The firstborn child of Adam and Eve killed the secondborn over a sacrifice, which was easy to resolve by following the instructions. We, in scripture, do not see the specifics of those instructions, but the understanding that it happened is there if you are willing to look for it. The ...
18–23 I Am for You 676 All Things New 450 Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain 448 At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing 463 Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain 448 Song of Moses 79 Song at the Sea 80 Song at the Sea 80 Shepherd of Souls 818 All Things New 450 Change Our Hearts...
I would have told you.I go to prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
Nevertheless, Jesus gave hope of eternal life with a real body, God has the best plan. “He doesn’t want any to perish…”2 Peter 3:9. Perish is the operative word here that is also included in that famous passage of John 3:16, where “perish” is the penalty for unbelief. One ...
2 John 8 – look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for. You can lose the grace you currently have. Jude 6 – even some of the angels, who beheld the face of God, fell. How much more could we fall? Gen. 3:6 – Adam and Eve, who were already living ...
“[B]elieve as we believe, we, who are, by succession from the blessed apostles, bishops; confess as we and they have confessed, the only Son of God, and thus shalt thou obtain forgiveness for thy numerous crimes.” Lucifer of Calaris, On St. Athanasius (A.D. 361). ...
thus making a literal Adam and Eve quite unlikely. But the Bible has a very accurate and precise accounting of the ancestry of well-known families including Jesus back to one set of parents–Adam, Eve. The New Testament writers also support and quote from these ancient prophets. (See Genesis...
Three months later on Christmas Eve, I sat with her in the hospital. She was dying and I was praying that God would let her sleep. She fell asleep in Jesus while I was on my way home. These words came to my mind as I looked forward to seeing her again, ...