God is sovereign over all his creation (Isaiah 40: 1-31). He alone has the right to judge the life of every human being according to the standards he has...
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It is important to differentiate what kind of seeking we are talking about: 1) Is a person seeking to start a relationship with God or 2) Is a person seeking...
The mode of one's death (regardless of whether a person is a Christian or a non-Christian) is not the decisive consideration in the attainment of eternal...
1. Become thoroughly familiar with His word (the Bible), which is God's revelation of Himself to humanity. Read it in its entirety (from front to back, just...
I would say that Hosea was ordered to do this by God (just as God had earlier (in Hosea 1) ordered him to marry that same woman -- who was described as a...
Christ's Name is Yehoshu'a (Gr. 'Iesous/Aram. Yeshua/Eng. Joshua). In Hebrew, His Name means "Yahoah saves," where Yahoah is the proper pronunciation of the...
People have been discussing the date of the book of Revelation and its author for as long as I can remember in my Christian walk. Dates of authorship have...
As Tim rightly pointed out that we need not bother about the political situation prevailed at Jesus’ time. We should only focus on the spiritual aspects and...
3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israel...
Hosea 3:1
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What did Jesus mean when He said "I am the way and the truth and the life"?
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, monolatry (also called monolatrism) is the worship of only one god without denying the existence of other...
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What does the Bible say about an unhappy marriage?
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Can an unmarried man be a deacon or elder?
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What should be the mission of the church?
I'm not an architect, but I have always pictured the pagan temple in question as a building with sides that consisted of stone columns, each of which was...
By my understanding, the Zealots (or Canaanites) were a Jewish group dedicated to the overthrow or expulsion (by violence if necessary) of the Roman...
How did knocking down two pillars make the whole building collapse? (16:29–30) 29 Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple sto...
Why does the Devil want people to sin? What does he “gain” from this? This is a difficult question to answer directly. All the Bible tells us is that the...
I would say that Matthew, Mark, and John were describing the same garment from perspectives that could have differed for varying reasons, possibly including...
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What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses?
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Is gluttony a sin? What does the Bible say about overeating?
I've always taken it to be from a possible mixture of 1) the dressing customs associated with weddings of the time and culture, in which the woman might have...
Genesis 29:21 - 30
Perhaps the best answer is that God is both male and female. God created us in His image. Also, "... male and female He created them." I don't need to tell...
It seems to me that the individuals described in the question are the ones mentioned in Revelation 20, who are raised in the first resurrection at the time...
In my opinion, this verse is merely indicating that, although Samson was appointed by God as a Nazirite even before his conception (as described in Judges...
How did the Spirit of the Lord begin to stir Samson? (13:24-25)-- 24 The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the Lord blessed him,...
The camel can endure days in scorching hot deserts while transporting precious cargo... John the baptist wearing this camel hair symbolizes John's purpose:...
I was doing a search for, "Did the angel really tell Joseph you are to name the child Jesus?", when I came across this posting. My thoughts are: if his name...
In my opinion, when Jesus spoke of the young man becoming "perfect", He was not meaning it in the sense of "sinless" (since no one, including Christ's...
I think that the answer is in the question. The name Christianity contains the element Christ. The word Christianity only came into being around 1300AD. The...
How would selling all his possessions and giving them to the poor make him "perfect"?
Matthew 19:21
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit happens as soon as you believe and stays with you forever. You can quench or grieve Him (Eph 4:30, 1 Thes 5:19) by turning...
This is a great question! As someone who speaks in tongues daily, I have some ideas, but I'll start with what Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 14: 14 For if I...
I would say that, since the ability to speak in tongues is a specific gift of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:10), the bestowing of it on an individual is...
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What is the Jubilee?
Does the Holy Spirit take over a persons tongue until speaking in tongues is over, or does the person speaking in tongues actually have some control over it?
Acts 2:1 - 47
Joseph, because he did the right thing, and did not commit adultery with Potiphar's wife, ended up in prison. But God promoted him to head over all Egypt as...
To rebuke literally means to reprimand sharply. How did Jesus rebuke satan in Matt:4 when tempted? He spoke the word of God saying, "It is written." We as...
The book of Lamentations in the Old Testament tells us. Lamentations 2:19, "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart...
When I started preaching many years ago, I remember my mentor told me, "People remember two things, what the laugh at and what shocks them." If we look at...
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What does Isaiah 58:7 mean by "not to hide yourself from your own flesh?"
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What is "the letter" in 2 Corinthians 3:6 and what does it kill?
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What is the law of Christ?
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What does it mean to resist the devil, and why will resistance cause the devil to flee?
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