www.God-so-loved-the-world.org
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send
his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might
be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name
of the only Son of God."
(John 3:16-18 ESV)
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God of all Ages
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christadelphianbooks.org comprehensive
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thechristadelphians.org
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dailyreadings.org.uk
notes on Bible readings through the year |
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Who runs this website?
This website is run on behalf of Hong Kong
Christadelphians (please see www.shengjing.org for
Chinese booklets and courses) with assistance from Leicester Westleigh Christadelphians
(see www.theonetruth.org ). This
website aims provides a small supplement to the many bigger and better pages on
the web. The emphasis is on simple and straightforward materials that present,
as best we are able, the Gospel preached by the Lord Jesus and his disciples.
The purpose of these courses, booklets and books is only to aid study of the
Bible itself - they are no substitute for regular Bible reading.
The more recent addition of an archive of
out of print, or hard to find, witness material from the 1950s-80s is offered
as a resource to Bible teachers and students.
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Who are the Christadelphians?
There are 45,000 Christadelphians in 115
countries worldwide.
The distinctive practice and teaching of
Christadelphians, or "Brothers and sisters in Christ" which is all
the name means, can be found in the first centuries of the early church, and
again at the the time of the Reformation, and we look back to both these
periods as examples of how the church should behave and what the church should
teach.
In our modern form the Christadelphian
movement dates from the 1840s, though we only adopted a denominational
name in 1863, when the Civil War broke out in the
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Our teaching
Although groups with the teaching of the
Christadelphians have been found among Protestants since the 1570s, in our
current form the name ¡°Christadelphian¡± was taken by congregations registering
as conscientious objectors during the American Civil War, and shortly after the
name was also adopted by congregations in
Firstly, we believe that man is mortal - meaning that death really does mean
death, and that the "spirit" which returns to God (Ecclesiastes 12:7,
Psalm 104:29) is nothing more than the same breath God gave when he created
man. Please see any good Bible dictionary or concordance. The hope of the Bible
is resurrection from the sleep of death when the Lord Jesus returns
(1Corinthians 15:20-23). The Bible only comments on heaven going to say that "no
man has gone up into heaven" (John 3:13, Acts 2:34, Psalm 6:5,
88:11-12). This is a teaching recognised as Biblical teaching, and early
Christian teaching, by many modern and ancient scholars.
"The heavens are the LORD's heavens,
but the earth he has given to the children of man. The dead do not praise the
Lord, nor do any who go down to silence." (Psalm 115:16-17 ESV)
"For the living know that they will
die, but the dead know nothing" (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
"The LORD kills and brings to life;
he brings down to Sheol and raises up" (1 Samuel 2:6)
Secondly, we believe that Jesus also was
mortal, that Jesus also died, just like his ancestors Adam, Abraham, and David
died, and that for three days our Lord Jesus was dead, unconscious, in the
tomb.
Although the above belief in the mortality of the soul was widely accepted at
the time of the Reformation, and this teaching is now the mainstream teaching
in Anglican and many other Protestant churches, still today most Protestant
churches do not apply this teaching to our Lord Jesus Christ, consequently they
do not teach that Jesus was mortal in the same way as other men. In contrast
Christadelphians believe that the Bible teaches that because Jesus had never
sinned God, his Father, raised Jesus (Hebrews 5:7-8, Acts 2:24,32, 3:15,26,
4:10, 17:31) to become "first born from the dead" (Colossians
1:18, Revelation 1:5), "the firstfruits of those who sleep"
(1Corinthians 15:20), that he might later become "the first born among
many brethren" (Romans 8:9). If Jesus was "first" that
means Adam, Abraham, David are not in heaven, it also means that his death was
as much a reality as theirs. What is more, the Bible says that even after being
raised the Son still lives to "his God" (Romans 15:6, John 20:17, 2
Corinthians 11:31):
"For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives
he lives to God." (Romans 6:10 ESV)
"And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power." (1
Corinthians 6:14)
"For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God." (2
Corinthians 13:4)
The above Christadelphian teaching on
mortality ¨C both the mortality of men, and the mortality of our Lord Jesus -
may well be new to many visitors to this website, yet the Bible is full of
passages which teach the death of the Lord Jesus as both very real and central
to the Good News.
Jesus himself said "I was dead" (Revelation 1:18). Paul said "of
first importance you must believe this; that Christ died for our sins" (1Corinthians
15:2-5), and that to be saved we must "believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). Some people may think that
whether Christ really died, or simply appeared to die is an academic detail, or
a mystery but Paul says this is important. If we do not recognise the
seriousness of what Jesus did for us on the cross, and of what his Father did
for us by raising Jesus from the dead, then can we really claim to "know
Jesus" in any meaningful sense? Only when this basic fact about Christ
is admitted is it possible to start a meaningful, scriptural, relationship with
the real Jesus, and through him with his Father:
"who desires all people to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all"
(1 Timothy 2:4-6 ESV)
So Christadelphians believe as
1 Timothy 2:4-6, that is one God, and one mediator between men and God, the man
Jesus; and we try to offer a clean, uncluttered, simple Gospel message that has
the Bible as its root and the Lord Jesus at its heart. If you are
interested to hear more, then please get
in touch with us. Perhaps we can help you and you can certainly help us.
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