Bangladesh – The Hopes of a Digital Revolution

A Bangladesh-based businessman told me recently – during a casual conversation in a Spanish airport – that the ‘good news mentality’ that currently surrounds Bangladesh’s commercial activity was promoted by individuals with their ‘heads in the clouds’. The country fought tooth and nail through tough times and its consumer industry has been rewarded with reputable growth. The nation’s garment industry astounded many economic forecasters with its wonderful performance and today the sector is positively booming. Low production and conversation costs have been the key encouragement for savvy investors and their capital has kept Bangladesh afloat in tempestuous waters. The nation enjoys the third largest clothing export economy on the globe and this has, up until now, been the lifeboat for the Bengali people. So why does this not merit a ‘good news mentality’? How can the propagation of such factual summary invite accusations of dreamy out-of-touch analysis? Despite my initial bewilderment, I have come to realise that something less rosy lurks beneath the surface here.

A stable future in this part of the world is only cemented through the application of foreign direct investment. Natural, varied investments – innovative projects which fall in line with the evolving digital world we live in – are the lifeblood of any Asian nation which hopes to prosper and match the techno-glory of powerhouses such as Tokyo and Seoul. This is where Bangladesh falls short.

There is a real, palpable need for some fresh direction in this part of the world. The innovative start-ups, lingering in the West, should really take note and realise that there is a serious opportunity here. There is an opportunity to trailblaze and make genuine inroads, foraging success out of stagnant markets – capitalising on the promising 5% (and above) economical growth rates and taking the bull by the horns to build new industry in this modernity-free place. Any decent digital business – one willing to properly utilise an Interpreting Agency and conduct thorough market research – can be the saviour here. Bangladesh needs good thinkers – people who can expand the digital markets and show the world that this is a nation not destined to waddle on through garment doused mediocrity. This country can be so much more and your business – your innovative, creative, Western business – can be at the heart of the revolution. Bangladesh, after all, managed to exit the global recession practically unharmed – anachievement made all the more extraordinary when one considers the condition of some of its neighbours.

Were the Ten Commandments Abolished?

In Colossians 2:16 it reads “Let no man therefore judge you in meat (offering), or in drink (offering), or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:”. Many people who have read this verse out of context have concluded that this means that the fourth Commandment, which says “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy….”. was abolished at the cross.

Is this really what the Bib

le is teaching? What do the preceding verses say? Can they shed any light on the validity of this conclusion?

Colossians 2:14 states, “blotting out the handwriting (the only laws written by hand were the ceremonial laws, written by Moses -) of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.”

The ceremonial and sacrificial law was a rigorous system of rites and ceremonies and feasts that were put in place as a shadow of things to come. They pointed to the coming of the Messiah. Whenever an animal was sacrificed and it’s blood was shed, it served as a reminder to the onlookers that someday a Saviour would come and die for their sins. The ceremonial law was symbolically placed in the side of the Ark of the Covenant, to show that it was temporary, and ‘against’ the people. The Ten Commandment law on the other hand, was written in stone by the finger of God, and placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, symbolising its eternal nature.

Luke further clarifies that there is a distinction between the Ten Commandment and Ceremonial laws. Luke 1:6 “And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.”

James described the Ten Commandment law as a “law of liberty”.

Jesus showed that they were a law of love. John 15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love”.

As well as being about love, the first four showing us how to love God, and the last six how to love our fellow man, the Ten Commandments also depict aspects of the character of God. In many places the same words are used to describe the nature of God and the nature of the law. For example:

Romans 16:26: God is Eternal Psalm 111:7-8: The law is Eternal

John 4:24: God is Spiritual Romans 7:14: The law is Spiritual

Psalm 145:17: God is Righteous Psalm 119:172: The law is Righteous

Matthew 5:48: God is Perfect Psalm 19:7: The law is Perfect

Luke 18:19: God is Good Romans 7:12: The law is Good

Deuteronomy 32:4: God is Just Romans 7:12: The law is Just

1 John 3:3: God is Pure Psalms 19:8: The law is Pure

I John 4:8: God is Love Romans 13:10: The law is Love

I John 1:5: God is Light Proverbs 6:23: The law is Light

Psalms 48:1: God is Great Hosea 8:12: The law is Great

Deuteronomy 32:4: God is Truth Psalm 119:142: The law is Truth

Isaiah 5:16: God is Holy Romans 7:12: The law is Holy

It seems obvious from the very nature of both the Ten Commandment law and the ordinances, that it was only the Ordinances that were made obsolete at the cross, through the death and resurrection of our Lord.

The Ten Commandments remain as an eternal law of love. Jesus Himself said about the commandment law. Mat 5:18 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled”.

All Bible references are from the King James Version.

Wealthy Affiliate Login – Is it Worth Having Access to It?

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Unipay2u – Golden Gateway To Safest And Best Returns

The company makes use of the international market and the enormous opportunities it offers for safe and best returns. In the process the clients get tax savings and asset protection in a legal manner without their identity being revealed.

Globalization has eased regulation and state interventions making the scenario immensely competitive in the financial markets. It is not easy to earn profits every time one invests. Gold is one of the safest investment options at present. It is the true savor of a country image worldwide and acts as a guard against currency devaluations. UniPay2U realises the supreme position that Gold has in the monetary system and has developed a valuable plan that can work wonders.

UniPay2U India provides a platform to investors where they can buy, own, sell and trade gold. The Gold in a standard bar form is of permanently guaranteed quality (> 99.5%). Members can access UniPay2U's order board for their transactions. The prices are competitive and no extra or hidden cost is extracted for insurance, fabrication and delivery of the gold purchased. The gold becomes the property of the investor the moment it is bought. The security of the property is also guaranteed as it is stored in one of the safest and recognized bullion vaults located in London, New York or Switzerland.

Trading UniPay2U Gold is also very easy. These bars retain their full resale value which is generally not the case with privately owned Gold. UniPay2U operates a multi-currency system and investors can maintain balances in US Dollars, Euros and Pounds Sterling. One can trade gold using currency most profitable at the time. Thus the chances of maximising returns increase and the investors are not exposed to any risk. In a few simple steps the ownership of the bar changes without even worrying about the quality. The payment of the transaction too is immediately credited to the bank accounts of the users, thus making the whole process tension free.

Debt and Insurance Are the Work of 666

Most would not consider commerce as evil but the fact that Constantine, who is 666 in Revelation 13: 12-18, is behind modern commercial strategies puts everything to do with it firmly in his court. Money is a drug and those who have it want more and are obviously never satisfied. The world runs on money and as it is man's invention and the way to power it is inescapable. But what kind of power is it and how do those who want to escape the treadmill get off it?

Greed is today's goal as many who already have millions are continuing to destroy the earth and the environment to gain more. There is glory in success and we are not particularly keen on those who are struggling to make ends meet. That is why poverty is impossible to eradicate. It is the way religions govern and governments succeed.

When he established the Catholic Church in 325 AD and invented Jesus Christ as its Savior he was helped by the Spirit of the Universe. Its success as a business is such that it is probably the richest organization on earth and its land holdings alone are worth trillions. It gathers in payment from parishioners and those who die and leave their wealth to the Church.

It feeds poverty and even those with the least to give are encouraged to 'tithe', that is give ten percent of their income to the church. While their children might be educated in the local Catholic school the parents are charged fees. The more schools, institutions, and universities the Church has the greater the income. For this reason Constantine established a system of commerce that ensured the growth of religions and their support.

Insurance is a form of investment whereby those who have much to lose pay companies to reward them if and when disaster strikes and assets are lost. This is a trick as physical things have no value in the overall concept of spirituality. Those caught up in these things have no connection to the Spirit, who is the great protector. Trusting in God to provide, however, is beyond what many could or would contemplate.

When commissioned by God to 'tear down the wall of churches and bring back the young' it followed at an age shown to me between lives. My reincarnation demonstrates that heaven and hell are myths and yet they are tricks to get people into religious organizations and keep them. Their 'insurance' for the dedication and acceptance of the fake gods is 'heaven' or 'paradise' where it is claimed one lives out eternity in absolute comfort and with all they ever dreamed about in life.

To work hard and to attend to their gods is the message most hear from early childhood while beneficiaries are usually those in religious organizations or others who are so attached. At the end of life when one reviews what it was about they are not thinking about God but about their place in heaven. They are claiming the insurance that has no way of paying out.

A Perfect Match of Ideal Artist & Lyricist – Dr Hari Om Ias

Dr. Hari Om is energetic, logical and multanimus. When he came to the capital city Lucknow as one of the election observers appointed by the Election Commission to monitor the Assembly elections, he had never thought that he would get a stage to showcase his talent as an Artist in Lucknow. He was excited about his ghazal recital. Music has been a passion ever since he could remember and used to write film songs on many stages. He picked up interest in ghazals while doing his doctorate in Hindi literature. As part of his studies he started reading hindi poems and shaayari (short poems). The lyrics he had written is heart touching and full of emotions.

Eventually he started listening to ghazal greats such as Mehndi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Hussain Brothers (Ahmed Hussain-Mohammed Hussain) and Jagjit Singh. He often sings ghazals he had written (composed) and become a famous Lyricist. His harmonious voice has bewitched all its listeners. He is widely known for being a famous singer in India. He is gifted with an amazing voice and an exquisite line of thought. His skills have explored wider horizons. Apart from singing he is famous Lyricist in Lucknow. According to Hari Om music is a stress-buster. Poetry and music have been saviours in many unpleasant situations. He doesn’t know when these saviours became his passion. He had also sung two songs for Moxx Music Company – ‘Yaara Ve’ and ‘Socha Na Tha Zindagi’.

He has been honoured with many awards such as Rajbhasha Award, the Tulsi Shri Award, Firaq Award, International Poetry Award, the Awadh Gaurav Samman and the Uttar Pradesh Award. He is not only an Officer but is also famous as a prominent writer who had written many books with his pragmatic and gripping tales of common man struggling vicissitudes of life. He is a huge fan of Mehdi Hassan, K. J. Yesudas and Ilaiyaraaja. He loves the songs of Sadma… ‘Ae zindagi gale laga le’ and ‘Surmayi akhiyon me’. He released his new song Socha Na Tha Zindgi online and his music albums include Intisaab and Roshani Ke Pankh etc. Some of his Ghazals are Mai tere pyar ka maara hua hu, Sikandar hu magar haara hua hu etc.

Basically he was Born in Katari village of Sultanpur district (Amethi) of Uttar Pradesh, he was a good student from his childhood and was also gifted with an amazing voice. His interest in Hindi literature made him a PhD in Hindi literature which helped him composing his own songs. After joining as IAS, he also completed a course from prestigious International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. He has been district magistrate of 11 districts, including Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Allahabad, Saharanpur etc. Dr.Hari Om is recognized not only for his exemplary administrative competence with so many important profiles attached to his name but also for his flair of other capabilities. Ultimately he is a master of many fields such as singing, writing and a perfect administrative officer.

Christian Healing and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Healing is like winter’s snowdrops on a buttercup;the will to withstand suffering and sorrow in order to discover our light and to let our light shine forth.”

There are many ways that we humans seek healing. We seek to heal ourselves physically, as we wish to heal ourselves of illness, injury and disease. We seek also to heal ourselves mentally, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. Healing can come to us though many avenues.

Healer

The healer can heal the person by administering God’s grace, through the Holy Spirit, by praying over them, by allowing God’s power to emanate through them, to reach out to gently touch that person’s heart and heal their spirit, body and mind. Healing begins with the person’s soul and this healing then emanates through the physical body.

Healing through teachings of the Catholic Church

The Eucharist

We receive Jesus and he becomes a part of us.It is a profound source of healing; as it helps us to cope with the struggles in our lives and helps us to remember the pain and suffering of Jesus.

Holy Sacraments

There are seven sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church-These are Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction or the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. Each of these give sanctifying grace and sacramental grace.

Sacred Scriptures

God speaks personally to us in the Sacred Scriptures through the Holy Bible.The bible is a source of deep wisdom, teaching and reflection and is very healing.

Mary Mother of God

Mary acts as an intermediary between us and God and if we ask for help, she will come to our aid. Reciting the rosary is also very healing and gives us many graces. Mary is also a great healer and will never let us down.

Jesus our Lord and Saviour

Jesus’ spirit is among those who are lonely, sad, weak and suffering. You are never alone with Jesus by your side. Jesus’ compassion embraces the world.He walked among us and understands humanity and how fragile we really can be. He works miracles and is here for us.

“Do not let your hearts be troubled, trust in God and trust in Me.” John 14:1

Christian Saints

Christian saints are recognized by the Catholic Church as having performed miracles during their lives and they bestow graces, healing and miracles on mankind.

Angels

Angels are beautiful beings of light and joy that assist us in our journey through life. They are always there for us but we have to reach out and ask them for their help.

Power of Prayer

When we pray, we are putting forward in a very prayerful way, our wishes and hopes before God.Some people when they pray, speak their words of truth to God, others may recite formal prayers. Both are equally powerful. What matters is that the prayer comes from your heart. Here is one of the prayers I wrote.

“Lord, this is who I am,

This is how You created me to be,

I kneel before You just as I am,

I know that You love and accept me unconditionally,

Envelop me in Your love, For You are love,

And I wish to be a part of that love,

I am sorry for any time that I have hurt You

Or for any time that I have

Broken away from that love.

Heal me in Your love,

Through You, In You, For You,

With Your love, I am set free.”

Healing through the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. His mission is salvation and he brings people together in peace and delivers comfort and wisdom to mankind.

Forgiving ourselves and our past family tree

Forgiving ourselves first for any hurt done and forgiving those who have gone before us is vital if we are to heal all mankind. When we show forgiveness towards others, people will forgive us too.

Alternative Healing Methods

Some alternative forms of healing are Acupuncture, Bio-energy healing, Reiki healing, Kineiseology, Reflexology, Shiatsu and many more. Many healing therapies try to heal the root cause of their ailment rather than mask over the problem. Many wonderful benefits are received.

Counseling

Counseling is a way of relieving our burdens, trying to heal and find solutions to complex problems. The counselor can guide us through the healing process leading to peace, forgiveness and love.

Finally I leave you with some scripture to ponder on the greatness of God and on the miracle of healing through God.

“I am God’s workmanship, created for good works” Ephesians 2:10

“I may approach God with freedom and confidence” Ephesians 3:12

“I cannot be separated from the love of God” Romans 8:35-39

“I can find grace and mercy to help in time of need” Hebrews 4:16

“I am complete in Christ” Colossians 2:10

Sex, Science and Survival

The idea that reality evolves through an infinite dance of fundamental atomic geometrical shapes with an ethical purpose, became the basis of science in 3rd Century BC Greece. Plato’s Academy called it the Science for ethical ends. The Epicurean University called it the Science of universal love. The movement of the moon, echoing the atomic dance of life was seen to influence the female cycle. The ethical purpose, in this case, was held to explain a mothers love and compassion for children, giving sex a potential infinite ethical value.

Greek philosophers argued that religious beliefs were not part of the atomic purpose and others maintained that traditional cultural virtues contributed to the evolution of humanity. A crucial debate at that time, was that healthy human development required a scientific understanding of infinity. This understanding was associated with a sexually orientated joy of life associated with the eternal atomic dance creating a desire to love and protect children.

Greek science was invented to save civilization from the extinction process, recorded within the fossil record. In particular, the term ‘saviour’ applied to teachers of the Epicurean school. The Roman Government considered this idea as a threat to the stability of their Empire. However, it succumbed to Christian ideology during the 5th Century AD. By that time science was an instrument controlled by religious dogma for the purpose of military conquest rather that reasoning about the infinite ethical purpose of the geometrical atomic dance of life.

The mathematical understanding of the dance of life under religious control during the Dark Ages was about ensuring that a particular creed developed science to protect itself from military conquest. Sexual selection centred upon the physical attributes of the warrior class, echoing the primitive survival mindset of previous life on earth, most of which had become extinct. Infinite mathematical conjecture became completely banished within all scientific reasoning as a treasonable heresy. Giordano Bruno in 1600 was burnt alive by the Christian church in Rome for teaching about it at Oxford University.

The resulting supreme law of science became one of carcinogenic growth and development toward certain extinction and therefore cannot be considered as ethical. Einstein’s genius, who initially agreed with that unethical proposition, provided the solution to this problem. His “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that we used when we created them” meant that science needed to alter its governing logic.

If humanity is to prosper it must confront modern science’s obsession about the certain extinction of humanity. That will involve a re-understanding of our sexual mindset. The infinite geometrical logic involved in the dance of life generates a powder keg of emotional thoughts and feelings beyond present scientific comprehension. With all the best intentions, religious concepts of infinity are of little pragmatic help. This is demonstrated by the current exposure of organized child molestation within the Christian Church and the degrading use of sex associated with acts of religious Islamic terrorism. The complexity and dynamics of sexual reality requires a much more profound and compassionate understanding.

Science is an incredible wonderment. However, its use of information and communication devices brought about a global 3D dysfunctional epidemic of false financial expectations that is unethical. The mass manufacture of such devices is transmitting dysfunctional information. It uses artistic know-how to generate false social anticipation by using a geometrical mathematics similar to the creation of addictions associated with poker machine functioning.

Science must relinquish its obsessive intolerance toward research into linking human evolutionary survival with infinite fractal logic. Under the present carcinogenic situation, all information and communication logic only obeys the laws of universal chaos. The restructuring of this obsolete law will allow relevant crucial scientific investigation to proceed. In quantum biological neurological cancer research, living information is known to flow in the opposite direction to the energies of extinction chaos. It is important to research the reasoning that living emotional information, by entangling with chaos energy, generates evolutionary universal consciousness.

The procedure that science could use to solve this problem is simple. It cannot wait for political leaders to draft out religious persuasive ideas concerning ethical immortality. That would be counterproductive, as it cannot be discussed scientifically. Religion and science are still locked into an emotional power struggle that the 17th Century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, described as one leading to continual cycles of destructive conflict throughout the history of evolving civilizations. However, in the name of cancer research, relevant controversial geometrical scientific concepts can be programmed into a computer in order to obtain a human survival blueprint. At present this is impossible because modern science is innately carcinogenic and cannot generate such non-carcinogenic futuristic simulations.

Sigmund Freud described this scientific obsession with our extinction in his ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’. He described science as using inorganic chemistry to force organic life science back into an inanimate state. As the father of psycho-analysis he dedicated his life to freeing the human mindset from this emotional death-cult dictatorship. As an influential Freemason his attempt echoed the centuries old battle between the Christian Church and Freemasonry’s naive and failed attempt to free humanity from what it called the principle of destruction upholding science. The 1948 Freemasonry book ‘Freemasonry its Hidden Meaning’ clearly stated that its purpose was to free humanity from the yoke imposed by the Principle of Destruction. However, Freud’s condemnation of our death cult to extinction can now be used to help quickly design as a precise human survival blueprint.

The simple idea of putting the complex geometrical dance of life issue into a computer program to obtain a blueprint for seashell evolution succeeded during the 20th Century. IEEE, the world’s largest technological research institute, reprinted the discovery of the life-force in 1990. However, the application of 3rd Century science’s ethical logic concerning the cancer-free geometrical evolution of seashell growth and development through space-time is now in violation of prevailing human death cult logic. The seashell survival blueprint was acceptable but the human one remains an emotional religious and scientific heresy.

Any major religion perceiving that the religion of another culture uses a dysfunctional carcinogenic methodology to ensure its own survival will attempt to rectify that situation. Traditional beliefs and customs, based upon sound and colour excitement, fused with dysfunctional geometrical logic, similar to poker machine mathematical science, can only bring about dysfunctional desires to accelerate extreme cultural chaos in an attempt at such rectification.

However, as soon as the human survival blueprint simulations come into existence, then their first principle geometrical knowledge concerning the nature of carcinogenic growth and development can be used also for the benefit of the entire global population. The resulting wealth generated would be greater that the cost of destroying various national infrastructures. The ethical magnification of science will then become part of universal consciousness becoming aware of itself to shed its past carcinogenic disposition. As ancient Greek ethical logic argued, science can guide ennobling government for the health of the universe by becoming part of its healthy growth and development, thus avoiding extinction. That project is now in the hands of scientists and artists internationally promoting that idea as an integral part of the 21st Century Renaissance, which means literally, the rebirth of ancient Greek ethical science.

Gambling and the World of 666

Money is the product of greed and it is in everyone's sight that has not the knowledge that God provides for us. The world runs on money and without it one is destitute and unable to survive in what has become the world of 666. Most, however, have not the knowledge or know how to make it in quantities they expect they would need to provide them a good life. That is why they enjoy taking short-cuts with their dreams as motivators to gamble.

Those who engage in it are easy prey for some to extract their money and make big profits. The addiction to gambling is an acquired taste and once hooked it becomes a life-style the victims cannot escape. It's a drug that changes the brain to require more and the main thing behind it is an evil force that will eventually rob those so afflicted of everything they own.

Over and again the stories of those who have gone down this path are highlighted in the drunks who occupy the streets and often sleep under bridges or on park benches. Spending time recently speaking with some homeless men in my city of Canberra, Australia, the nation's Capital, there is a common thread running between them.

Mostly they come from homes that have rejected them and from broken marriages. They all have bad attitudes towards society which can be blamed on their circumstances. They have reached a point in their lives where they are no longer trust anyone and they are vulnerable to forces beyond their control. They live with evil and they are the victims of the same.

The governments tolerate gambling and many encourage it. Likewise they allow the alcohol because these things go together and revenue is obtained that makes the rest of society work. This is a tragedy and one most are powerless to stop.

Constantine, emperor of Rome, established the Catholic Church in 325 AD and he put up the image of Jesus Christ as its Savior. He also introduced the Trinity God, which became its focus along with the Mother God of Babylon, Mary, the sun-star. He was Islamic and the Amorite of the bible (Amos 2: 9) and the one identified as 666 (Revelation 13: 12-18).

The world over which his methods still rule is corrupt, evil, full of drugs, and it creates victims who are prone to gambling and such. They are targeted by the rich and easily fall victim to anything that might make them money. They are destined to lose out and their future is set if they go down this path.

Dr D Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Sufficiency and Efficiency

That the Atonement has become a controversial doctrine no one will deny. That said, it is a fact that all theologians agree that the Gospel is to be proclaimed to all nations. But what does that mean? Does it mean that Christ in His death is a sufficient Saviour for the whole human race? What does that mean? Is the Gospel to be preached in the full knowledge that Christ’s finished work is, by design, sufficient to save the world, is now available to all, and is effectual to save all who believe in Christ? Or was Christ’s death sufficient only for the salvation of the elect?

Indeed, did DML-J mean by ‘sufficient for all’ what the limited Atonement advocates mean? This camp sees it as a ‘bare sufficiency,’ making it merely adequate to cover mankind’s sin, having the potential to cover the sins of all men. But something can be sufficient for a purpose without it being designed for that purpose. Norman Douty’s illustration is helpful here.

Imagine a multi-millionaire moving into his street with sufficient wealth to pay the debts of everyone living there, but decided, despite that, that his wealth would be of no help to them because he had previously decided it was only for the relief of his friends who lived elsewhere.

This is the logical fallacy of the limited Atonement understanding of ‘sufficiency.’ Of what use is a ‘sufficient for all’ Atonement if it is not designed for all? It is surely a miserly God Who would provide Atonement that is ‘sufficient for all’ but not intended for all. If the Atonement is sufficient only for those for whom it is efficient, then the use of ‘sufficient’ is entirely redundant. Such a naked sufficiency, propounded by Beza and followed by Owen, is of no use to guilty sinners because these theologians in effect ‘deprive the universal sufficiency of the atonement of all its value.’ Smeaton adds his point that Christ’s “sacrifice was of infinite value, and sufficient to cancel sin, though infinitely great.’ Again, here is naked sufficiency that in effect tells us nothing. ‘Particular redemptionists only mean that the intrinsic value of Christ’s death was sufficient, in itself, to cover all the sins of mankind.’

Irish Archbishop James Ussher (1581–1656), one of the Caroline divines, wrote: ‘He is much deceived that thinks a preaching of a bare sufficiency [in the death of Christ] is able to yield sufficient ground of comfort to a distressed soul… ‘ Ussher’s point is powerful. A provisional sufficiency for all but not intended for all is not sufficient for all after all. ‘If God designed that Christ die only for the elect, how can the infinite worth of His death, in itself, afford ground for offering salvation for all men?’ Davenant contends that ‘the mere sufficiency of the thing cannot so far avail, that Christ should be affirmed to have died sufficiently for all, without an ordained sufficiency to all from the intention and act of the offering.’ The sufficiency and efficiency of Christ’s Atonement are co-terminous for Davenant.

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