It seems fairly certain that the addition or subtraction John of Patmos refers to are to be applied to the book of Revelation and not the entire Bible texts....
Outside are the dogs…and everyone who loves and practices falsehood (Revelation 22:15): The term “dogs” was sometimes used as a metaphor for people of low...
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Wow, nice to see more reasoning and a deeper study of the Word!
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Aurel, very well stated. Finally; someone actually understands what the Bible teaches. God's breath gave life to Adam making him a human soul and his breath...
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Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
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Since Hebrews (as the name implies) was addressed to a Jewish readership, the epistle was devoted both to presenting Christ as the fulfillment of historical...
The concept of eternal life or life everlasting is all through the Old Testament. Let's look... In Genesis 22 Abraham is to offer his only son as a...
"Phillips Brooks said that prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness. Persistence in prayer is not an attempt...
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Lord, forgive me when I wrongly believe that you are bothered by my problems or I fear that you will become angry about my complaints and grief. God help me...
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You hit it out with that last line: "God does not save by carnal weapons." That's the sharpest point of the whole story. A young lad tells how his Lord had...
Yes, of course God created more humans other than Adam and Eve. The anthropologists have discovered nine human species from fossil skeletal remains,...
I understand the point of the question from a scientific perspective, but if it was possible for God to bring a plague of darkness on the Egyptians, while at...
I would say that, although it is commendable to be consistent and regular in prayer, the more that one repeatedly prays the same prayer or a formulaic prayer...
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This is a great description of Augustine. I would add one thing though. John Calvin borrowed extensively from Augustine in his major works titled "Institutes...
Lot was willing to sacrifice his 2 unmarried daughters to the lust of the crowd (see Judges 19). Lot had lost his personal values in this wicked city of...
Please let me know if there’s a Christian church which abides completely with the word of God. As I perused Christian church beliefs they all seem to differ....
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Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
In my opinion, the references to water and blood in relation to Christ are allusions to both His human birth as well as to His baptism in water (which bonded...
I find the Amplified Bible's expansion upon Paul's statement in Ephesians 6:4 to be useful in regard to the question. It provides the following commentary:...
Habakkuk 2:4 indicated that the just would live by faith -- a promise that the New Testament connects not just to this temporal life, but to the life to come...
When God called Hosea to marry a "wife of whoredom" he was not commanding Hosea to break God's law and marry a prostitute. To say that God called Hosea to...
Jehoiachin was the grandson of King Josiah. Josiah had four sons, I Chronicles 3:15. The firstborn, Johanan, is never heard from again. But the other three...
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Good comparison Shirley! Thanks!!
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Matthew 7:3: "Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?" Paul is saying the same thing here in...
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So I guess the thing to do at an assembly like the one I attend, where on the third Sunday of the month when we take Holy communion and there are about 5,000...
I would say, to live a godly life as a single person requires being totally dependent upon the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been sent to help every...
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First, these are God's unfaithful people, not children. You can refer to them as children of God who were steeped in idolatry! In Isaiah 1:1-3 we read a...
Elijah appears in 1 Kings 17:1. His name means, "the Lord is my God." Elijah was "on fire" for God. Moses had encountered God in the 'burning bush.' God is...
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In other words there is perfect will and permissive will. Well said.
Our apostle Paul answers this below in verse 8 of 1 Corinthians: (1 Corinthians 2:5-9) "5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the...
"Pleasure", from the Greek word eudokia, is translated as purpose or intention. God works through us as he deems necessary once we have been sealed with the...
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It's strange to me how we can discredit scientific evidence and then, in the same trial, call scientific evidence to the witness box and say, 'There is...
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Brenda Cole, did you become a believer differently than the scientist you speak of? The only way to become a believer is to be converted from unbelief by...
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I agree with most of what Mr Houdmann wrote. There is no prehistoric man. Mankind was formed by the hand of God and did not evolve from anything. I don't...
I believe God consists of three distinct persons, as the Scriptures appear to indicate. Genesis 1:1 states that God commanded that the universe be created....
Gentiles are not of a tribe of Israel. Gentiles are anyone outside of the nation Israel. We see that the isles of the Gentiles were created from Noah's son...
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A company that asks anyone about matters of faith should be investigated. If an avowed atheist company owner openly advertised contempt for hiring people of...
Gentiles consist of all people who are not Jewish -- that is, who are not descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob (whom God also named Israel (Genesis...
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Why did God send the Israelites to Egypt for 400 years?
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Thank you Ainsley for your comments. "Scientific findings are consistent with a young earth of about 6,000 years old." Okay, you're a scientist... Will you...
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Mark, "the beginning of creation" isn't THE BEGINNING of the existence of existence! There had to be an existence for God and his angelic host. The part of...
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With respect, I see a problem with your thinking. If there are no plans on marraige and you want to be single then you'd just be friends. Sexual immorality...
Even the official teaching gets this wrong. The bible is quite clear that you “give” an eye for an eye, not have it taken from you. So if there is an...
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