TheOld Testament(OT), as we have seen in the previous chapters, points ahead to the person God was going tosendfor bringing an end to the curse of death. From theHebrew Scriptureswe also come to know that this special messenger of God, a prophet, would come to call people to return f...
(Mather 4).Cryptic scriptures were dredged up to justify the wholesale slaughter of innocent Native women and children. “I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of the Covenant, Leviticus 26:25” (Mather 1). The Bible was their creed, a malleable text to justify ...
Jess Connolly. She posted about her friend that’s an 8 on the Enneagram test. At first I was so lost because I had no idea what an Enneagram test was. In short, it’s a personality test. So, I was curious as to what I was and took a free test online...
which are clearly revealed in the oracles of God. Whatever is plainly declared in the Old and New Testament is the object of their faith. They believed neither more nor less than what is manifestly contained in, and provable by, the Holy Scriptures. The Word of God is a “lantern...
The Scriptures say, "God opposes proud people, but he helps everyone who is humble." Douay-Rheims BibleIn like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. English ...
Nor, of course, is this fact surprising: that they did not receive some Scriptures that spoke of Him whom they did not receive. For they did not receive Him even when He was here in person, speaking in their presence.” Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol 4:16. By the end of the First Century...