have been recording fact, even though the authors may have been writing within a mythological or metaphorical genre and didn't intend for their stories to be taken literally. Ample evidence supports the theory that even the author of Genesis did not think God really created the world in six ...
He will surely show you favor at the sound of your cry for help.—Isa. 30:19. Isaiah assures us that Jehovah will listen attentively when we cry out to Him and will respond quickly to our supplications. Isaiah adds: “He will answer you as soon as he hears it.” These reassuring...
I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. ... If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.[Voltaire] ...
but here signifieth that part of the spoils which, according to the custom of war in most nations, after the victory, were offered to God as his part, whether they did consist of persons or things: the tenth part of these were given by him to, Melchisedec, as the greatest priest of...
And again [did He ever say to the angels], “I shall be a Father to HimAnd He shall be a Son to Me”?6 [c]And when He again brings the firstborn [highest-ranking Son] into the world, He says, “And all the angels of God are to worship Him.”7...
No doubt you’ve seen a movie or two with at least one desert scene, in which the protagonists must withstand brutal heat and scarcity of water. (DidLawrence of Arabia,Flight of the Phoenix,orThe Way Backcome to mind?) Some of us have even visited a desert—perhaps the Great Basin or...
Did you know Edit Trivia This movie is made of episodes of the mini-series The Bible (2013). Goofs When Jesus is in the Synagogue Friday night, the cantor is chanting the contemporary Friday night prayer, "Lecha Dodi." This prayer was composed in the 16th century by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi...
Now the question becomes: Will we take God at his word and act upon it? Hebrews 11 gives us a lineup of faith-stars who did just that–based their actions on faith, not feelings. By faithNoah built an ark (v. 7). He didn’t allow feelings of inadequacy to stop him. ...
Jesus hung on the cross alone. When we are on our cross, we are alone as well. It is only then when we understand how much pain he was in. And it wasn’t just the physical pain, it is the fact that nobody cared. – Just a few people at the foot of the cross. There would ...
Shekhinah is a uniquely Jewish concept for the glorious presence of God in the Hebrew Scriptures, even though the word itself is not found there.