To a Jewish audience, only a pile of rejected garbage would make a trip to Gehenna, and a resurrection from that place would have proved a hitherto unknown usefulness of something unexpectedly fire-proof: "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone" (Psalm 118:22...
Its materials were recycled and Pilate's prideful plaque found its final resting place in the 4th century as part of a set of stairs towards the public tribune of a local theatre, face down and chiseled to size, in precise reversal of the famous capstone mentioned in Psalm 118:2. It's ...
Psalm 118:5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. 2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: He delivered me, because He delighted in me. Genesis 26:22 He moved from there and dug another well, and they ...
“Please Lord, please save us. Please, Lord, please give us success”(Psalm 118:25). The Hebrew word, “hoshi’a na,” is translated in Greek as “(h)osanna.” In English, we known it as “hosanna.” The original intent of thescriptureis “Save!” It is viewed as a plea for ...
Deut 31:6 ; Psalm 118:6-7 13:5-6 These texts provide a basis for consideration of the remaining theological features of Hebrews. The Divine Nature and Appointment of the Son. In establishing Jesus' superiority to the angelic hosts his deity is clearly affirmed ( 1:1-4 ). Beginning ...
What I remember most was at testimony time she always sings her; sometimes it was a chant forms the psalm or just a well-known hymn. I have at least one of her hymns she wrote, and I put it to music. Lennie was a very small woman like her mother but very dark in complexion, ...
Alister McGrath Richard Dawkins (born 1941) The Selfish Gene (1976) The Extended Phenotype (1981) The Blind Watchmaker (1986) River out of Eden (1995) Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) A Devil’s Chaplain (2003) The Ancestor’s Tale (2004) Dawkins’ four ...
to fly, but their wings evolved as means to shield and protect their young and flight is a later achieved side-effect (Genesis 15:1, Psalm 91:4,Matthew 23:37). All these side-effects over time became primary and completely overwhelmed whatever they were a side-effect of (Psalm 118:22)...
Mankind fell when mankind began to judge and thus reject, because to God all things work together (Romans 8:28), and anyone who rejects anything, rejects something essential to their own completeness (Matthew 7:1-2, Psalm 118:22). To the pure all things are pure (Titus 1:15), which ...