Gen 11:4 says the people wanted to make a name for themselves lest they be scattered. It seems to me that this whole "look at me" mentality that is prevalent...
The Christian life is about growing in God over time and exchanging our imperfect ways for God's holy and perfect ways. At the moment of salvation, we are...
How can I do things without grumbling (some versions say complaining) when that is all I can think about. How can I love when all I do is hate? Does God expe...
Philippians 2:14
I would say Rosetta stone can be compared to the Tower of Babel as a mordern day achievement, in that out of the Towel of Babel came all the languages of the...
I would say no. And here is why. In Acts 2:1-13 the bible says When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And...
2 Samuel 21:1 - 14
2 Samuel 21:1 - 14
Jesus visited the Temple, noted that they had turned it into a den of thieves, and came back the next day to clean house. He explains what He was thinking...
Wow! Too many to number! 1) The United Nations 2) Barack Hussein Obama 3) The War in VietNam 4) The War in Iraq 5) ........hundreds more.
Other than Luke 2:41-52, the Bible does not tell us anything about Jesus' youth. From this incident we do know certain things about Jesus' childhood. First,...
Part of the reason we know little of Jesus' childhood has also to do with the eyewitness nature of the gospels. Chances are Jesus was not known to the...
Acts 19 is a good place to start. Here we have believers, on thier way to heaven. Paul asked have you recieved the Holy Ghost since you believed they said...
First Corinthians 10:13 says, "No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond...
That is a valid question, because if we did leak then surely we could stop it from leaking. We are a spirit and our spirits do need nourishment. Jesus said...
I'm not sure what you mean by "leaky vessels". Leaky in the sense that we use the restroom or leaky in the sense that we leak God's love to others or leaky...
We do not leak in the sense that we need to be "topped up" The Holy Spirit is a person, not a quantity, you are either indwelt by Him or you are not. We are...
Do you thik he's thinking about "cleansing the temple," the market that goes on in there? Is he thinking about God? Is he thinking about how the temple will ...
Mark 11:11
Jesus asked Peter three times,"Do you love me?" as recorded in John 21:15-17. This occurred when Jesus was having breakfast with His disciples soon after His...
This is one of my favorite passages from John. There are only two places in the entire NT where (in Greek) specifically a "charcoal fire" is mentioned. One...
Taking the worst thing David did, he committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband. Both offenses under Moses law demanded the death penalty,...
There has long been a notion that Jesus never laughed. Traditionally, paintings of Jesus have tended toward melancholy portrayals of a somber, glum Savior....
My opinion on this is that Jesus was as human as they come. He was a baby and all the babies I know laugh a lot and of course cry a lot. He was a toddler and...
Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." How does...
Please let people remember that the devil's original name was Lucifer[Angel of Light] that exists in heaven. Suddenly, he rebelled in his mind against God....
That's where God comes in. We can not love our enemy's on our own, We need to ask God to give us His love, to love someone we don't have the love for &...
At the time of Jesus' life, the "scriptures" consisted of the law and the prophets (i.e. the Old Testament). Consider John 17:12 where Jesus said, "...I have...
The LORD says in Mark 12:31 "The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a] There is no commandment greater than these.” The LORD also says, he...
If so, what did he do in these situations? This is a follow up question to http://ebible.com/questions/3787
There are a lot of people I don't like but would love enough to push out of the way of a speeding bus.
NO.... obviously, if one study the account of king David, one will see clearly the importance he attached to seeking God's direction/guidance in most of his...
I'm finding myself there now and I am dealing with the issues of conscience that come from this very failing I know I should take these things to him and...
Luke 23:43 - And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” [Paradise - (PARI- around + DAEZA- wall) Persian for grand...
loving and liking are not the same thing. Liking is not required for loving. I like flowers, dogs, pizza and ice cream. I love God, my neighbor, and my...
God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden to give Adam and Eve a choice to obey Him or disobey Him. Adam and Eve were free to do...
Quiet the opposite, prayer was the only answer. Unfortunatley, it too often happens that we use it when all other necessary means are exhusted. However,...
Believing the Bible to be literal (unless there are symbolisms and idioms) the garden of Eden was a literal garden where God placed man to take care of it...
To understand Jesus as God on earth praying to His Father in heaven, we need to realize that the eternal Father and the eternal Son had an eternal...
" Like" is the preliminary stage of love. without liking something you cannot love it.
Like the Pharisees were warned by Jesus in John 5: 39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to...
Yes, one will be judged. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw — each one's work will become manifest,...
Hate, love, and like are all points along a spectrum. Love is benevolence. Regardless of whether or not someone is "liked," "loved," or whatever else, it is...
Those with the indwelling Holy Spirit will NOT be judged! Rom 8:1 NIV - Therefore, there is now NO CONDEMNATION for those who are in Christ Jesus, Jhn 5:24...
The heavens and the earth were created in Genesis 1:1 to be a temporary place to process the eternal purpose of God, i.e. to multiply His eternal fellowship...
1. Romans 8:29 states that predestination is based upon God's foreknowledge. It is not God selecting who He wants saved and who He doesn't want saved. He...
The English word 'unleavened bread' is translation of Hebrew Matzah (pl.) and Greek AZUMOS. It is bread baked without letting it rise (remains flat like...
I see God as THE CREATOR and He creates as an extension of who He is. To ask Him why? Is kinda like asking an artist. "Why did you create so many paintings?"...
It's simple. 'Being saved' means one is coming to live in the Lord ('The one who lives in me is no longer me, but the Messiah' Gal 2:20). Salvation is not...
The word fallen is used in the Bible to describe someone or something spiritually and morally degraded. Israel is described as fallen (Amos 5:2), as are...
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