Revelation 12:4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. Revelation 12:1-17 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman ...
The act of murder is rampant in the Bible. In much of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, there are laws that command that people be killed for absurd reasons such as working on the Sabbath, being gay, cursing your parents, or not being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition...
The command not to murder is part of the Ten Commandments God provided to help us live faithful lives before Him and others (Exodus 20:13). Suicide opposes the natural tendency of humans to preserve their own lives. It is contrary to self-care, cuts off the potential for loving ...
Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your
What the Bible Says About Abortion ---New Window 5-1-2000Katie Stewart "Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of The Judgment" (Matthew 5:21). First, abortion "on demand" is the sin of murder, "and ye know that no murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in...
What about suicide? It is generally agreed that the prohibition of murder includes murder of oneself and therefore prohibits suicide. Christians are commanded to “love your neighbour as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39). This assumes that we have a basic level of self-love. Tragically, individuals ...
If we are trying to figure out what the Bible says about violence, we will have to find the passages that offer major insights, and those passages may not even use the word violence at all—for instance, Cain murdering Abel (Gen. 4:8). It is helpful to do word searches, but only ...
We cannot talk about murder without talking about rage. We cannot talk about shootings in schools and movie theaters without talking about the infections of hatred, malice, and anger in our culture. And then there is this important teaching, again from the Sermon on th...
James 1:27 says that true religion is taking care of widows and orphans.How do church-goers justify creating hundreds of thousands of widows and orphans through mass murder and destruction of their property?It takes a Ph.D. to not be a pacifist....
5 Quote (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143 ): The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice ...