In the Synoptic Gospels, the most common term for our Lord's miracles is δυνάμεις, powers. Full of meaning as is the word, it nevertheless is not one easy to adapt to the idiom of our language, and thus in the Gospels it is usually translated "mighty works" (Mt 11:20...
Portrait of Isaac Newton, cornerstone of the scientific revolution, based his research on the scientific authority of the Bible. Biblical scientific foreknowledge is the assertion that the Bible possessed scientific knowledge beyond that which is believed to exist at the time the Bible was written. ...
Such Christians use nice clothing, verse copy-pasting and the phrase “born again” in ignorance as a mask and fill in for actually loving and obeying God and in place of desiring to truly understand his word, that includes the meaning of “born again”, which they seem to think is merel...
when the advocates of instrumental music betake themselves to the original text of Scripture, and profess to find an unanswerable argument for the organ in the meaning of this and that Hebrew and Greek word, it becomes absolutely necessary to follow them there, and to shew that their philologica...
According to Grice's theory, conversational implicature occurs when the presumption that an utterance conforms to the cooperative principle and its maxims requires the hearer to infer an implicit meaning. For example, if B believed that the garage is closed or out of petrol, her utterance would ...