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...
606 Spiritual Meaning 606 Angel Number: Love 606 Angel Number Twin Flame Why do I keep seeing 606? Biblical Meaning of 606 606 Numerology 606 Repeating 606 Angel Number Angel Number 606 breaks down into two 6s and one 0. Six relates to matters of home, family, and domestic conce...
I. God, who made all things, exists and He alone, as the creator of all things, 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 th...
To pick up on Berman’s use of Lewis Caroll, the rabbinic method of meaning-making is similar to Humpy Dumpty, who declaims: “‘When I use a word … it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’” I, as an observant Jew, am not deriding the rabbis, whose ...
Christ is the Lord of the sabbath. The simple, clear and obvious meaning of this is that He who is the Christ of God instituted the church, fulfilled the sabbath, dispensed with the sabbath, and abrogated the sabbath, in exactly the same way and to exactly the same degree as he did al...
It was a strange adaptation of Anacreontic meter to fit it to philosophical and theological songs. Yet it may well be asked what meaning should be attached to the claim of Synesius, in the opening of the seventh hymn, to have been the first to tune his lyre in honor of Jesus. ...
Such an explanation, however, reaches but a little way towards drawing out the meaning of the predictions in question, for even if they include that which it refers to (as is not likely from the analogy of our Lord's own prophetic language), they yet undoubtedly look beyond it, and ...
–Interpretation: Emphasis on grammatical-historical exegesis, focusing on the original meaning of texts based on their historical and literary contexts². –Role of Preaching and Sacraments: Preaching and sacraments are viewed as means of grace, grounded in Scriptural commands and ordinances, administe...
The meaning of the Hebrew word (*H7812 shachah) to bow down, is to depress, prostrate oneself (in homage to royalty or God), to bow oneself down, to humbly beseech, worship or to do obeisance.7 This word is used as indicated in verses 7, 9 & 10 above, in reference not only to...
If, however, the term contingent in this controversy has any definite meaning at all, as applied to the moral actions of men, it must mean their freedom, and stands opposed, not to certainty, but to necessity. A free action is a voluntary one; and an action which results from the ...