don't realize that the question says more about them than anything else. Skipping all the obvious, we'll have a look at what the Bible has to say about gender and its transcendence. ... continue reading → Words • Blood and the color red in the Bible Red is the color of dawn ...
Ronald Holmes mentions that the Welsh Bible, which first appeared in 1567, held few of the same misconceptions, probably because of the lack of suitable Welsh words. The Witch of Endor is presented there in the correct light, simply as a medium. Where it cannot be specific, the wordgwrach...
Reuben – Name meaning “behold a son,” from the Hebrew words “ra’a” (to see) and “ben” (son). He’s the firstborn son of Jacob and Leah, and the eldest of the patriarchs of the 12 tribes of Israel. Rufus – Red-haired ...
In other words, their self-condemnatory judgment was not intentional, but it was real. So, notice the combination of concepts. First, the Jews intentionally and actually thrust the word of God from them. Second, they did that because they did not believe it to be the word of God. ...
Here are some challenging words: . Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrathof God, for it is wri...
But the true explanation is given by one of his own people — possibly one of those who had witnessed the cure wrought on Naaman, and could conceive no power too great to ascribe to so gifted a person: "Elisha, the prophet in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou ...
Maybe that’s why Gideon felt so led to build an altar to the Lord and call it, “The Lord is Peace.” In times of greatest darkness, he had seen how true this was. The peace of God often doesn’t make sense to a world that would tell us to hurry and worry. A world that ...
A lot of the Old Testament's length is because of the use of word pictures (word pictures are words that access the five senses to engage the intellect and the emotions (or experiential realm)). Thus, much of the length of the Old Testament is because the summary statement does not ...
“And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace!” (Luke 19:41-42) In heaven, there will be no confusion about the Prince of Peace. Every saint, from every tribe and tongue wi...
In his words, “I have tried to accentuate the agency of vernacular authors and emphasized that they reacted to the cosmopolitan. Instead of merely receiving ideas, they actively appropriated them and manipulated them as acts of contestation” (225). Indeed, he is right to emphasize that ...