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...
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep o...
3. Others, again, have taken the word as a pealpal form of the Arabic verb עזל, to remove, formed by modification from עֲזִלזִל, so that the meaning comes to be for a complete removing or dismissal (Tholuck, Steudel, Winer, Bähr). Grammatically, no ...
During a 4th grade discussion of a book we’d read for class which took place in the rural south shortly after the Civil War, I wanted to know the meaning of the one word I hadn’t understood and blurted out “What does n*** mean?” I got some of dirty looks and someone told m...
— The time fixed for the celebration of Pentecost is the fiftieth day reckoning from "the morrow after the Sabbath" (מַמָּחַרִת הִשִּׁבָּת) of the Passover (Le 23:11,15-16.) The precise meaning, however, of the word שׁב...
Of course, Nimrod's other claim to fame was as a hunter, and so the word nimrod also very quickly came to be used of avid hunters. But how did we jump from hunting to fools? We're not entirely sure. Some etymologists ascribe the origin of the "fool" meaning to Bugs Bunny, who...
What does the Parable of the Boiling Pot mean? What is the theme of the Gospel of Matthew? What does the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard mean? What does the parable of The Sheep and the Goats mean? What is the meaning of the Book of Proverbs?
This is an obvious meaning of salt - that it is a flavor-enhancing agent to food. Now how does this relate to everyday life being that we are “salt of the earth?Most people assume salt adds flavor to food. On the contrary, what really happens is the releasing of flavor by breaking...
Before and while searching for Isaiah 2, the desire to just sing Hosanna came out. I hate to admit but I did not know the meaning. I did not look it up until after reading Isaiah 2 out loud. As I was reading I was singing Hosanna. ...
What's that got to do with the meaning of the Day of Unleavened Bread? Well it's got plenty to do with it. When you have God's Spirit and you have God passover your sins and you're putting leavening out of your life, you know you're gradually being changed from physical to spiri...