Before referencing his article, let me give a definition of “restoration.” This is the word used in your New Testament in Acts 3:21. The Greek word is apokathistami, and it means “to restore to its former state;…to be in its former state….” (Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of...
For me, it started with a childhood amidst alcoholism and violence that built a faulty definition of normal, and led to a lifetime of misconceptions about life in general and my worth in particular. Jesus whispered my name and I fell at His feet in my 20s, but I went on to spend dec...
Sin is a riddle, a mystery, a reality that eludes definition and comprehension. Perhaps we most often think of sin as wrongdoing or transgression of God's law. Sin includes a failure to do what is right. But sin also offends people; it is violence and lovelessness toward other people,...
“3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine,teachers of good things; 4That they may teach the young womento be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home...
⇒Definition of log(1.) John uses the term Logos without explanation, assuming that his readers know it to bear this sense. Accordingly, we find this conception of it not new with him, but a chief element in the development of the Old- Testament theology. In the Mosaic account, God's...
In general, he offers intriguing examples of play for the respective areas, but much of his discussion is rooted in his definition of what constitutes play and how to identify play (as he discusses in chapters 1 and 2). Thus, I would have liked a more thoughtful, philosophically rooted ...
Lev. 18:23b yields the parade example of "unnatural" female sexuality---a woman with a beast. Both "codes" treat male homosexuality as a particular species under the genus of incest and do not otherwise address homosexual behaviors. H nuances its definition of adultery by parsing it along ...
Sanctification, by definition, means to set something apart for a holy purpose: I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy (Leviticus 11:44). God makes us holy because of His holiness. Humans cannot make themselves holy due to their sin nature; only ...
The way we feel is not a definition as to who we are. Emotions are safe guards that brings to our attention the word or God. The word we know should set us free. The way we think in our hearts is who we are. Often being bound by the the word of God. Describe as a two edged...
This is the Biblical definition of what it means for a man to unconditionally love his wife. This is a tall order and each of us as men fail in this duty from time to time. I think as men often times we can be great at providing our wives with food, clothing, shelter and sex ...