author - "Ellen G. White"
Luther was one day devoutly climbing these steps, when suddenly a voice like thunder seemed to say to him: "The just shall live by faith." He sprang to his feet and hastened from the place in shame and horror. That text never lost its power upon his soul. From that time, he saw more clearly than ever before the fallacy of trusting to human works for salvation. His eyes had been opened, and were never again to be closed. Said Luther, a few years after the opening of the Reformation:
Nothing causes a prince to be so much esteemed as great enterprises and giving proof of prowess ... He may almost be termed a new prince, because from a weak king he has become for fame and glory the first king in Christendom, and if you regard his actions you will find them all very great and some of them extraordinary. At the very beginning of his reign he assailed a city, and that enterprise was the foundation of his state. At first he did it at his leisure and without fear of being
"Let us reject this decree," said the princes. "In matters of conscience the majority has no power." To protect liberty of conscience is the duty of the state, and this is the limit of its authority in matters of religion. Every secular government that attempts to regulate or enforce religious observances by civil authority is sacrificing the very principle for which many people so nobly struggled. The principles contained in this celebrated Protest … constitute the very
The European Union Foretold provides insightful perspectives on the European Union both as a political project in integration and the transformation of an ancient order. One notices that centralised powers, which ended up in the formation of united kingdoms, united states and united nations. These imperial forces persevere in efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, colonisation, economic and military supremacy and the global dominance of the E.U. have all been
Luther was one day devoutly climbing these steps, when suddenly a voice like thunder seemed to say to him: "The just shall live by faith." He sprang to his feet and hastened from the place in shame and horror. That text never lost its power upon his soul. From that time, he saw more clearly than ever before the fallacy of trusting to human works for salvation. His eyes had been opened, and were never again to be closed. Said Luther, a few years after the opening of the Reformation:
Nothing causes a prince to be so much esteemed as great enterprises and giving proof of prowess ... He may almost be termed a new prince, because from a weak king he has become for fame and glory the first king in Christendom, and if you regard his actions you will find them all very great and some of them extraordinary. At the very beginning of his reign he assailed a city, and that enterprise was the foundation of his state. At first he did it at his leisure and without fear of being
"Let us reject this decree," said the princes. "In matters of conscience the majority has no power." To protect liberty of conscience is the duty of the state, and this is the limit of its authority in matters of religion. Every secular government that attempts to regulate or enforce religious observances by civil authority is sacrificing the very principle for which many people so nobly struggled. The principles contained in this celebrated Protest … constitute the very
The European Union Foretold provides insightful perspectives on the European Union both as a political project in integration and the transformation of an ancient order. One notices that centralised powers, which ended up in the formation of united kingdoms, united states and united nations. These imperial forces persevere in efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, colonisation, economic and military supremacy and the global dominance of the E.U. have all been