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The whole bible is written as if someone other than the writer is doing the writing. It rarely happens that the writer uses the first person word "I," or...
Great question, Dan! It is an argument from silence, but really, the Bible doesn't give us enough details, I don't believe, here. I learned something from...
First, see the big picture about this failure of Moses: In Exod.17 God said to Moses, ‘Smite the rock’, and Moses obeyed. ‘That Rock was Christ’ (1 Cor....
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We don't know in what form we will be "in heaven." We do know that we won't inhabit the bodies in which we now live. There is no flesh and blood body in the...
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I don't know if you mean to, but this sounds as if you're ridiculing what Jesus said. He didn't say for us to be without understanding when we're confronted...
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The gospel of John is the same gospel that Paul preached. John 3:16-18. John 6:37-40 John 6:47.Those verses all agree with Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord...
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Nothing is except what is created by God. God created the angels in heaven. He did not create demons. Demons are fallen angels. When lucifer the the highest...
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First Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us who are saved, it is the POWER of God. First...
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How would you answer a friend who said, "I am not a biblical literalist and not a sin-focused or original sin believer."?
I would say that it was because the passage that Jesus was quoting was not something said by God Himself (as the Law given by God through Moses in Exodus...
Yes, being hemmed or fenced in could have a negative context. Just remember Roy Rogers' "Don't Fence Me In": Oh give me land, lots of land, and the starry...
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What can we learn from Rebekah in Genesis 24:12-21?
God gave that land to Israel. God created the heavens and the earth. It is all His land. But God gave that land to Israel. That still stands even though...
Isaac and Rebekah 24 Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. 2 He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in cha...
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"If Jesus could control and eliminate evil.... don't you think he would"? So, let me be sure I'm hearing this correctly... God isn't in control? He can't, is...
The idea of being "hemmed in" could have a negative or restrictive connotation, as the question appears to be interpreting it. However, in my opinion, David...
King Solomon's reign represented the height of Old Testament Israel's glory. 1 Kings 10 describes the majesty and splendor of his court, which included the...
Matt. 629: Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
Matthew 6:29
According to Strong's Concordance, Chephtsi-bah: "my delight is in her," a name for Zion, also the mother of King Manasseh Original Word: חֶפְּצִי בָּהּ Part...
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We just don't know how Abraham carried "the fire." Maybe he carried a live coal or a flint to start a fire. LASB
Psalm 139:5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Psalms 139:1 - 24
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Absolutely agree that God is surprising, mysterious, and just plain awesome! He knows all! Someday we will have an answer for whatever is puzzles us. Right...
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Ephesians 4:7-10. Jesus walked the earth for 40 days in His physical body before He ascended to heaven at the transfiguration. Doubting Thomas felt the hole...
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The one thief imitated the mockery of the religious leaders and asked Jesus to rescue him from the cross, but the other thief had different ideas. He may...
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Romans 3:26-28 For He is the just and the justifier of them that believe in Jesus. Where is boasting then? You can not boast in a free GIFT. Romans 6:23. It...
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I agree totally Danny. Slavery in the bible was willingly. A person could sell their self into slavery for a means of support. People did not sell people....
Jesus instructs concerning discipleship in Luke 14:25-27), in regard to the candidate's family (Luke 14:25-26)—a discipleship proof: He or she must place...
The Bible refers multiple times to an individual who has died as being "gathered to his people" (even prior to burial). To me, this could plausibly be...
Genesis 8:22: "While earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease." Leviticus 19:9 talks about...
As noted on the biblehub.com website for the cited verses, Strong's concordance indicates that the Hebrew word in question (anglicized as "esh") occurs 377...
The true gospel is beautifully stated in Titus 3:3-8: "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and...
Genesis 22: 6-7 says, 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and ...
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ALLITERATION is the repetition of the same letter or syllable, thus the same sound, at the beginning of two or more words in close succession. A study of...
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Spot on.
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Without a blood sacrifice there is no remission of sin. It is the blood of Jesus that covers us from all sin. John 3:18. Colossians 2:13 He has forgiven us...
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I don't know about other descendants of slaves who were brought here, but my family, who are descendants of slaves, are not "thankful to God for being...
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Thank you Jennifer, for this well written answer. I would desire to add only one element to your larger case: the fear of death. It’s the fear of death that...
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As a lover of ALLITERATION, let me just say that the first passage refers in general about the preexistence of heaven; the latter specifically about its...
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As noted in John 10:11-18, Jesus metaphorically described His followers as sheep, with Himself as their "good shepherd", because they were to follow Him in...
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