In recent years, several news reports of water turning a blood-red color have appeared. A canal in Nootdorp, the Netherlands; Bondi Beach in Australia; the...
The Shemitah (sometimes spelled Shemita or Shmita) is the final year in a seven-year cycle of debt forgiveness and land use prescribed for Israel in the Old...
Proverbs 12:10 states, "The righteous care for the needs of their animals, / but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." This verse specifically links...
Proverbs 14:31 states, "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, / but whoever is kind to the needy honors God." This verse teaches an...
The significance of the new moon in Bible times is that it marked the beginning of a new month (the Hebrew calendar is lunar-based), and it was a time when...
Applying the Bible is the duty of all Christians. If we don't apply it, the Bible becomes nothing more to us than a dry, tedious tome, an impractical...
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What is the intermediate state?
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Is there a difference between the book of life and the Lamb's book of life?
The kingdom of God is for the humble. When the bible says, 'blessed those who are poor in spirit', it means that God blesses those who depend on him. When...
Do we all receive just one spiritual gift? Several? Does it vary person to person?
1 Corinthians 12:11
God is Love - that is the image. Making humans, male and female, reflects the Love that exists in the persons of the Holy Trinity: 1. Father - source of...
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Will God continue to forgive you if you commit the same sin over and over again?
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Are all sins equal to God?
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What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?
After reading the answers & comments to this Q, I see all of the "jots & tittles" but find another Q should have been part of the answer, Does GOD...
A fairy tale; there is nothing in scripture that supports this false teaching that has been imposed upon scripture. The scriptures that most used to support...
The true meaning of Christmas was/(is) to honor a pagan sun-god. The practice and festivity predate the Incarnation of the Messiah. Christmas has nothing -...
Since I am a 'simple person at heart' and lean towards simplistic methods of analysis in just about any form of task that needs me to grasp and understand...
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How does the Holy Spirit work with me?
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What does the Bible say about Christian blended families?
The shortest word in the Bible is John 11:35 "Jesus wept" in the English language. Although some modern translations will dispute that. It ranks 3rd when the...
In my opinion Michael has put fore the Biblical and historical references to this question. I'll address a different view with a more current tack of...
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What is the definition of idolatry?
In Proverbs 1:20-33 and Proverbs 8:1-9:12, wisdom is personified as a woman who has much to offer-including "enduring wealth and prosperity" and "life"-to...
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What is the Feast of Tabernacles?
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What is Iglesia ni Cristo?
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them -...
How can the Anti-Christ be present both when the scripture was written and in the present? The scripture sounds like it's saying that the spirit of the anti ...
1 John 4:1 - 6
That is, is there any other step a person has to take first, such as be a certain age, or take a class, etc?
Acts 8:36 - 38
1 Corinthians 6:1
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What can we learn about the Kingdom of God from the Sermon on the Mount (AKA the beattitudes)?
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Do the souls of aborted babies go to heaven?
We should pray for the peace of Jerusalem because it is the holy city of God. King David conquered the city from the Jebusites and established it as the...
Today and every day since Christ no one is under the law. Christ did away with it when He fulfilled it all and instituted salvation by faith in His death...
The term Aramaic Primacy is used, informally, to refer to the claim that the New Testament was originally written not in Koine Greek but in a dialect of...
Proverbs 9:1 states, "Wisdom has built her house; / she has set up its seven pillars." This is obviously a symbolic description, since wisdom is personified....
Proverbs 10:27 states, "The fear of the LORD adds length to life, / but the years of the wicked are cut short." We know that the fear of God is the beginning...
In Christianity, Holy Tuesday is the last Tuesday prior to Easter Sunday; it is the third day of Holy Week after Palm Sunday and Holy Monday. Depending on...
There are two women named Salome in the Bible, but only one is mentioned by that name. One Salome was righteous; the other unrighteous. The righteous Salome...
In the 1950s the world feared it was on the edge of a nuclear apocalypse. Near the turn of the century, there was worldwide speculation about Y2K and the...
Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort were 19th-century theologians and Bible scholars. Together, they produced The New Testament in the Original Greek, one of the...
God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the...
Ten men named Jonathan are mentioned in the Bible, but we will only look at two here. The first is the son of Gershom, making this Jonathan the grandson of...
The term spiritual covering is usually used in the context of the Shepherding movement, though it can have other meanings. In its primary context, having a...
Jael in the Bible was the wife of a man named Heber, who was a Kenite. The Kenites were related to the Midianites. Jael features in the book of Judges as a...
Common sense is sound judgment in practical matters. In Proverbs 8:5 some translations speak of the need to develop "common sense," which other translations...
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