“Ministry” is from the Greek word diakoneo, meaning “to serve.” Jesus ministered to thousands upon thousands of people during His time here on earth. John 21 tells us that if all the things Jesus did were all written down, the entire world could not contain the books that would be...
Nay, it is future also in its fullness, even to the saints at rest; for in the passage just quoted it is plainly intimated that the entire fulfillment will not be till "he that shall come" comes; i.e. till the second advent. The redeemed whose probation on earth is over are indeed...
Marcion ... even went so far as to rewrite Matthew 5:17, where Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, “Think not that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them.” Marcion turned it around and said that Jesus’ actual ...
Today makes it 8 years, I encountered an amazing individual; funny, charming, intelligent and creative. He’s become one of the reasons to encourage me to keep going on even when the storms are at their worst. When the little glimmer of the skies are completely eclipsed by the darkness of...
Are you looking for data about the entire economy like a total GDP or about the roman state budget? Anyway thay had no banks then. Which makes me wonder - at risk of broadening the topic, where did they store all their cash? Did the state have treasuries? What kind of safeguards were...
Island on the East African coast by late August might be stuck until next Spring for the monsoon winds to make the Indian Ocean crossing. Then they would have to wait in India until the Winter to begin their return…any delay could end up adding an entire extra year to a s...
Both Isaac and Jesus are long-awaited “beloved sons” who are born in miraculous circumstances (Gen. 22:1 ;Matt. 3:17 ). Both sons carry the wood that is to be the instrument of their deaths on their backs (Gen. 22:6 ;John 19:17 ...
Carry-over effects of prolonged larval life persisted through five juvenile stages. Detrimental effects varied among offspring produced by different mothers. Variability in phenotypic effects may relate to maternal and/or genetic factors.doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2012.11.017Darlan de Jesus de Brito Sirnith...
The fundamentalist Christian website www.jesus-is-savior.com contains a particularly misleading, fallacious, and deliberately dishonest critique of H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy, and the Theosophical Movement. The article in question is titled "Theosophy is
Some have even speculated that the animal was a lamb, thereby presenting a prophetical picture of Jesus, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 5:6; 13:8). Furthermore, some have argued that in this death of the animal, God was teaching Adam and Eve the...