A person’s marriage history was so important to God that not just church officers, but even widows who were taken into the care of the church had to be “the wife of one man” (1 Tim 5:9) – not divorced. Because 1 Timothy 3:11 is missing any reference to the ability to teach ...
But the first of the Reformed party who gave to mysticism a definite shape was Valentine Weigel, minister of Ischopping, near Meissen, in Saxony; he died A.D. 1588. Mysticism has often made a close approach to pantheism, and so in his system he said that God had pity on himself in ...
Another writer (Hilgenfeld) has attempted a distinct definition of the three stadia of this development. It is difficult to discover in the actual history the regularity of departure and return implied in such a figure, and yet we may derive from it a correct notion of the general direction....
he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...
If we say that nothing is so and so, we are trying to give nothing some sort of ontological or “being” status, which by definition it simply cannot have. Nothing is not something. Nothing has no characteristics or qualities. Nothing is void of everything. It is the absence of anything...
Instead, people pray for and make changes to the natural world (factual beliefs) and later form “the religious credence that that had been God’s handiwork” (87). He also notes that people still continue nonreligious activities even when praying for those same things, which is likewise ...
The day draws near when you will be cast into the place prepared for those who follow God’s enemy. You stand against the Almighty – do you expect to win this battle? I have seen your end. You’ve already lost. You will gain authority in this fallen world for a short time – and...
2. Each of the pools had steps on one side only. Next to these large water reservoirs was a temple dedicated to Asclepius, the Roman snake god of healing. Around this small building were five sacred baths where sick people hoped to be healed. Jesus healed the paralytic man in this ...
tapanus’version here, even while alludingtoExodus,gives it his own twist, andquiteastriking one. God never ordersamilitary expedition in the Bible, onlyre-monstrations with pharaoh. The warrior credentials of Moses take precedence inthis retelling.What came of the war disappeared from the record...
We, believers, are part of His body, not divided, not in groups opposing each other, but together. He wants us to live together in community to protect each other and build each other up. God created us for relationship with Him, first and foremost, and