Nicola Calitz

Why did David kill the Philistines if God commands in the 10 commandments not to commit murder?

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked July 17 2021

Why does the Amplified version in Acts 17:22 speak of 'religious' as being 'reverent to demons'?

Comment • 3 Answers • Asked May 12 2018

How can man's disobedience break the covenant with God?

Isaiah 54:10

¹⁰ For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.

Comment • 2 Answers • 2 Votes • Asked December 10 2017

How can one apply James 5:12 to taking the medical oath (Hippocratic oath)?

Especially where it links with the Hippocratic oath medical practitioners...

James 5:12

¹² But above all [things], my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath; but let your yes be [a simple] yes, and your no be [a simple] no, so that you may not sin and fall under condemnation.

Comment • 1 Answer • 2 Votes • Asked August 23 2017

Why were Adam and Eve ashamed of their nakedness?

Also why did they only realise they were naked after they ate the forbidden...

Genesis 3:10

¹⁰ And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked August 12 2017

What does Ecclesiastes mean when it says, "God seeks that which has passed by [has been driven away]"?

Ecclesiastes 3:15

¹⁵ That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Comment • 3 Answers • 6 Votes • Asked June 18 2017

What do the thorns symbolize in Isaiah 27:4?

In the amplified version it elaborates by comparing the "briers and thorns"...

Isaiah 27:4

⁴ I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked May 11 2017