Christians will not find the word “suicide” in Scripture, but the fact of suicide is seen throughout Scripture as an evidence of the struggle some have with the effects of mankind’s fallen nature. The Bible teaches that Satan, the father of lies, comes to steal, kill, and destroy God...
In other words, when you get right with God and are filled with the Holy Spirit, He will simply shine through you. God is the light that shines within and through His church as the light of the world. The same word the Bible uses for light in Matthew 5 to describe Christ’s Chu...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in... The Power of Listening to the Bible Together - Tom Cole Making It Work Podcast Groups reading Scripture out loud meet all over the world, from tech workers in Seattle to ...
The Bible clearly endorses pain relief for people who are close to death: “Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.” Proverbs 31:6 ESV Sometimes administering pain relief may result in shortening life. If the aim was to alleviate pain, then...
1. To Justify the Idea of a Spiritual Spouse in the Bible, One Must Make Large Hermeneutical Jumps That Are Very Weak and Unwise Hermeneutics is just a big word seminarians use to mean “the method of interpreting Scripture.” A good hermeneutical framework includes some really important princ...
The later Protestant Church accepted this determination. Thus, the institutional church has assessed that anyone who does not believe Jesus is God is not a Christian. But this was not the case with the apostolic church of the first century CE. The Book of Acts reveals that the earliest ...
The Bible has a lot to say on meditation and it gives us clear instruction on how we should take part in the growing trend of mindfulness. Meditation is a good practice that is encouraged in the Old and New Testament alike, however Christians should be s
There is proof for Purgatory in the Bible. It’s found in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 15. Let’s examine this Biblical proof for Purgatory. I will use the 1611 King James Version of the Bible, a famous Protestant translation.
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