THE HOLINESS OF GOD A Call to Gratitude Professor R. A. Finlayson (1895-1989) We owe both the word and the thought of holiness distinctly to revelation. It is only the Bible that speaks of the holiness of God, and the Bible speaks of God as the only Holy One. ‘There is none holy as the …
Author: R.A. Finlayson
THE FADING LEAF AND ITS MESSAGE’ ‘We all do fade as a leaf.’ Isaiah 64.6. Whatever we may think of this verse as a text, it is regularly seasonable, and falling leaves bear their own message to us. Each season of the year has its corresponding season in human life; each phase in nature has …
THE SAVING WORK OF JESUS CHRIST The late Prof. R. A. Finlayson, M.A. The saving work of Christ is that which He has undertaken in His capacity as Mediator between God and man. And Christ’s mediatorial work is inseparably connected with His offices as Prophet, Priest, and King. Here the term “offices” has the sense …
FOUNDATIONS OF THE EASTER MESSAGE R. A. Finlayson Festus, the Roman Governor, put the case for Christianity in simple terms when he told Herod that it was a matter of “one Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.” That was the issue then: it is the issue now. On the fact of …
THE ASSURANCE OF FAITH Professor R. A. Finlayson* On the assurance of faith, or the assurance of salvation as it is most often called, Christian thought is sharply divided. Some hold that it is impossible to attain to it, and that it is presumptuous either to ask for or expect it, while others have held …
PAUL’S CONFLICT IN THE FLESH Revd. R. A. Finlayson, M.A. It is considered that Paul’s Epistle to the Romans has done more than any document ever written to uplift and unfetter the human spirit and bring it into possession of the liberty wherewith Christ makes His people free. And yet to many it is the …