2.Being in keeping with the nature of the Bible, especially: a.Suggestive of the personages or times depicted in the Bible. b.Suggestive of the prose or narrative style of the King James Bible. 3.Very great in extent; enormous:a natural disaster of near biblical proportions. ...
This is clear from Peter’s own explanation of the scene to the apostles and the other brethren in Judea later (Acts 11:1-18). It is certainly the case that the creatures in the vision represent people. So, we know that the statement in 10:15 refers to people. Secondly, we know tha...
Please pardon my lack of blogging. I had some heavy preparation work for a seminar on “parenting adult children” and another on “suffering” recently, as well as working on several writing projects. I am hoping to get back into a better routine in the near future. . In the meantime, ...
Jesus took the full dose of suffering for sin on the cross so we wouldn’t have to. And He rejected the myrrh so we would be able to receive it.” “When in a garden relationship with God, humanity had no need of the Torah, for we had the Tree of Life. The Torah was the Tree...
The same explanation may perhaps apply to the non-appearance of Judah in the history. Simeon and Levi, as the next in succession to the first-born, take the task upon themselves. Though not named in the Hebrew text of the O.T. till 34:25, there can be little doubt that they were ...
Then, across that momentary ruin which Peter (as so often) becomes, the voice of the Master, turning to the crowd, generalizes the moral. All his followers must take up the cross. This avoidance of suffering, this self-preservation, is not what life is really about. Then, more definitely...
There can be no other explanation!How important is this? The Adam Clark Commentary put the problem in its proper perspective in the words that if this position of Paul is true, then "the whole Christian system is vain and baseless". Why? Because the whole focus of our present-day ideas ...
Paul’s point here is not merely the intimacy of being God’s child; it’s that, but it’s also embedded in an impetus—should I say an imperative—to obey, to “put to death the misdeeds of the body.” Notably, the context of Abba in Romans 8 is aboutobedience in suffering, just...
suffering or predation in God’s very good creation prior to the fall. As the writer of Hebrews tells us “Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness”. Has there been millions of years of needless suffering, bloodshed, and death in a world that God called very good as Walton...
To Know and Be Known: An Intimacy-Based Explanation for the Gender Gap in Biblical Literalism Christianity by examining in a national sample (Baylor Religion Survey 2010) a particularly robust measure of religiosity: biblical literalism. Women are more... VPCM Kent - 《Journal for the Scientific...