ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
DRAMA, DRAMATICS AND DELIGHT
by Rev. Dr. Robert Donaldson
July 2000
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
July 2000
©
ISBN 0 9578816 0 6
Introduction
VORTEX
Escaping the Torrents of Treachery
in
the Power of Truth
INTRODUCTION
VORTEX
ANSWERS to questions is dealing with questions
actually put, the first three Chapters dealing with those addressed
to this organisation, on the WEB, the fourth with a question put by Christ
Himself, addressing disciples.
As to that one, it was a rhetorical question,
but the answer is not rhetorical !
Other questions that ask themselves appear, to
meet probes which some may wish to make.
There are sometimes situations
where a person is tossed about by
desire, hope, doubt, trouble,
a collision of past impressions and
present mutability,
as if there were some meeting of
mighty ocean currents, creating a whirl-pool.
Such a force has a vortex, sometimes
vigorous,
and the trend for objects in the
vicinity
is one, downwards.
In meeting such a case, one realises that it may be helpful to others.
Hence in this case, we first meet
three major assaults on the Bible,
none justified,
but all
from the forces of the raging waters.
The first is on the trinity,
the second on morality
and the third on the miraculous.
When one is involved in the dramatics
of life,
especially in such situations as
these,
it is not always easy to categorise
what is affecting one,
for the onset of wolves may seem
a matter of teeth and slobber,
but the reality may be a plan, a
strategy , which the dogs are following.
Hence it may serve to look at
such assaults, and in the provision of this work,
it is hoped that some will see such
strategies and learn to despise them,
to be encouraged and to find with
renewed force,
or even with simple faith in Christ
and His word,
a buttress of vision of reality for
all time,
the answers all along there.
But what is it like ? It is like
London in the 1940’s,
with darkness of night amplified
by air-raid precautions, black-outs,
lights of night turned off, windows
obscured,
while darkened forces arise to secure
destruction.
Using invisible radar on invisible
forces makes them visible,
and when they are shot down, the
dramatics are less intense,
the simple realities of the enemy’s
audacity become apparent,
his vulnerability, and eventual defeat
arising to sight.
The word of God is NOT ONLY His;
it has the QUALITIES which
one would expect,
and then even more, from such a
source.
When it is pushed, it responds
with strength, like a great tennis champion:
the more it is assailed,
the more it is strong,
the more obvious its defeat,
the more apparent its victory.
When a troop arises to overthrow
it, incredible intrinsic power is apparent,
to the last jot and tittle.
It is like a Spitfire in the night,
outmanoeuvring all opposition.
It is like a missile, immune to
defence.
It seems simple, but its power is
overwhelming.
Its message has not changed since
the institution of sin,
but it has been amplified until in
the Lord Jesus Christ
it is a torrent of protection, a
massif of rock,
a light from heaven with God Himself
exhibited in flesh,
and in flesh attesting His power,
concern, love and sacrificial splendour;
arising from the dead, the very victim
victorious,
and the whole plan announced for
millenia.
With God all things are possible;
what is NOT possible is any reality without Him.
It is to the comfort, assurance and
joy of His people,
as well as to the snatching of burning
wood-ends from the fires of folly,
that this book is now presented.
May it bless you who read, and
lead you to entire realisation
of the trustworthiness of the Lord,
and of His word,
which in fact endures while the
generations pass,
and changes not at all. Truth does
not have to… it is right.
