Allegoricalinterpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method (exegesis) that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the ...
Most of my family is Roman Catholic and my distant relative, Raffaello Delle Nocche, is even up for sainthood. I feel the most accurate religion that I fall into is agnosticism. I am not really sure if God is real or not, but I do believe that he could be. I have experienced some...
It is through the use of the seven day creation week, determined by the movement of the earth and moon as they circle the sun that proves the Bible as God’s word. This movement that God has given to us is His giant clock in the sky. ...
Now long before I became interested in theology I had met this kind of theory elsewhere. The tradition of Jowett still dominated the study of ancient philosophy when I was reading Greats. One was brought up to believer that the real meaning of Plato had been misunderstood by Aristotle and ...
The scholar of midrash, Isaac Heinemann (1876-1957), brilliantly called their method of resolution “creative philology,” where words of the Torah, as divine speech, need not have their obvious and usual meaning—God’s use of language is privileged, not confined to human norms. Thus, ...
As an evangelist myself, I want to preach a message that is accurate. The character of God is at stake. Yes, God is holy! Yes, God will judge sin! (If you are not a believer I urge you to come to Jesus (Yeshua)). However, this topic is very important and the wrong answer can...
First, note that the Old Testament mentions Satan, but never mentions “devil” or “devils”, though there are a few mentions of “demons” in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Psalms. But all three mentions of demons seem to treat “demon” as meaning “idol” or “false god” – they’re...
Measurement, as it relates to a biblical view, can have the same meaning as one measuring their sizing purposes. However, the bible focuses on measurement from a point of view of one being measured through integrity. "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity...
they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” P98-99 Next come the Skinnerian creatures, who have, in addition to their hard-wired dispositions, the key disposition to adjust their behavior in reaction to ‘reinforcements’; they ...
Name to us. Some 6,828 times the one and only God of the Bible is called Yahweh. This number does not include the 49 occurrences of “Yah” (a shortened version, much like Greg is short for Gregory) nor the many expressions of “Hallelujah” (or Hallelu-Yah) meaning ‘praise Yah’....