It is vital, then, that we have a genuine humility as Christians. We must recognize our fallibility, and constantly reassess what we believe." In other words, there are many well-meaning Christian parents who have put their children... SJ Brown - 《Aggressive》 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 Tou...
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...
interprets the meaning of things and events.Being created in the image of God, we know that we are dependent on God for the truth. As sinners we suppress this knowledge and reinterpret the universe on the basis that we give all things and events their meaning. Special revelation, which not...
The context or some other restrictive element will determine the meaning in which each word is used in any given passage, and this meaning is the sense of the word. The signification of the word is its possible meaning; the sense of a word is its actual meaning in any given context. A...
Mohammedanism called by its professors Islam, meaning "resignation" or "entire submission" (i.e. to the will of God), in accordance with the Koran, which, as we have already seen in the article under that heading, is the Bible of the Mohammedan, and in the days of the Prophet was ...
The answer is found in the definition of 'love', and that the fact that Biblical love is NOT a warm, gooey feeling inside, meaning that our feelings can align with true love, but it is not the foundation of it. Based on the above definitions of love, it is obvious that the Lord Go...
However practiced, asceticism is always meaningful, though the meaning depends on its social context: it may express the humility of a Hasmonean solider praying before battle, free the Platonist philosopher to attain union with the divine mind, or manifest the grace whereby Christians already live...
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). ...
[עֶבֶד, a more general term, Sept. παῖς], answering to our ministers, by the different titles of the chambers assigned to their use, the "sitting" of the servants meaning rather their abode, and the "attendance" of the ministers the ante-room in which they were ...
The Bible says that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). It uses love as one of its definitions of who God is. So, to understand true love, we must understand its very meaning is wrapped up in the person of God. To understand the scope and breadth of love, we can primarily talk about...