Second, that argument is, I assume, based on Romans 13. That passage deals with being subject to rulers—including the often-overlooked instruction to pay taxes to whom taxes are due. But it begins with this verse: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is n...
Turning northwards, still continuing within the cloisters, we come first to an open passage leading outwards, then to the chapter-house or its vestibule; then, after another open passage, to the south transept of the church. Immediately before us is an entrance into the church, and another ...
China’s Marxist war against humanity is fought with patience and the understanding that victory can be theirs through either internal of external actions exerted against their foes. Marxists around the world view the United States as their greatest foe. Joseph Stalin said, America is like a heal...
Much controversy arose also concerning the dogma of divine foreordination, and both contending parties found no difficulty in bringing proof from the Koran, which is especially rich in contradictions on this point. In one passage it reads: "To him who wants this world we give directly according ...
I touched on it in an older post which you can findHEREbut I’m going to make it clear once again. When I say fundamentalist, I mean someone who is willing to abrogate one passage of clear scripture with another. Doing so places the fundamentalist as the authority over interpretation of ...
Why? Because she already knows that I do by my patience with her, my understanding with her, and my dutifulness in giving her all my resources for her benefit. Likewise, my wife does not tell me she loves me either, but I have never once been bothered by that because she does much ...
It is this last command on the manner in which we should “do everything” that we will focus.The context of the passage is that of making certain that we do not cause a fellow believer to stumble into sin by “eating or drinking” in a way that is seen to be idolatrous, which mi...
(Revelation 16:2) This is while they are on the earth.Additionally the very next verse states "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" (Revelation 14:12). Why is this important? Because "keeping" is in the very ...
1.The virtue of patience. The Philistines carried their envy into action. They stopped up the wells which he had inherited from his father (ver. 15). But he met all this envy by patience. When persecuted in one place he fled to another. He removed from well to well (vers. 18-22)....
2. Literary interpretation deals on the level of the passage. 3. Literary interpretation deals with: a) The development of the whole text to understand how it is put together rather than just verse-by-verse. b) Rhetoric, which is the study of effective communications and persuasion. c) ...