When townspeople believed that someone had become a vampire, they would exhume the corpse and try to get rid of the evil spirit. They might try an exorcism ritual, but more often they would destroy the body. This might entail cremation, decapitation or driving a wooden stake through the ...
The Bible does not mention how tall Jesus was, as height is not something the Bible routinely discusses. However, in Isaiah 53:2, we learn a little about his physical appearance, “For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately ...
Jeremiah 23:1-3 Expanded Bible The Evil Leaders of Judah 23 “·How terrible it will be for [Woe to]·those [L the shepherds; C the leaders of Judah] who are scattering and destroying ·my people [L the sheep of my pasture],” says the Lord. 2 They are ·responsible for...
Expanded Bible 27 “How long will these evil ·people [community; congregation; assembly]·complain [grumble] about me? I have heard the ·complaining [grumbling] of these ·Israelites [L sons/T children of Israel]. 28 So tell them, ‘This is ·what the Lord says [L the ...
“For My people are ignorant fools, They know Me not; They are simpleminded children And have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”Amplified Bible“For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the LORD to Jeremiah]; “They do not know Me;...
Another counselor to the King was Gandalf, who broke the evil spell and woke up the king up. KingThéodendramatically came to his senses and took authority. This scene demonstrates two different kinds of pastors: one kind of pastor...
Do not take vengeance on him or her– Rom 12:18-21 – be ready to help him, instead – it is too easy to be overcome of evil and to escalate the conflict into a war of mutual retaliations – rock fights are not conducive to reconciliation. ...
I have found that to be true each year as I’ve gone back through the Bible. Sometimes I find myself feeling as if a passage just appeared there for the first time. I’m reminded that no matter how many times we read through the Bible, we have only scratched the surface. I hope ...
Does it serve anyone for me to live in remorse and regret? Nope. Not now, not ever. Never. Nobody had a perfect childhood – at least nobody in my generational gene pool. We all did the best we could with what we had to work with at the time. That is as true today as it ...
The way that you describe debt and the way that Western society thinks about debt with respect to the Bronze Age, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, in the aftermath of the agricultural revolution, and the way that Greco-Roman society and Christianity dealt with those ideas was, well, it was...