He was “messing” with their way of living. Encroaching on their “turf.” (Believe it or not, ministers can become very territorial!) Upsetting the people in general, and maybe attracting too much attention from the Romans garrisoned there. Israel was, you may recall, an occupied country...
The Hebrew word for the soul, as shown in Genesis 2:7 KJV above, isnep̄eš. It literally means“that which breaths.”This is our identity. We are a creation of God “that breathes.” Most of the other translations use the phrase “living being” as opposed to the often confusing ...
Moral indifference; culpable and weak and fatal. And is it anything nobler, if you transfer it to God, and say that it is all the same to Him whether a man is living the life of a hog, and forgetting all that is high and noble, or whether he is pressing with all his strength tow...
(Acts 4:13). Peter is well known for his declaration of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, to which Jesus responded, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will ...