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Swear to God: The Promise and Power of the Sacraments is unavailable, but you can change that!

The most solemn, majestic, and beautiful gifts that Jesus Christ gave to the world are his sacraments. He endowed them with unprecedented and unparalleled power—power to change lives, save souls, and share God’s very life. The sacraments are the ordinary means by which God directs the course of each human life and all of world history. The Church celebrates seven sacraments: baptism, Eucharist,...

why God could never have sworn an oath: (1) God is almighty and has no one greater to swear by; and (2) God is unchanging and eternal, and so He cannot bear a curse. Yet, for Christians, it is His divine nature itself that guarantees the oath. Both the Old Testament and the New report that God swore by Himself (see Gen 22:16, Heb 6:13). “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose He interposed with an oath” (Heb 6:17). Moreover,
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