new birth of freedomsacrificeGettysburg AddressThe Gettysburg Address contains no direct quotations from the Bible; nevertheless, it is replete with biblical phrases and themes. Lincoln, who had an intimate and thorough knowledge of the King James Bible, used the Bible in ways essential to the ...
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...
“Daddy” doesn’t have the bite ofAbba. It’s personal, which is part of the meaning, but that’s not the whole story. Abbadoesn’t mean “Daddy.” Abbadoesn’t mean “Dad.” Abbameans “Father, I will obey you.” Most people thinkAbbasimply means having an intimate relationship wi...
Nevertheless, just as the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible, the idea of these terms is inherent in the whole Scriptures to an overwhelming degree. The meaning of missions is to send believers off to propagate their faith, which is one of the major themes in the Word of God...
I drew this picture maybe two or three years ago. It deals with how the church sometimes translated the Bible in such a way that the (egalitarian) meaning of the text does not come through, and then church members pointed to those translations to “prove” their point. ...
Many times God is delaying a blessing because we are not following the biblical path that leads to that blessing. It’s so easy to try to claim the promises of God while forgetting theprecepts of God– meaning, God’s blessings are always surrounded by God’s commands. If we want ...
However, the places themselves; their names, their climates, their distinct features, add an extra layer of meaning to the stories we thought we knew. Dr Jonathan Lipnick, the creator of this course, is a licensed Israeli tour guide. As someone who actually lives in and travels throughout ...
We would be recognized by some of these generic termsas we understand their meaning to be Scripturally founded: We are: ‘Trinitarian’ in our Theology (We acceptthatYHWH(the Godhead) has three distinguished functionary persons: Father, Word- Son and Spirit all of which are Eternal.) ...
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 ...
From “lacking” to “beingteleios[complete/perfect].” Matthew’s modifications to the Markan tradition are most interesting; but they nevertheless go hand-and-hand with Matthew’s larger emphasis that righteousness is the sole requirement to inherit eternal life:“Unless your righteousness excels ...