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It contains both sophistication or bite while working a quiet but profound revolution in the field of study that it addresses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e New Testament scholars as well as those concerned in any way with the future of Christianity ought to sit up and take note. 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At last, they are uncovered here by a confluence of conventional Bible study and the epochal spiritual discoveries of Rudolf Steiner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With particular emphasis on the organic provisions of the Old Testament, Smith shows both what the assumptions of the Master's hearers were and how the New Testament confirms the ancient heritage. Arising from the fullness of the canon is an exciting story of the long journey of humanity and every human soul, each a \"beloved sheep\" whom the Creator is unwilling to lose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining a lifetime of biblical study and teaching, fifteen years investigating and contemplating Rudolf Steiner's vast works, and almost three decades of applying the analytical skill required in an intense law practice, Smith has produced a potential classic the serious Bible student can ill afford to ignore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A partial list of the contents: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e The journey concept \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Karma as the law Christ came to fulfill \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Various Old Testament considerations, including: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Three bodies \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Three who could not die \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Justness, Justice, and Judgment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Melchizedek \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e And more ... \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New Testament confirmation, including: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The need to be born again \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rebirth and resurrection distinguished \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Predestination and election \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The erroneous concept of \"Eternity\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Salvation as a gift of \"Grace\" through faith alone \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e And much more ... \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Charts, tabulations, and a bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49632440549649,"sku":"GOR013738159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50520877105425,"sku":"CIN0880105356G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53256396472593,"sku":"CIN0880105356A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880105356.jpg?v=1750818928"},{"product_id":"incredible-births-of-jesus-book-edward-reaugh-smith-9780880104487","title":"The Incredible Births of Jesus","description":"No story is so well known, nor perhaps any so little understood, as the birth of Jesus. Its mystery steals into every heart as days shorten into winter. And commercialism's thickening veneer has neither quieted the cry of every soul nor stilled its urge to penetrate through it all to an understanding of this most magnificent event in all creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A lifetime of studying and teaching the bible in a restless search for its deeper meaning eventually lead Edward R. Smith to a reference to Rudolf Steiner. With characteristic intensity and skilled research techniques developed during successful careers as a tax lawyer and business person, Smith works to bring the insights he discovered in anthroposophy, or spiritual science, to the heart of mainstream Christianity. He began this immense task in \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Bush\u003c\/i\u003e, which is volume one of his anthroposophical commentary on the bible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This small volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Incredible Births of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, derives from the larger work and focuses on the Nativity. Distilling all his research into a brief narrative to convey the significance of this amazing event is a challenge that Smith rises to with conviction. Completely aware of its immense importance for humanity and conscious of the inner conflicts that Rudolf Steiner's insights may cause a modern Christian, the author shares his path to understanding. 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No Bible commentary has yet reflected the remarkable spiritual insights of Anthroposophy. In \u003ci\u003eThe Buring Bush, \u003c\/i\u003e Edward Reaugh Smith combines his own extensive traditional biblical knowledge with his years of concentrated study and reflection on hundreds of assembled works by Steiner. The result is the first Bible commentary in the light of anthroposophic insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is based on the anthroposophic understanding given to humanity by Rudolf Steiner during the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century. The dramatic newness of anthroposophic thought means that the usual method of Bible commentary is not appropriate here. Much of \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Bush\u003c\/i\u003e is devoted to laying an anthroposophic, or spiritual-scientific, groundwork. 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