"To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins." (Acts 26:18)

All too often we consider forgiveness a mysterious and spiritual transaction that, once accomplished, is a past event that has little to do with our subsequent lives.

"And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." (Acts 4:33)

At the very outset, let me say that my experience in science has affected my interpretations of the Bible…. It is improbable that I ever would have come up with the view that the earth is millions of years old if I had never studied science.¹

"|Barnabus| was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith." (Acts 11:24)

"If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord." (Leviticus 5:15)

The "shadow of things to come" (Colossians 2:17) in the Old Testament focuses on physical items and places that were considered especially holy and dedicated.