The Christian world is also one that was created in 6 days with Earth at its center, a world where Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis have no place in history, where dead people rose out of their graves, walked about the city and conversed with the living, a place where demon...
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,Webster's Bible TranslationAnd if thy hand causeth thee to fall ...
7 His mouth is full of cursing, deception, and oppression.Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.8 He waits in ambush in the villages.From his hiding places he kills innocent people.His eyes are on the lookout for victims.9 He lies in his hiding place like a lion in ...
“Even a murderer may worship with a true heart, and the heretic, however misguided, acknowledges the gods’ primacy. Your sin is neglect – a murder of the spirit and a heresy against the living and the dead. There can be no harvest for one who does not sow.” It seemed to him tha...
His life is given to be manifest in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 4:11. Just as the sap flows through the vine to the farthest branches, and just as the life of Christ went into the poor, diseased woman, to make her perfectly well, so the sinless, endless, inexhaustible life of ...
Therefore, living the Kingdom in the here and now involves not only promises of future blessings but also naming and calling out the sources of opposition – cursings alongside blessings. Luke’s Jesus shouts out a stinging rebuke to those who through the self-protective interests of wealth ...
That is cursing our daughters. We are giving them a fear of becoming women. We are also telling them that God has made something horrible. That God is not good. How often do us men say nothing to our sons about nocturnal emissions? How often do we leave them confused and feeling ashame...
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” When I first read the Bible in 2019, there were verses that put the...
Beni looks up at the stars, then angrily KICKS the sand CURSING. The FLAMING barge drifts off, slowly sinking ... BEDOUIN TRADING POST - DAY O'Connell barters in ARABIC with a CAMEL TRADER at a trading post. Jonathan forks over some cash. The Trader hands them the reins of four ugly...
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it—God is love. What we all think; reported inBartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning,Paracelsus: “God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that”. ...