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The key question which I have never seen answered is this: are people saved by individual faith in Jesus or are they saved because they are born Jews? If you...
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I like the spirit of your answer, James. A woman in our church takes women who have had abortions through a "healing steps" program (I don't recall the name...
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Wow, not boring after being reminded like this. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Amen!
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You gave a good analysis of what faith is. Romans 1:17 says this: For in it ("it" being the gospel, so in the gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed...
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i understand completely. What encourages me somewhat is remembering Matt. 7:1-2, especially "with the measure you judge it will be judged unto you". So you...
My father who was a baptist preacher preached a lot of funerals for people he did not know. He always said, "We can not know whether a person has ever...
First John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart. First John 3:23 And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name...
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used or using anything that ought to be worshipped. - Augustine Today’s idols are more in the self than on...
"Sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4) Sin is unrighteousness (“All unrighteousness is sin” – 1 John 5:17) This is a blanket mortgage covering every kind of sin....
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Due to the fact that Judah worshipped pagan gods, she was stripped of her dignity and became an object of scorn.
Let me speculate a little, as scripture doesn't fully explain why Jesus decided to do as His mother asked and perform this miracle, His first recorded. Much...
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Then the question comes, is self defense or the defense of your family murder? Are we not to defend the defenseless? If a man is about to rape your wife, do...
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What is the meaning and purpose of saying grace before a meal?
In my opinion, the red horse was indicative of punishment inflicted by God through the shedding of blood (from which the horse's color comes), both in...
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How was Judah's nakedness exposed? (Lamentations1:8)
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Were women actually eating their own children? (Lamrntations 4:10)
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In what way did Enoch walk with God?
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“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works,...
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What you keep speaking of is righteousness. The only way to have righteousness is through Jesus. He is the door to righteousness and salvation. I believe you...
The key factor to me is that the one most concerned with the lack of wine was Mary (Jesus' mother). Why Mary? Well the ones with the greatest responsibility...
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You are correct. We can do nothing in and of ourselves to pay our debt. That comes only from The Lord Himself. In regards to the original posed, at the time...
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James, we don't live under the Old Testament laws anymore. Jesus fulfilled that requirement. Murder is murder whether sanctioned by a government or not. The...
Many deliverance problems require a step of faith. Same as with you, viz., been there done that. Was addicted to Oxycontin for 14 years. I was afraid of...
If you read through the book of Jeremiah, you will find sections where God pronounces judgments on Judah and on the nations around her. However, God includes...
The book of Jeremiah, written by the same author as Lamentations, is a book about Judah forsaking the Lord as an unfaithful wife forsakes her husband. The...
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What is the significance of '40 days' in the Bible?
Since the genealogy in Genesis 5 in which Enoch appears plainly says that all the other individuals spoken of in the genealogy (except for Enoch) died, the...
Another separate example (aside from the reference made by Jeremiah) to this desperate practice is described in 2 Kings 6:24-30, during the days of Elisha...
24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
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How did a sensual book like the Song of Solomon get in the Bible?
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How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the Fall?
I would say that the honor that a Christian should give to parents is a positional, volitional concept that is not connected to or conditional upon whatever...
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Yes, I did. Thank you for catching that.
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Who was King Uzziah?
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What is the doctrine of Balaam?
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Tim, in your statement, "avenge his sufferings (Jeremiah 3:55-66)," didn't you mean Lamentations 3:55-66?
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Sometimes, too, Tim, I have a similar problem. When the reference I've typed into ebible doesn't show up in its entirety, i.e. when it's hyphenated,...
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I can't speak with regard to the English Standard Version (ESV). However, in addition to being in my hard-copy of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible,...
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You're right; Jesus was never JUST anything. A boy is born and he's just a son. He marries and he's just a son with a wife. He has a son and he's just a son...
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I don't know what your first point of Mr Houdmann's answer means. You said that Mr Houdmann made an observation that "others considered [Jesus] a prophet "...
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Great answer Mr Houdmann! I thought it was obvious that anyone who claimed to be chosen of God to speak to the inhabitants of Earth on God's behalf was...
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In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus says, depart from me I never knew you. Not I did know you and now I don't. I never knew you. Why, Because they never believed He...
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The question is, do we ever reach a point that we can not be forgiven? No, We believe when we believe we are forgiven all trespasses. Colossians 2:13. The...
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Another answer well-written, Tim. However, for some reason your reference to Lamentations 3:55-66 ESV is not found in this system!
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