The meaning of the parable of the tower and going to war with a king who's stronger starts in the beginning of the chapter of Luke 14. Jesus heals a man...
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What was the practice of casting lots?
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Perhaps the man after being crippled for 38 years had given up hope of ever being healed, or maybe he was afraid that if he were healed he would not be able...
Ezekiel 23:4
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Is Paul saying he wants married people to live as unmarried in 1 Corinthians 7:29?
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What is Jesus Culture? Is Jesus Culture biblical?
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How does God see me in Christ?
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What is a concubine? Why did God allow men to have concubines in the Bible?
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Who will go to heaven?
By my reading of the narrative, the events described in the passage cited in the question occurred in a dream, and thus were not an actual physical attack.
In my opinion, Paul is saying that any Christian's relationship with God takes precedence over any human relationship -- even one as close as marriage. He is...
Matt 10:32-34 the words confess and deny are very specific words of action. To verbally confess has as its direct opposite action of verbally denying. I’m...
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Well said, Cindy. God the Father sent our Lord Jesus not to establish an earthly Jewish Kingdom. But to establish God’s Kingdom, the church, whose head is...
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What does the Bible say about the prosperity gospel?
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Wow, great reflections here. I believe that Jesus consummated the Sabbath when He entered His rest so that those who are in Christ are not bound by the Law...
What is Paul really saying in this passage?
1 Corinthians 7:29
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All the members of the church I attend have been baptized, I don't have to read about the conversions in the book of Acts to know about baptism, Kevin....
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During Apostle Paul's time, the 1st day of the week would be what is now called Sunday by the gentiles. The Hebrews called days of the week by numbers just...
These two verses Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 I believe are easier to understand in the KJV Bible. They read, "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it...
In my opinion, David was speaking of being lifted out of a slimy pit in a figurative sense, saying that whatever difficulties or troubles he had faced had...
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I can only suggest that perhaps Moses and Elijah (although alive) were somehow different in their post-earthly experiences than Jesus with respect to having...
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Yes. However, one of the Roman emperors started an eight day week. It did not last long.
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Continuing,... Lk 16 isn't about whether hell can be seen from heaven, or any of the other distractions this story causes to pop up into the minds of people....
Psalm 40 New International Version (NIV) Psalm 40[a] For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me...
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Ultimately, no one escapes the death penalty. Nothing extra is added to death when it is expedited for the purpose of spotlighting God's corrective measures....
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Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus , but they were not resurrected. If they had been they would have walked in physical bodies again just as Christ did....
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Tim, what about Matthew 17:3 ? Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus and the apostles. Are those two resurrected?
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It's worth mentioning that most geologists believe there were *two* super-continents at different times - first Rodinia, and later Pangaea. While some...
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PSALM 104 New American Standard Bible 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they...
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Mr Houdmann I agree with your answer that man cannot live without God. But in the narrative of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16) it isn't stated anywhere...
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What about Moses and Elijah in Matthew 17:3 ? They appeared to Jesus 1000+ years after death. Only God the Father could have done their resurrection from the...
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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the GIFT of God is eternal Life. Can you lose eternal life? If you can then it was never eternal to begin...
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Well Danny, that is what you say, the Scriptures I listed clearly tell us the opposite. Go read every conversion in Acts and you will read that everyone was...
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I would like to add, it wouldn’t be much of a sign if the “young woman” was not a virgin, There is nothing noteworthy of a “young Woman” bearing a son.
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'Eternal Life' is something to be fulfilled in the future, as we only get our new Spiritual bodies at the Resurrection. But we also 'hold' eternal life as...
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What did Jesus mean when he said, "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword"?
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Should Christian women wear pants?
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The verses do not say God determined before hand who would be saved. The verses are talking about God determining that those who held fast to the end of...
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What does the Bible say about feminism? Should a Christian be a feminist?
I would say that the only reason that the values and qualities spoken of by Jesus in the beatitudes seem "upside-down" is because humanity had been the...
In my opinion, Jesus was making a reference in this verse to a similar promise contained in Psalm 37:10-11, in which "meekness" is presented as the...
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What does it mean "to cast your care upon The Lord?"
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Please don't confuse what Saul did when told to "go and strike Amalek and destroy all that he has... put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox...
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God didn't "require" death as punishment for murder, He "prescribed" it. It was "assigned" as appropriate disciplinary action for correction. If a man, such...
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