Description
Author: Robert Roberts, paper back, 454 pages. This is a reset of the 1951 edition using a more modern typeface and layout. Published by The Christadelphian (CMPA) in 2021.
Originally published as Twelve Lectures in 1862. First published under its present title and with seventeen lectures in 1884.
"Popular Christianity (both in faith and practise), shewn to be unscriptual; and the true nature of the ancient apostolic faith exhibited."
The topics covered by the seventeen lectures are:
- The Bible - What it is, and how to Interpret it
- Human Nature Mortal
- The dead unconscious until the resurrection - heaven and hell
- Immortality a conditional gift to be bestowed at the resurrection
- Judgement - awards to the responsible when Christ returns
- God, Angels, Jesus Christ, and the crucifixion
- The Devil not a personal supernatural being.
- The Kingdom of God to be established on the earth
- The promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob yet to be fulfilled.
- The Kingdom of God the final act in the great scheme of human redemption
- Christ the future king of the world
- The covenant made with David to be fulfilled when israel is re-established under Christ
- The second coming of Christ the only Christian Hope
- The hope of Israel of the restoration of the Jews
- Coming Troubles and the Second Advent
- What must I do to be saved
- The ways of Christendom inconsistent with the commanments of Christ