It is inherent in the nature of the athlete that excels, to continue to strive for the next level; to run faster, lift more, throw farther, and jump higher. There never comes a point at which they say, “It is enough.” There were a particular group of people in scripture who also...
That’s not to say that Sacred Scripture is without value—it is, indeed, a treasure trove of truth and wisdom. What is needed is a basic revision of our biblical interpretations—reading the Bible as it stands, full of metaphor and adaptation of its story lines, and not as literal and...
This part of the review will highlight four of them: Carson’s Introduction, Dempster’s essay on The Old Testament Canon, Waltke’s essay on Myth, History and the Bible, and Birkett’s essay on Science and Scripture. We will begin with Steven G. Dempster’s chapter, “The Old Testament...
one of the Unification Church’s major holy days. My wife found a suitable quote about parents from the Quran (in World Scripture, a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts) and wrote it on the chalkboard in our dining room:
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one...
that through those feelings she would come to grow her faith and maybe understanding of why this is happening. She still is afraid to leave me for long, but she’s asking great questions, reading her Bible, coloring Scripture, and she is talking. This girl asks tons of questions. She alw...
How dare you quote scripture over a TV channel.. Simon Jester October 26, 2021 at 9:16 PM The Bible also says that touching the skin of a dead pig makes you unclean (Leviticus 11:7-8), so I assume we also don’t need any football on television? Or are you just a hypoc...