Religion’s priority in the realm of conscience The term “conscience” has for ages belonged to the realm of religion. For almost two thousand years it has had a definition and connotation identifying it with a close relationship to a Divine Being, to God (Rom. 2:15), to Christ (Heb. 9:14), to the Holy Spirit (Rom. 9:1), and […]

We take a preliminary look at ethics Strange as it may seem, the original Greek word “ethos,” from which our word ethics is derived, is related to the barnyard. The word “ethos” can be traced back to the meaning of “stable” or the “stall” of barnyard animals, so that “ethics in the human area” does for us “what the stall […]

LISTENING TO GOD ON CALVARY, by George Gritter. Baker Book House, 1965. 143 pages. Price $2.50. The subtitle of this book is “Messages on the Seven Words from the Cross.” Many books have been written on these words and, I suppose, nearly every minister has preached and every saint meditated on them. One might be […]

PART TWO IV A Brief Historical Review of Glossolalia The pagan graeco-roman world had its priests and priestesses and its oracles, relaying their messages from the gods to men “while their consciousness was in complete abeyance,” the messages often characterized by “obscurity and unintelligibility” requiring interpretation. (19). A condition was produced “in which the normal state was […]

SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN GLOSSOLALIA… Introduction: An Affirmation of Faith Three amazing, unique, authentic miraculous phenomena occur conspicuously in the Gospels, the Acts and the Pauline letters: glossolalia or speaking with tongues (1)(2), demon possession with exorcism (3), and the gift of miraculous healing. All were classed as miraculous gifts or special favors, spiritual […]