Negative Examples1. Saul's Disobedience and Pride: King Saul's reign is marked by disobedience and pride, leading to his downfall. His failure to fully obey God's commands, as seen in 1 Samuel 15:22-23 , serves as a warning against the dangers of pride and partial obedience: "But ...
for disobedience (De 28:28; Le 26:16; Zep 1:17). Blindness wilfully inflicted for political or other purposes was common in the East, and is alluded to in Scripture (1Sa 11:2; Jer 22:12). That calamities are always the offspring of crime is a prejudice which the depraved nature ...
using imprecatory Psalms, how the demonic affects Christians, and how and when to practice civil disobedience. While Saul models how to be the impressive Christian-on-your-own-terms that God rejects, David shows us to live life — all of it — as a very-human man after God's own heart...
using imprecatory Psalms, how the demonic affects Christians, and how and when to practice civil disobedience. While Saul models how to be the impressive Christian-on-your-own-terms that God rejects, David shows us to live life — all of it — as a very-human man after God's own heart...
using imprecatory Psalms, how the demonic affects Christians, and how and when to practice civil disobedience. While Saul models how to be the impressive Christian-on-your-own-terms that God rejects, David shows us to live life — all of it — as a very-human man after God's own heart...
using imprecatory Psalms, how the demonic affects Christians, and how and when to practice civil disobedience. While Saul models how to be the impressive Christian-on-your-own-terms that God rejects, David shows us to live life — all of it — as a very-human man after God's own heart...
Perhaps at first glance it seems that the Lord was overwhelmed and surprised by Saul’s disobedience, as if man had control over God’s choices. This kind of regret is calledanthropomorphism, and here the wordregretis used only for God to explain himself to man in human terms so we can ...
There is, to be sure, in the Koran, as in the Old Testament, the narrative of the first human couple residing in paradise, of their disobedience against God's interdiction, and of their expulsion from it; however, when Adam repented of his sin, God pardoned him, and said to him: "...
Why is this bit of history important? It is because the Israelites in the wilderness areourexample today! The Congregation in the wilderness is prophetic of the Congregation of Believers today, and they are examples for us today, in every way (1Corinthians 10:11). The Holy Spirit is desirin...
Eve was deceived by the serpent and ate fruit from tree of the knowledge of “good and evil” and convinced Adam to eat the fruit as well in disobedience of God’s command. Their disobedience brought sin to the world. After they confessed their sin, God punished each in a way that ...