MANY Bible students have attempted to prove that when Jesus said,“It is easier for a camel to go through theeye of a needle,than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven,”the phraseeye ofa needlereferred to the small gate that was opened in the great gate of an Oriental city...
You might be surprised at this, but these same idioms appear elsewhere in the Scriptures where they clearly refer to generosity or stinginess. (See Matt 20:15; Proverbs 22:9, 28:22) The subject of money is also prominent in surrounding passages in this sermon. Why Your “Eye” is Critic...
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 哥林多前书 2:9 — New Century Version (NCV) 9 But as it is written in the Scriptures: “No one has ever seen this, and no one has ever heard about it. No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who ...
Oji Haynes, Scriptures, 2024, String lights, cement, inkjet photo, diamond dust, and mixed media on fabric couch. Seen in After Hours, July 17, 2024.Tucked nicely into a corner at the far end of a large gallery, his piece, Scriptures, 2024, couldn’t be more different, yet similar, ...
The difficulty for the rich to enter the kingdom is echoed in other scriptures, such as 1 Timothy 6:9-10, which warns of the dangers of wealth leading to spiritual ruin. This teaching calls for a heart posture of humility and dependence on God rather than material riches. Persons / ...
Other scriptures state that the Arab nations will go down into the dust and will never again be known as a great nation. In some ways this has already come to pass. In traveling through many of the Arab countries, all that is visible to the eye is the barrenness of rocks and sand; ...
the clear center part where light, and therefore sight, enters. As an expression, it generally refers to something precious. In the Bible, "apple of the eye" is used by some translations of the original Holy Scriptures for two different Hebrew words, one meaninga reflection, the other meanin...
It is The Holy Spirit in a mothering form,but it also has to come across with direction. People Are Looking For Direction Today They need to see a course set out before them that has light and hope, and the wonderful woman of God, Deborah in the scriptures, had a journey, and a sto...
The take-away from their exchange, in my opinion, is simply that systematizing the Bible into a complete set of firm answers and airtight conclusions is not possible. But some people can only have a Bible if they have an infallible interpretation of it, too. ...
the translation of the Bible and of Shakespeare (but not of, say, Homer, Cervantes, Racine, or Joyce) must have to do more with the unique cultural functions Shakespeare and the Scriptures have fulfilled through the centuries than with any concern for the intrinsic difficulties involved in trans...