The Flight. - Through some angry remarks of Laban's sons with reference to his growing wealth, and the evident change in the feelings of Laban himself towards him (Genesis 31:1,Genesis 31:2), Jacob was inwardly prepared for the termination of his present connection with Laban; and at the...
given you for repentance, like the years when “the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah” (Genesis 6:3;1Peter 3:20), or the time during which God bore with Canaan, “till the iniquity of the Amorite” was “full” (Genesis 15:16). ...
That's what happened to Adam and Eve inParadise (cf. Genesis 3).That is why only unbelief is called sin by Christ, as he says inJohn, chapter 16, "The Spirit will punish the world because ofsin, because it does not believe in me." Furthermore, before goodor bad works happen, ...
On January 23, 2025 By Bill Smith In Culture, History, Theology Like The Gospel of John: Christ the Creator John’s Gospel opens with the unmistakable echo of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning … God.” He fills that out a bit more than Moses, but there is no doubt that John intend...
d. According to its kind: This phrase appears ten times in Genesis chapter 1. It means God allows variation within a kind, but something of one kind will never develop into something of another kind. e. And God saw that it was good: God knows what is good. He is not some vague mor...
(Genesis 39:9, BSB). It’s a strange reply, especially to an Egyptian woman who might have thought: “God? Which god are you talking about?” Yet Joseph apparently had been taught and believed that none of us are ever really alone. God is always there, and God always sees. “The ...
It’s a battle between God’s Word and man’s word. It began when the devil came to Eve and asked, “Did God actually say?” (Genesis 3:1). As I’ve shown, the basic attack in this battle is on the authority of the Word of God. The nature of the attack has never changed, ...
He even squeezes angels in somewhere between women and Christ (v10), but it is not clear if he means that angels and men are sort of on the same rung. If so, then it might be confirmed by Genesis 32:25, where the angel can't win from Jacob, and in Revelation 22:9, in which...
The third issue concerns reductionism (including brain reductionism) and opportunities to deduce various phenomena of development (mental development, actual genesis of creative thinking, etc.) from the new logical foundation for psychology built by Mammen....
Genesis 3,nahash, but it is the same word,tannin, used in Exodus 7:9 and 12 when God instructs Moses to throw Aaron’s staff on the ground for it to become a serpent. This differs from the word used in Exodus 4 when God instructs Moses to throw his staff on the ground for the...