By no means should we count the teachings in Leviticus as obsolete – they are the word of God and had meaning then and have meaning to us today. We should remember that Jesus said He came to uphold the law and teachings of God, not make them obsolete. As long as we as believers to...
It seems that the men of my generation are simply not interested in being leaders, providers and protectors for women and having stay at home wives.” This was part of an email I recently received from a 20-year-old young woman. Here is more of her story: “I have been raised in a...
Prior efforts to direct the branched pathway towards selectin-binding oligosaccharides by amplifying enzymes in this branch of the network have had limited success, suggesting that metabolic engineering to simultaneously inhibit the compe...
In some Indian (not Christian) cultures, wearing shoes in a dream implies that you are determined to progress and achieve success no matter what obstacles lie along your path. It is seen as an indication of personal growth and development - that you have the confidence to take initiative desp...
(adding incentives to trade the sacred for the utilitarian triggers more of an outrage response); 3) insensitivity to the probability of success (“sacred values do not diminish when someone learns actions are less likely to succeed” [187]); 4) no temporal discounting (sacred value placed ...
The translation by John and William Langhorne, an insipid and tasteless version, has the merit of being tolerably correct in rendering the meaning of the original. The last and best English translation is that of professor Long, which however only includes the lives of those Romans who were ...
Some Christians, unwilling to accept the Biblical teaching that a husband is the master and owner of his wife, have tried to claim that since “ish”(meaning man) is used more often than “baal” to refer to a woman’s husband that this is how God wants a wife to see her husband, ...
This, the probable meaning of our term, suits very well with the idea of divination, though it ill accords with the A.V., which, in all the eight passages in Daniel where it is found, renders it astrologers. Divination by the stars is not implied in the original. The Sept. in every...
success. But before we look at these, I want you to think about the issue of success. You’ll discover that it is one of those concepts that is hard to define. A lot of people would equate success with the so-called For your free subscription to Veritas, visit .dts.edu or call ...
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. From the biblical perspective, this missiological expression could refer to both missionary endeavor in another geographical region or to another cultural group. The ...