The Greek word is “hilasterion” which means appeasing or expiating. Another meaning for the word propitiation can also be mercy-seat. Paul when writing to the Romans expounded on why the wrath of God would fall on all of mankind who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.He also makes th...
For the Greek word μορφωθῇ translated “is formed,” Harper gives the meaning as “to give shape to, mould, fashion, (Gal. 4:19)” (p. 273). Thus, Paul is figuratively expressing the idea that he is in spiritual labor until Christ is formed or moulded or shaped in them ...
It is “we the people.” God, in His sovereignty, has given the citizens of the United States of America the ability to choose our own leaders. That does not mean that God chooses who our leaders will be. He allows them to be in office, because nothing happens that He does not allow...
being directly addressed 686 times. No biblical writer gives a more succinct argument for the centrality of love within the divine than the Apostle John when he states: “God is love” (1 Jn. 4:8,16
The principle of noncontradiction is often considered a priori, meaning it is not contingent on empirical observations of the external world. Instead, it is a foundational principle of logical reasoning itself. When we engage in rational discourse and argumentation, we assume the principle of noncon...
The result has been almost continuous social and political turmoil. This thinking has also led to the idea that the decisions of judges regarding the meaning of state and national constitutions carry more weight and importance than the actual words of these constitutions. In other words, the ...
though the words of the prophets are regarded as necessary to clarify the meaning of the events. Since the Hebrew term for “word” (davar) signifies also “deed” or “thing,” there is no clear line of demarcation between word-revelation and deed-revelation in theHebrew Bible. The biblic...
3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning. 4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts...
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...
Its development is parallel with that of the Hebrew people, and its meaning at any period may be taken as significant of their relative position with regard to the surrounding nations. 1. While as yet the Jewish nation had no political existence, gôyim denoted generally the nations of the ...