the God I worship is I Am, it seems to follow that only through what I am can I worship Him right. God and the archangel Michael were in one of the anterooms of heaven. In a continuous torrents all the prayers, oral and sung, of mankind were ascending from earth. It was a baby of sound in all tongues, and on all sides of every question, hurricanes of passionate demands, winds of speech whining with wheedling words, gusts of insistent requests for special favors. Overwhelmed with it all, Michael said to God, “If you will allow me, Sire, I would say that you made a great take when you let man learn to talk. If he was not able to talk, it would be possible then for you to know what he was really praying for”. And God said, “I do not listen to their words. I listen only to their lives”. God closed the window and opened the door, and all the tempest of words stopped. Instead from the earth came up clearly another prayer. Most of it was distressing, but a weak, wavering voice did arise also from the lives of men and women to heaven. Notice the prayer them pray, “O Lord, if it does not cost us too much, we sometimes would like to be just and courageous and kind. Amen”. For the only prayer of mine that rises above the roof is the prayer of what I Am. In this affirmation also is the pledge and proof of our existential unity with God and with one another, as the author puts it. It is strange that, though we all say our “I am”, we nevertheless fancy ourselves to be so far, so essentially, separated from on another. Is not the same spirit in all of us which from our thousand mouths says his “I am”, thus proving himself and us true? (5) God as Creator, the Bible of Genesis gives the impression that, aside from God himself, everything that exists has been created. God alone is self-existent. nothing else exists of own right, independently, or without beginning. This initial impression is corroborated by many later passages read Neb. 9:6. (6) Trinity is the union of three divine Persons in the Godhead. The term means that the divine life is characterized by interior personal relationships; whose sources are described as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is true that Christianity speaks of the Father as the First Person, and of the Son as the Second Person, and of the Holy Spirit as the Third Person; but (first, second, and third, here do not represent a time order, rather the 5 Reverend Lawrence L. Blankenship
order of necessary relationships. It is of the nature of the Son to depend on the Father and it is the nature of the Holy Spirit to depend on the Father and Son. (7) Redemption, the act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed. The root meaning of the word (redeem), is “TO SET FREE”, or “TO CAUSE TO BE SET FREE”. Sometimes an offering or a gift is required as a condition to the release. The Bible there deals with redemption in two different ways: sometimes it means what men or women do for themselves or for each other to effects deliverance from danger, and in particular to regain the lost favor of God; and sometimes it means a deliverance that comes to men and women because of the gracious activity of God on their behalf. The grace of God is not absent from the transactional concept; but it