Thank you for your post, I came across it as I was searching the definition for abba. It all makes perfect sense, when Jesus used the term in the garden it was in total surrender of himself to death that the fathers holy will be done. In his nevertheless moment, he was saying I wil...
We do not say that we believe snow to be white, but that we know it is white. In the original structure of our mental constitution, a firm foundation has been laid for the perception of truth. We set out in our intellectual career with believing, and that, too, on the strongest of ...
This parable narrates how a group of kids “play make-believe on the playground” (1) and involves doll characters with powers, conflicts between those doll characters, an area of the playground designated “their special place to play” (2), character conflicts and events reflecting the kids...
A shrew is defined by Cambridge dictionary as a “a woman who is considered to be unpleasant and easily annoyed, and who argues a lot” and this is also the definition of a bitch in modern times. Most Christians today object to men ever calling a woman a bitch. But Christians of the ...
We first need a biblical definition of ‘death’. This requires forgetting our ‘modern’ definition. Death (biblically) means separation. (Reference). So what Adam ‘did’ caused us [man] to be separated... from God. That is, caused us [man] all to be ‘dead’. So vi...
Definition of Anarcho-Theocracy Prima facie Case for Anarcho-Theocracy Response to Objections Bibliography "For the Americans," Tocqueville found, "the ideas of Christianity and liberty are so completely mingled that it is almost impossible to get them to conceive of one without the other; it is ...
It is a matter of definition. The definition of “raining” would govern whether the statement was true or false. This is how extraordinarily fundamental the matter of “definition” is. This account also shows the absolute necessity of our being precise in our declarations. It is possible for...
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....
The Bible gives us the definition of selfishness in Philippians 2:4: “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” The key word in Philippians 2:4 is “also”. A person is not selfish for looking to meet their own needs and desires. A perso...
the definition given here.[3] Nevertheless, just as the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible, the idea of these terms is inherent in the whole Scriptures to an overwhelming degree. The meaning of missions is to send believers off to propagate their faith, ...