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Restoration Study Guide

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by Rose Tremain
About 61 pages (18,300 words)
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Restoration

Since this work had a Biblical, religious and spiritual theme it is appropriate to look at the word restore in a Biblical sense. In Old Testament Hebrew, restore means: Turn back, turn to, return; to restore, recover, bring back; most often translated "return." Restoration is most used in the Biblical sense to indicate God restoring the nation of Israel to its own land and later in Christ restoring all of creation to its original state.

However, in actual practice, there can be no restoration to a past that is already behind us. One may return to the original place, activity or station in life in the physical realm seen with the eyes, but when one is finally "restored" to something, one is a totally different person mentally and spiritually than the person who started out on.....

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