As to (1), it may be argued that the evangelist himself, writing long after Pentecost, and recording sayings taught among Christians only alter Pentecost, would naturally wish his words to be understood in a Christian sense; and hence that Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον here has at least ...
I tell Rogan that the challenge is not how long ago an event happened in history, it’s the distance between the source recording the event and when the original event happened. They’re two different things. Some events that are said to have happened recently in the past are actually doub...
We should lay down no rules as to how long we will pray, or as to what we shall pray about, but be ready to wait upon God for a short time or a long time as He may lead, and to be led out in one direction or another as He may see fit. ...
7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth (of praying with faith actions continually with freque...
May 20: Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (Lundi de Pentecôte) A Christian festival that celebrates the descent of the Holy Ghost upon Jesus’ disciples, as described in the New Testament. It comes the day after Whit Sunday. July 14: France’s national day (Fête Nationale, orle quato...
All the following history of mankind, after the Resurrection and Ascension of the Lord, is the ~actualization~ of the salvation which has been accomplished: the reception and assimilation of it by the faithful. The ~culmination~ of the great work of salvation is bound up with the end of ...
And yet what was their response when they heard the stone had been rolled back somehow? Not to seek out Jesus in some way or find out for themselves about the veracity of His Resurrection. No, it was to bribe those guards tasked with guarding the sealed tomb to say that Jesus’ ...
... the Bible tells us to PROVE all things (Armstrong HW. The RESURRECTION was NOT on Sunday. 1952).Which of course, it does as the Apostle Paul wrote:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV)....