparted/imputed, omniscience*, rod of iron, salvation, scapegoat, stoning, tithing, worship

New (January 2023, second edition) of the glossary in PDF format

Download at: https://characterofgod.org/resources#glossary

Now with 100 terms and 391 pages, this is a valuable resource to help with the understanding of terms important for a correct understanding of the character of God and even the gospel itself. More terms to be added yet for a future edition.

Other new pages:

 https://characterofgod.org/challenge-for-skeptic/ – I was challenged with this: “How on Earth do you read the Bible and come away with the conclusion that God doesn’t destroy? Ever heard of Sodom and Gomorrah?” I responded in kind.

https://characterofgod.org/about-our-activities/ – shows some of the work of this ministry in book translation/distribution and in support of missionary activities in Africa – with pictures.

New Contributors

There are now 40 profiles at https://characterofgod.org/contributors/. These are for people who have made significant contributions to spreading the truth about the true character of God. Here are the newest additions:

Bobby Kalua (Washington State, U.S.A.)
https://characterofgod.org/bobby-kalua/

Wycliffe Nyasani (Kenya)
https://characterofgod.org/wycliffe-nyasani/

 Dwight and Cindy Robinson (Idaho, U.S.A.)
https://characterofgod.org/dwight-cindy-robinson/

Videos

We are working to post more videos on YouTube. The YouTube channel connected to this website is: https://youtube.com/@characterofGodvideos

Here are some of the videos posted. These are not edited but are just recordings of our weekly group studies via Zoom. Many of our studies discuss Biblical terms which is part of the process of preparing to add them to the glossary.

Book Distribution

The translation of the booklet Biblical Forgiveness into Ekegusii, a Kenyan language is complete and work is progressing on the booklet The Lake of Fire and the Second Death. We have been able to have books printed in Kenya and Ghana and have contacts in those countries distributing books.

 Kenya

The book Okwaberwa ase Ebibiria or Biblical Forgiveness and other literature

Our Kenyan associate Evans handing out booklets

An interested reader

People showing the books they gratefully received – not much literature available in their language

One of over 100 baptisms

Ghana

People with books in Twi. Danny, our associate, on the right

Appreciative of the message of God’s free forgiveness

 

Previous Newsletters

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