The meaning is clear. The garden was a temple for God. Like the temple, the garden was the joining together of God’s space and man’s space—the intersection of the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. For this reason, Isaiah called it ‘the garden of the Lord,’ and Ezekiel called...
Noun1.exegesis- an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) Christian Bible,Good Book,Holy Scripture,Holy Writ,Scripture,Bible,Word of God,Book,Word- the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" ...
Archaeologists with Azusa Pacific University in California have announced the discovery of a nearly 3,000-year-old broken jar bearing the inscription “lbnayo,” meaning “belonging to Benaiyo.” The name is the equivalent of the biblical Beniah, meaning “Yahweh has... ...
In this context, concepts of continuity and discontinuity tend to crop up. To the extent that God’s great future is not simply the outcome of the renewal of human life now taking place, we are to speak of discontinuity. But complete discontinuity is not considered possible. What can be ex...
The article presents biblical reflections on the right of ownership, the eighth commandment. The author asserts that a closer look at the legal statement itself suggests that there is a deeper meaning in the commandment than outright theft. It is noted that kidnapping and burglary are forbidden by...
Hedonism is an evil moral ethic. “Without hedonism, there would be no point or meaning to our moral decisions” (Joe Barnhart inThe Warren-Barnhart Debate on Christian Ethics versus Utilitarian Ethics, November 5, 1980, Denton, Texas). ...
Basil, bishop of Caesarea's nine homilies on six days of creation as told in GenesisAugustine's sustained interest in understanding beginning of Genesis correctlyPhiloponus' exploration of meaning of Genesis text - philologicalChristian biblical exegesis - function of clarifying obscure, difficult, ...
Of course, this does not make any sense, but this is what the guru, John Walton, would have us believe from p50 of his book The Lost World of Genesis, where he says: “the meaning of the repeated formula ‘it was good’, which I propose refers to functioning properly…functional readi...
36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”37And he said to him,“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.38This is the great and first commandment.39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as...
It is plain that the proposition, "Jesus is the Christ," when understood in the latitude of meaning which we have shown belongs to it, contains a complete summary of the truth respecting the divine method of salvation. To believe that proposition, rightly understood, is to believe the Gospel...