He was describing His suffering “as an offering for sin.” They were interested in their own greatness, even at the cost of affliction. Jesus, however, was willing to undergo His
The Bible emphasizes that faith is the sole condition for receiving eternal life, as Scripture reveals, “everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins” (Acts 19:43), and “whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The simplicity of salvati...
While all Christians are called to a righteous lifestyle, the Bible reveals that some acts of righteousness carry more weight than others in terms of significance and impact on others. For example, when King Saul disobeyed God by sparing King Agag and the best of the livestock after a battle...
I shared some of the things I had learned from the Bible with my sweet mom and grandmother. The passages on the state of the dead, the second coming, and the resurrection were fresh and new to them.
There are also many ways He was an example to us where the Bible doesn’t use that word. For instance, as He resisted Satan with the Word of God, He showed us how to do the same. (Matthew 4). However, looking to Jesus as an example naturally leads to this thought:He is God. ...
So much of 2 Corinthians is about Paul defining his identity, his way of life, and his manner of ministry — with the ultimate goal of defining all of these things on behalf of believers and their lives. We will see that he does that while he, at the same time, is describing a stan...
I see that public education facilities will punish and suspend you for doing the right thing. Jesus did the right thing and sustained all the blows that were meant for us. Another way of describing this is to say that He redeemed us from sin – it didn’t matter how many or the manner...
The contents of the codex are more diverse than the traditions related to the Apocalypse collected in the Scholia, but the parallel provides a helpful analogy for describing the composition of the Scholia.52Second, the textual features of Revelation are selectively addressed in the Scholia. A key...
“Our Lord, whose precepts and admonitions we ought to observe, describing the honour of a bishop and the order of His Church, speaks in the Gospel, and says to Peter: ‘I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my Church; and the gates of hell shall ...