Disconcertingly, "crime" is as often used in English renderings as is "punishment." On the basis of a close analysis of the verses about Cain and Abel, I offer a translation that splits the difference between "crime" and "punishment." Avon turns out to mean...
The representation of Christ on the cross has been an important subject of Western art since the early Middle Ages. Concerned primarily with simple symbolic affirmations of salvation and eternal life, and repelled by the ignominy of the punishment, the early Christians did not represent the Crucifi...
As they read the Bible, church-goers are trying to "churchify" the verses, to make the verses fit into church-life and individualist/introspective thinking, but it doesn't work. The Bible is more about "The State" than it is "The Church," and the Bible is against the archists, not...
Bible Verses about Idolatry 1 Corinthians 10:7-14 - Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-th...
Put another way, Is God a liberal democrat? God is not liberal when it comes to crime and punishment. He does not soft on punishment. Some of these crimes receive strict sentences. He is not liberal on morality. He is not liberal when it comes to sex. ...
Using scripture, we will also clearly show that these verses do not teach that demons have the right or ability to inhabit Christians because of generational curses or that Satan has the right to inflict curses upon Christians as a result of ancestral sins. On the contrary, Christians have ...
(who was booted out of Eden for having dominant sex with Adam) to how women are blamed for the fall from grace. I had to settle for merely presenting a sample list as of right now and I shall add more verses as I thumb threw the Pentateuch a second time. In the mean while, ...
However, the death penalty that was supposed to be meted out to Adam and Eve was withheld. Earth has not experienced death as yet but ironically, it was animals on earth that had to experience death first. The Lord had to make coats of skins to cover the nakedness of the fallen Adam...
Jesus said of Himself, for example, "I and the Father are ONE" and "Before Abraham was even born, I AM." Jesus calls Himself God and the Son of God in many verses of the Gospel of John especially. His apostles John, Peter, and Paul likewise say many times in all of their New Te...
And I find it fascinating that these verses have suddenly captured the attention of the entire globe at this moment in history. We definitely do not “render true and perfect justice” and we love to “contrive evil”, and so we are doing the exact opposite of what we are instructed to ...