10 interesting facts about abraham in the bible

John Glas believed in the restoration of the New Testament church and he began in repudiating human creeds, human names and human doctrines. Robert not only had a brilliant mind but an outgoing personality. About he joined John Glas and together they set out to "restore primitive New Testament practices." Both believed in church autonomy, observing the Lord's Supper on the first day of the week, that faith comes as a result of evidence or testimony, and the possibility of restoring the New Testament church.

Robert Sandeman came to America in where he established the Lord's church in Boston, Massachusetts, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Danbury, Connecticut. He settled in Danbury and remained there until he died on April 2, at the age of 53 years.

In , he was immersed and received as a member of the Baptist church in Woodstock, Vermont. He had strong religious convictions and started preaching in His first sermon was titled, "Search the Scriptures." This title well describes his mental activity at this time as he had (in eighteen months) committed most of Romans through Revelation to memory.

In , the question of baptism had been settled in his mind, he wrote, "Baptism is by burying the believer under water, and raising him out of it again. This, is the only Scriptural mode of baptism. I searched the Scriptures carefully and found infant baptism not there." A search of the Scriptures brought about a break with the Baptist church.

In , he was the first to advance the all sufficiency of the name "Christian."

He mastered Latin, Greek and Hebrew. With his meager public schooling, he yet attained a level of scholarship that few graduates (or even professors) could approach. At the age of twenty-one, with his keen intellect of the Scriptures, he discovered that the Bible did not teach the terrible Calvinist doctrines that he had heard.

"I determined to believe and practice what I found required in the Bible, and no more. I will have nothing but what saith the Lord, and thus it is written." Abner Jones spent his days preaching more than once a day. He died in in Exeter, New Hampshire.

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In he established Franklin College and served as president until Some of the greatest preachers of that day were graduates of this institution. Among them were David Lipscomb, T.B. Larimore, E.G. Sewell, E.W. Carmack, J.E. Scobey and William Lipscomb. The influence for good which he exercised in the lives of these men, and many others, is immeasurable and continues to this day.

Tolbert Fanning passed from his life May 3,

Sewell as like that of Jonathan and David, beautiful, pleasant and tender, wholly free of all susupicion of jealousy. He was a gentle man and his writings breathed the spirit of the Master. He lived to advanced old age.

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Like a sheaf ripe for harvest, he was garnered by his heavenly Father March 2,

He was instrumental in the establishment of many New Testament churches. In , in cooperation with James A. Harding, he founded the Nashville Bible School, now David Lipscomb University, in which he ordered that every student was to be taught the Word of God every day. He did more than any other person of his day to preserve New Testament Christianity.

He passed from this life on November 11,

Larimore at his home at Mars' Hill

He had very little time to attend school as he was hired to work six days a week on a farm which he was paid four dollars a month. At the age of about twenty, he graduated from Mossy Creek College, having made a record as one of the best students ever enrolled in the school. He had a short tour in the Confederate Army. Assigned as a scout he was captured and sent to Federal headquarters.

Soon after his release, he moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky where he began to preach the Gospel. Between preaching, teaching and working as a logger he took a course at Franklin College under Tolbert Fanning, graduating as valedictorian of his class, in After his marriage to Miss Ester Gresham, they determined to establish a school for boys and girsl at Mars' Hill, near Florence, Alabama.

The school was a success - being a school in which the Bible was taught. Each student was required to recite at least one lesson each day in the Bible. There were many men who graduated as faithful Gospel preachers from the school. After seventeen busy years, the demand for him to do evangelistic work, the school was closed. He traveled from Maine to Mexico, from the Carolinas to California, preaching twice a day and three times every Sunday.

He held many Gospel meetings which lasted for several weeks at a time, his longest meeting was at Sherman, Texas - beginning January 4, , continuing twenty-two weeks and one day, where he preached three hundred and thirty-three sermons. In , his evangelistic work took him from British Columbia to Eastern Canada, and from Mexico to Cuba.

He preached regularly until when his health prevented him from traveling. He passed from this life March 18,

E.H. was in school at Sequatchie College when the War Between the States began. He left school and enlisted in the Federal forces, Sixth Tennessee Infantry, Company G., and served to the close of the war. In May, , he was baptized into Christ by Elder James Billingsley. At the age of thirty-one, he married Miss Mary Foust of Dayton, Tennessee.

He began to preach the Gospel at a place now known as Old Bethel in His activities as a preacher carried him into Alabama, Georgia, and Kentucky. Wherever he went he established congregations of the New Testament church and labored with them until they had developed sufficiently to carry on by themselves. E. H. Boyd was loyal to the truth and preached the Gospel with simplicity and persuasion.

He had been living in Bridgeport, Alabama, but in , he moved back to Dayton, Tennessee where, in his younger life, he had bought a farm. This farm, he deeded for a church house and schoolhouse, which is known as Old Bethel. He passed from this life on September 3,

T. Q., by the age of seven, would go to the neighbors, pick up the dirty clothes, and return them when his mother had washed them. He churned butter for a neighbor lady, and for his effort was awarded some buttermilk to take home to his family. In , while working at a sawmill he got the idea that he wanted to attend College of the Bible.

He studied under the renowned J.W. McGarvey and later, he spent a year in the Nashville Bible School and studied under David Lipscomb. From his youth, he read every Christian newspaper he could find and was later, the editor of the Christian Leader. He taught school with James A. Harding at the Potter Bible College at Bowling Green, Kentucky.

He preached in evangelistic meetings in thirty-two states and the District of Columbia. From through , he did local work in several states, the last, due to failing health, was the Central church of Christ in McMinnville, Tennessee. T.Q. ranked among the best preachers of his time. His services were continually sought after. He passed from this life June 17,

He devoted his entire life to preaching the Gospel of Christ. He resolved that he would evangelize as much of the world as he could in the time the Lord permitted him to be on the earth, even if it meant sleeping on the floor and going to bed hungry. He moved from Quebec to Valdosta, Georgia and started preaching in the surrounding communities as well as in three places in South Florida.

He refused to settle down at large congregations where they paid large salaries, but insisted on preaching to smaller congregations where he knew they could pay very little or none at all. During his entire ministry he never owned a horse and buggy nor automobile, he traveled by train, bus or some member of the church would drive him to his location.

He had great faith and always believed that God would provide. His life was one of simplicity and devotion. He passed away April 26,

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After finishing grade school he took the opportunity to attend Walden University where he mastered five languages in addition to English: Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Latin. G.P. was very religious and his childhood religious experience in the Methodist church was giving him second thoughts. Sam W. Womack, and other Christians in Nashville, took interest in him, teaching him the truth and he soon obeyed the Gospel and started preaching it.

Even though he lost his left arm earlier in life in an accident he became a master printer and at the age of twenty-eight, he edited a newspaper called, "The Christian Echo." He started a Christian school for black children on Jackson Street in Nashville and opened it on January 6, He also started schools in Silver Point near Cookville, Tennessee and was instrumental in setting up schools in Detroit, Fort Worth and a University in Terrell, Texas.

This great man dedicated his life to Christian education among blacks. He died March 23,

He was the son of Dr. John Bellefont Hardeman and Nancy Jane Hardeman. While attending West Tennessee Christian College in about , he was baptized into Christ by R.P. Meeks. He graduated in June of with a B.A. degree and when this school became the Georgie Robertson Christian College he enrolled and received his M.S.

degree and was a member of the faculty of this school for eight years. In he and A.G. Freed established the National Teachers' Normal and Business College, in Henderson, Tennessee, which is now known as Freed-Hardeman University. N.B. Hardeman was the speaker in the great Ryman Auditorium Tabernacle Meetings. These sermons were carried by radio broadcast and printed in both Nashville newspapers daily.

Brother Hardeman passed away on November 6,

He wrote for the GOSPEL ADVOCATE for almost forty years as contributor, staff writer, and editor. His commentaries on Matthew, Acts, and Luke are widely regarded as the best on their subject. A large part of his life was spent in Christian education. He passed from this life on February 7,

J.D. better known as just "D" knew well what it was to walk in the vale of poverty. He had very little time for school, but studying very hard, he was able to enroll in M.T.N (now Middle Tennessee State University), where he later met his future bride, Miss Frances Crouch, daughter of a Gospel preacher. After their marriage, he started preaching the Gospel on a regular schedule.

J.D. Boyd traveled over much of America, preaching the Gospel. Every place he went, he was loved and respected. He spent many years in North Louisiana and was one of the best known and most loved preachers of his time. He preached from to , and was a faithful servant unto his death.

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Although limited in education, he, nevertheless, acquired a remarkable knowledge of the Bible and human nature.

He married Miss Minnie Womack, a Fisk University high school graduate. With the help of his father-in-law, S.W. Womack and other gospel preachers, he started preaching the gospel soon after A.M. Burton, founder of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company, became his friend and patron. During his life he preached from the Golden Gate Bridge to New York harbor and around the world.

Frank G. Clement, former Governor of Tennessee, appointed him the first black Colonel Aide-de-Camp in Tennessee history. He was also made an honorary chief over one of the largest Nigerian tribes in Africa. Brother Keeble held gospel meetings anywhere he could find space large enough to erect his tent. There have been thousands, white and black, who have heard his sermons all over the country.

Biography of abraham bible: Guy N. Woods () was born September 26, , in Vardeman, Mississippi, the oldest of three children. He attended Freed-Hardeman College and then obtained his law degree, being accepted to the bars of both Texas and Tennessee.

When he left a place there would be hundreds that obeyed the Word of God by being baptized into Christ. It has been estimated that in his preaching career, he baptized at least forty thousand precious souls into the body of Christ, making him responsible for populating heaven with more souls of the saints than anyone else this side of the first century.

Brother Keeble passed from this life April 20,

Any small biography sketch as this, cannot do justice to this versatile and talented man. He had the richest collection of illustrative and anecdotal material of any man living. Many honors came to him in life and he served the Cause of the Master with undimished devotion and dedication. He served as pulpit minister for the Hillsboro congregation from to , and an elder there for the rest of his life.

Brother Goodpasture was named editor of the GOSPEL ADVOCATE in , and served until he was called from this earth to be with his Father on February 16,

His books, debates, and other voluminous writings are among the most widely read in the church today and they will continue to be used and appreciated so long as men love and respect the sacred writings. Brother Wallace served as editor of the GOSPEL ADVOCATE form to He was living in Hereford, Texas when he passed away on December 18,

He received his A.B. degree from Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He became Head of the Bible Department and Professor of Homiletics at David Lipscomb College, and was largely unheralded as a minister and teacher in the Word of God.

He was a capable, caring man who took his students seriously, a man of compassion, tenderness, a love for everyone he met. Also, a man of genuine commitment. He was deeply committed to his God and family. Brother Baxter was the author of many books which are still in great demand today. He passed from this life on March 31,

It is with our sincere thanks and appreciation to brother Jim Bill McInteer, President of 21st CENTURY CHRISTIAN, and to brother Neil W. Anderson, editor of the GOSPEL ADVOCATE COMPANY for their permission to use it. Also, to brother J.M. Powell for his research of material used in his very informative book THE CAUSE WE PLEAD a story of the Restoration Movement, published by the 20th CENTURY CHRISTIAN, Nashville, Tennessee.  This site is under the over site of the elders at The Church of Christ at East End, McMinnville TN,